Maybe Baby by Lani Diane Rich

Author:Lani Diane Rich [Rich, Lani Diane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780446615785
Google: 7WzvHAAACAAJ
Amazon: B0078W0PR6
Publisher: Warner Forever
Published: 2005-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

Fifteen

When Finn’s consciousness began to ebb back in, the first thing he noticed was a stiffness in his jaw. Then, the weight of his head, which felt heavier than usual. He pulled his chin up slowly from where it had been digging into his chest and groaned. He was sore as hell. He tried to reach up to rub it with his hand, but couldn’t move his arm. He opened his eyes and saw that his arm was duct-taped to something. He tried to move his other arm. No dice.

Yeah. That’s not good.

He felt something tugging on his ankles and raised his eyes. There was a woman with her head near his knees, who seemed to be the source of the ankle tugging. Hmmm. Maybe things weren’t so bad after all.

“He’s waking up.” A man’s voice cut through the fog in Finn’s brain. He blinked and raised his head higher. There was a tall guy, dark hair, wearing a leather jacket, standing about three feet away. Finn squinted. He remembered that leather jacket. It had come at him on the terrace, along with the fist that knocked him out.

“Hmmm?” The woman at Finn’s knees looked up, screamed, and jumped back. Finn groaned and squinched his eyes shut.

“Can I suggest a ‘no screaming’ rule?” he grunted. “Because getting knocked in the head gives you a hell of a hangover.”

The woman moved over next to Leather Man. Finn shifted around to try and see what he’d been taped to, fighting the shooting pains in his head as he moved. Looked to be an office chair. He raised his eyes back to the couple, who were staring at him. Leather Man had his arms crossed over his chest, giving a decent tough-guy impression, although the punch he’d landed on Finn had already accomplished that quite well, thankyouverymuch.

Finn gave a short chuckle. “There’s got to be a better way to earn a living, know what I mean?”

“Hi,” the woman said, smiling at him. “We’re really sorry about the head injury. You okay?”

Finn looked at her, and it occurred to him he’d seen her before. He took another long look at Leather Man.

“You were in the elevator,” he said.

“What?”

“Nothing.” This was definitely the couple he’d seen coming out of the elevator earlier that day when he’d cased the place. But his source said Mrs. McGregor lived alone.

Which meant these people didn’t belong here any more than he did.

“Fucking birds,” Finn grunted.

“I’m sorry?” the woman said.

“How the hell did you get to the bird before I did?” Finn wriggled against the bonds at his wrists and legs. They were tight. “Okay. Fine.” He pulled on a smile and looked up at his captors. “Look, the security system was hot when I got here, and the method I used bought me maybe fifteen minutes.” A lie. He’d disabled the system when he’d come in earlier that day. But a good the-cops-are-coming bluff was typically effective with the thieving crowd. “So let’s get the bird, get out, and talk about it somewhere else, what do you say?”

They stared at him blankly.

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