Brody by Emma Lang

Author:Emma Lang
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2012-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

Brody paced the small room, his boots too loud in the eerie quiet that had fallen over Lucinda’s building. The entire town seemed to take their siesta seriously. Olivia stood at the window, staring out onto the deserted street.

He needed to make a deal with Lucinda and find out exactly who her buyers were. Or at least enough information to track down Benjy Graham and the rest of the missing folks. He had to keep reminding himself that he wasn’t there just for Olivia. Although, she bossed him around enough one would think he was.

Brody expected some dark people to enter his life, but he hadn’t expected her. This situation had gotten so far out of hand now, he didn’t know how to stop it, or save them. He knew they were risking their lives, knew they were helpless and at the whim of a Mexican outlaw. A loco one at that. The man whored his sister, for God’s sake.

It chilled him to see just how little Rodrigo valued except for himself and the profit he could make. Brody suspected the buyer he was looking for was actually Rodrigo. The man delighted in playing word games and spinning things around until he made his opponents dizzy. Brody knew he was dangerous but didn’t think he’d seen the full extent of the threat just yet.

“What do we do now?” Olivia asked in a hushed voice. She turned to look at him, her beautiful blue-green eyes full of worry and fear. It was probably the first time he’d seen that particular emotion from the prickly rancher’s daughter and he didn’t like it. She needed fire and sass there, not fear. The weight of their situation weighed even more heavily on him.

“We wait. We are in their world now, Liv. If we go snooping around here, our bodies will never be found.” He didn’t want to be anything but frank with her now. There was too much at stake to tell half-truths.

She blinked rapidly but she didn’t flinch. “What do they do with the bodies?”

He didn’t expect the question. “Leave them for the vultures and critters probably.”

This time she did flinch. “Tell me what Elena said to you back in Forgata. Now.” Her normally demanding voice had shrunk to a shaky whisper.

Brody sat on the bed and patted the spot next to him. “Sit down and I’ll tell you.”

With reluctance in her step, she sat down beside him and crossed her arms. She might just as well have put up no trespassing signs.

“She recognized you. Well, your eyes anyway.”

Her expression exploded and the arms fell away. “She’s seen Benjy.”

He winced at the hope in her voice. “Yes, she said he’d been through here months earlier. He’d been difficult and kept calling for your mother and Eva. She said they’d taken him away with the others, but she remembered him. And she knew why you had come.”

“He was alive then, at least.” She pressed her hands to her eyes, her fingers trembling. “Is it good or bad that she recognized me?”

“Both I suppose.

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