Left to Crave by Blake Pierce

Author:Blake Pierce [Pierce, Blake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blake Pierce
Published: 2022-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Agent Paige wasn't accustomed to sitting in the passenger seat. And yet she could tell Adele was tense. The younger woman had been acting oddly ever since the incident outside the furniture store. She had put herself in front of the car on purpose. Paige had seen it with her own eyes.

She had always known Adele was reckless as they had worked cases before. While Paige like to follow the rules, to stay by the book, Adele often seemed to find her own interpretation for long-held agency protocol.

But Agent Paige could sense something out of the ordinary was off with the younger women. They had never seen eye to eye, but this was different; she shot a look towards the driver side, where Adele was following the final directions of the GPS to pull them into the multistory parking lot outside the auction house in Madrid.

The antique store was at the top of an industrial building. Adele pulled into the parking lot, circling the ramps, taking them higher; she refused to look at Sophie. This had never been the case before.

Adele had always been defiant, rebellious, confrontational sometimes. But now she was avoiding it entirely. As if, somehow, she were ashamed. Ashamed of what, though? Paige frowned in thought.

Adele pulled into a parking spot, coming to a quick, jolting halt.

Paige got out of the car, following Adele towards the sliding glass entrance at the top of the old industrial building. On the side of the glass doors, she spotted golden lettering, marking the various offices that occupied the space.

Adele took the lead, entering through the glass doors and emerging on the top floor of the industrial complex that housed Casa de Subastas.

Adele didn't push through the door, however, but instead glanced at the brown and gold placard next to the door, designating the other office spaces with numbers. Agent Paige frowned as Adele passed the auction house, and started moving down the hall, towards the back of the industrial building.

Adele took a left turn, heading towards another door, set in the furthest wall, and now Agent Paige realized what she was up to.

A door centered the wall, marked by a sign that read shipping.

Adele and Agent Paige pushed through the dusty and unobtrusive entrance, like the back door at a grocery store.

Now, as they entered the shipping area of the auction house, a faint scent of dust lingered on the air. Agent Paige caught a sneeze, holding a hand to her face. All around them, there were boxes. A few figures were moving through shelf spaces, one of them holding a red label maker, another a clipboard, marking down entries as they followed from box to box.

Another figure, taller, with a severe face like a librarian, was shaking her head, a brown bun swishing back and forth. "No," the woman was saying in accented English. She was blonde, with pale features, suggesting perhaps a northern European descent. The employees she spoke to looked local with swarthy features and dark hair.

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