Blood Bound (Book 1) by Vincent Rachel

Author:Vincent, Rachel [Vincent, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9781459211773
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2011-08-23T07:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

My phone rang in the dark, interrupting my first sleep since I’d been called out for Rawlinson’s job at two the previous morning. I glanced at Cam’s alarm clock, glowing red from his nightstand. Eleven o’clock at night. Shen had been dead twenty-seven hours. I’d been asleep for three.

My nap was just a tease, and I knew before I even glanced at my phone that it was over.

Groaning, I twisted away from Cam to free my good arm, then reached toward the nightstand to unplug my cell from the travel charger. Cavazos’s private number flashed on the screen.

Son of a bitch… What the hell did he want?

“Don’t answer it,” Cam mumbled, trailing one finger down my arm as I turned on the lamp. “You’ve earned a nap. Hell, you’ve earned a coma.”

“No choice.” When Cavazos called, I had to answer. I sat up, and Cam’s warm arm wrapped around my bare waist. “Can you…not talk?” I turned to give him an apologetic smile, and he nodded. But he wasn’t happy.

I pressed the accept-call button, and Cavazos was talking before I even had the phone at my ear. “What are you doing, Olivia?” He was pissed. I could tell by how smooth and low his voice was—the calm before the storm.

“Working.”

“You’re working? Right this minute? Getting paid?” he said, and my internal alarm sputtered to life and tried to wail.

“Yes.” I knew the lie was a bad idea even as I said it, but no matter what he thought or wanted, Cavazos didn’t rule my life, and he had no right to monitor every second of it.

Then the pain hit, right behind my eyes, and the room wobbled around me. And that’s when I understood. We’d found and disposed of Shen’s killer. My job for Anne was technically finished, and since she hadn’t paid a new retainer, I was no longer officially working for her.

I hadn’t just lied, I’d lied about my state of employment, a minor breach of my contract with Cavazos.

Shit, shit, shit!

“If you’re getting paid for whatever you’re doing with Caballero, you’ve expanded your services since our agreement,” he said, and my heart dropped into my stomach with an almost-audible plop.

He knew I was with Cam. Had one of his men seen us together?

I took a moment to weigh my options: feign ignorance, or unleash honest anger? I went with the best of both worlds: feigned angry ignorance.

“What the hell, Ruben?”

“Get dressed. There’s a car waiting for you downstairs. If you’re not in it in five minutes, I’m sending them in after you.”

Fuck. Fuck! He knew where we were. “You had me followed?”

“No, I had you tracked.”

Motherfucker! I stood and headed into the living room, in search of my clothes.

“What are you…?” Cam asked, standing naked in the doorway, but I silenced him with a look as I stepped into my underwear, the phone pinned against my shoulder, wincing at the fresh pain spawned in my arm by the movement.

“Is that him?” Cavazos said into my ear, sounding almost…eager.

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