Locked and Loaded by Grant Alexis

Author:Grant, Alexis [Grant, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-01-03T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

She’d slept like the dead and woken up with a slight headache, but within a few moments of awareness, the prior night came flooding back to her, making her smile.

Thrusting herself out of bed, she saw no way to avoid the inevitable. Roberto would be back within the next twenty-four to forty-eight hours, and she had to steel herself for that eventuality. He hadn’t taken her sleepy rebuff very well, especially when she’d feigned nodding off in the midst of his crude attempt at phone sex. The process took some linguistic dexterity that the man didn’t own, not because he was unintelligent, but because he was unimaginative and, worse yet, selfish. So a megalomaniac wouldn’t know what kinds of imagery got a woman off. More important, he had never bothered to learn what got her off, and it was very obvious that he didn’t care.

Regardless, it didn’t matter. He wasn’t her lover, even if he was temporarily her problem. Salazar could tell the boys in prison to fuck him and suck him, because where he was going, he was going to have to use plenty of imagination to do his hard time.

She tightened the sash on the white, terry hotel robe she’d slept in as she crossed the room, and then froze when she saw two coffee cups. Bad move. Hurrying over to them, she quickly collected the mugs and rinsed them out, and returned one dry one to where it had been. Mistakes like that could cost lives. Damn. She had to get her head back in the game.

Checking her damp blouse in the bathroom, she used the hair dryer to finish the job on it, as well as on her bra, panties, and pants that she’d hand-washed in the sink the night before. Then she quickly stashed it in a hotel laundry bag and tagged it for housekeeping. At least half of her brain was still working.

Rushing back into the bedroom, she checked her cell phone again. Good. No news was good news.

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