Harlequin Presents October 2018--Box Set 2 of 2 by Miranda Lee

Author:Miranda Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

WHAT IN THE world was Carl Madison doing here and why was he berating Baz? Had Randi’s temporary lover already instigated talks on her behalf with the awful man?

And why did he think he could call Basilio by the more familiar nickname, Baz?

“Carl, what the hell are you doing here?” Baz asked with undisguised fury.

So, not friends, then, but they were on a first-name basis. How did that work? What was going on? Why would Mr. Madison have come to Baz’s penthouse?

“If you answered your damn phone I would not have had to track you down,” Mr. Madison said, sounding both annoyed and aggrieved. “That bitch is going to do that interview in two weeks. The station is already doing internet promotion for the spot, alluding to a brand-new revelation of document-supported facts. What are you doing about it?”

“Hell, Carlos. Eres un idiota!” Baz lunged away from Randi toward the man he’d just called Carlos. Not Carl. He grabbed Mr. Madison by the lapels of his jacket and jerked him forward. “No usarás un lenguaje como ese sobre o alrededor de Miranda.”

Baz’s explosion into motion had shocked her, but the fury in his tone as he demanded the other man not use that kind of language about or around her made her feel a little better in a situation she did not understand.

“Speak English.” Mr. Madison was trying to break Baz’s hold on his jacket to no avail. “You’re in America, little brother.”

“Little brother?” Randi asked, absolutely not wanting to believe the implication of what she was hearing, but unable to ignore the evidence of her eyes and ears.

Mr. Madison jerked at the sound of her voice, looking past his brother to meet Randi’s bewildered gaze. Surprise and consternation crossed his face before it settled into lines of straight-out annoyance.

“Oh, hell. Why did you bring her here?” Mr. Madison demanded as Baz moved to block the older man’s line of sight to her. “I guess it’s out of the bag now. Not that you were making progress.” Oh, the disgust just dripped from Carl Madison’s voice.

But progress? What exactly was out of the bag? Randi gave herself a mental shake, reminding herself she was no doe-eyed optimist. If it walked like a duck, it was going to quack.

Basilio Perez was Carl…no, Carlos Madison’s brother. All the clues had been there. The siblings whose mother had taken them to raise in another country, even giving them the last name of her second husband. Carl Madison had been born Carlos Perez.

And he was a member of the family Baz had been so clear he owed all his loyalty to, one of the people Baz had made it clear he was willing to be downright merciless on behalf of.

Never had Randi been so tempted to use a certain four-letter expletive. Not even when the toe-rag trying to peer around his brother to glare at her had hit and threatened her.

“All of this was about you convincing me not to do the interview,” she accused Baz’s back.

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