Luke's Touch (Walker Security: Lucifer's Trilogy Book 2) by Lisa Renee Jones

Author:Lisa Renee Jones [Jones, Lisa Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Julie Patra Publishing
Published: 2022-06-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Luke

I down a gulp of my beer.

“After seeing you with her, and her with you, I can tell you that’s bullshit. I assume she didn’t like what you had to say about Kurt because he was obviously on your mind when you went looking for her.”

“Not even slightly.” I set my bottle down. “But damn it, Kurt made big money, and neither she nor Kasey properly inherited.”

“Define properly.”

“Hers is tied up for years. Kasey was left the ranch but had no money to operate the business. Where’s Kurt’s fortune? And what kind of nasty people was he in bed with? Ana wants to believe this is all about one package on one dreaded day. I don’t think it’s that simple.”

“Which is why you have Blake looking into Kurt.”

“Exactly. She’s not even trying to see the truth. And there’s a truth there, a dirty one. I keep thinking Kasey, for all his shittiness, inherited whatever that dirt was from Kurt. Or maybe he dragged him into it. Whatever the case, I can’t end this by cutting off a tail. I have to cut off the head of the beast.”

“Agreed. So, what are you thinking?”

“I need a damn computer, which I don’t have, to do some digging.”

“Blake’s doing that for you. And he’s the best of the best. We both need to rest. We have five days until we meet up with the tail of the beast at Ana’s property. We won’t find the head if we are both sleepwalking.”

He’s right. I know he’s right. “I need to take a jog.” I run my hand through my hair. “And yes, I know that’s not possible. Is there a damn treadmill or something around here?”

“There’s a basement bedroom next to an exercise room.”

“That’s my spot. I’m going to call Blake and then I’ll just sleep down there.”

“You sure that’s what you want to do?”

“Me and Ana are like oil and fire right now and we’re either going to burn each other up or drown in the sludge of it all. She needs some space and so do I.”

“You had two years of space, Lucifer. Consider that might not be the answer.”

“I’ll consider when I have some sleep.” I push to my feet and head for the gym, trekking a path downstairs.

Once I’m down in the finished basement, I slip in my earbuds, step on the treadmill, and dial Blake. “Tell me you know something,” I say when he answers.

“Man, you gotta give me two fucking seconds. I’m working on it and I’ve got a couple of our guys working on it.”

“In other words, you can’t find shit.”

“I really can’t,” he says, “not yet, but I will.”

I stop the treadmill. “What does that mean?”

“It means someone made Kurt’s financial records disappear, and before you say anything, the man trained assassins for the government. I don’t see this as unusual.”

“But Kasey took that business over.”

“And everything to do with that business is wiped out. I can see Kasey’s personal accounts. They’re sparse.”

Which is why he was running side jobs, I think.

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