Icy Heat by Leigh Wyndfield

Author:Leigh Wyndfield
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic SciFi-Futuristic, Red Hots!, Romantic SciFi-Futuristic, Red Hots!

Icy Heat

Why was he here? Her heart pounded and her mouth went dry. Could he have forgiven her for lying? Was he here to accept her apology? “War.” She tried to think of something intelligent to say, but was at a loss for words.

“Aidan.” Once again, no emotion came through in his voice.

She wanted to rip the mask from his face and see him. Instead, she searched his icy gaze. “I didn’t consider you’d be looking for me after…” She let the rest hang in the air between them.

His eyes narrowed and the grip of his hands tightened. “The globe is full of synthetic ganderen spice.”

She felt her mouth drop open and hastily closed it. The mystery of what was in the globe was solved. It left her speechless, her mind too overloaded to think clearly.

Ganderen was impossible to duplicate.

Before she could reply, he said, “I want to make a deal with you.”

“Deal?” Her body went on full alert. He didn’t want her. He wanted a business arrangement. She choked back a sob. He hadn’t returned to accept her apology.

“I’ll get your brother out of Balten’s dungeons and you give me the globe.”

She blinked. Why would he want synthetic ganderen spice? “You want to sell it?”

He laughed, a sharp bark without humor. “Not hardly. I plan to give it to a friend of mine at the Inter-world Council. They’ll be interested to know Balten’s labs have developed something which had been considered impossible to duplicate. The Council will be all over him. He’ll have to shut down his illegal operations until the investigation is completed. Balten will lose profits and anger his customers. That will be the perfect time for me to exact my revenge.”

He didn’t want her. He wanted vengeance. She was such a fool to think he’d forgive her. His whole life had been built around Balten, why would he change after only days with her?

Warwick went on, his eyes sparkling with his plans. “If Balten sells the synthetic ganderen spice, it will end up as one of the most popular drugs of all time, especially if he www.samhainpublishing.com 89

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plans to lower the price far below the real thing. He can already taste that money, maybe even has counted on it. Just keeping the globe from him would be a serious blow.”

Something niggled at the back of her mind. “Did they know that the globe was missing before you left?” Her unfocused mind sharpened. “If you know what’s inside, you had to hear Balten talk about it.”

War nodded. “That’s what Balten came for. He wants his globe back. There was a fire in his lab and this is the only sample he has left.”

“Gods.”

That meant Balten needed this globe badly enough for him to show up at Reed’s to demand it back. Pieces began to fall into place. The stakes had just risen dramatically.

“But—” She shook her head, trying to sort through all the data. “But did they know the globe was missing when you left?”

“Yes.” He could have been a talking stone for all the emotion he held in his voice.

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