Midnight Jewels by Jayne Ann Krentz

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780786209095
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1987-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Isobel Ascanius stood at the window and watched Croft and Mercy walk back into the compound. She saw Falconer halt for a moment and pause to brush some bits of grass and dried leaves from Mercy’s hair. It didn’t take much imagination to know that at some point during the morning walk Mercy had found herself lying on her back in a mountain meadow. Isobel found herself feeling strangely envious.

She couldn’t remember the last time a man had made love to her in the grass under a sunny sky. Isobel maintained a carefully groomed appearance of exoticism. Hers was a beautiful, cool, sensually challenging facade that never failed to attract and compel. She required her lovers to be skillful and sophisticated. Her image was clearly not that of a woman who would tolerate a simple tumble in the grass. Few men would dare to suggest it. She couldn’t even begin to imagine Erasmus Gladstone suggesting such a thing, for example. Gladstone was an accomplished lover, but sometimes he repelled her. His passion was cold and mechanical, satisfying but never fulfilling.

Isobel told herself that Gladstone’s emotionless lovemaking was sufficient. Sex was a low priority on her personal list of needs and desires. She took her real pleasure in knowing that Gladstone respected her skills as a professional security consultant and bodyguard and she planned to impress him with her abilities as a strategist. She would find ways to convince him he needed her.

She had started working for Gladstone because she sensed that he would one day be powerful enough to promote her into the level of power she craved. Someday she, too, would be the head of a lucrative network based on providing the titillating, illegal products demanded by a spoiled, egocentric, shortsighted clientele. She would be rich beyond her wildest dreams, a woman with the power of life and death over others. Her goals were clear and shining; and she would not abandon them.

But as she watched Mercy returning to the house, Isobel found herself wondering what it had been like out there in the meadow with Croft Falconer.

“Everything is under control for tonight?” Erasmus asked from behind her.

“Of course. You’re certain it’s necessary to get rid of Falconer?”

“Better to be safe than sorry,” Gladstone murmured. “On the surface he is nothing more than a very ordinary, very uninteresting man. The perfect lover for our dull little Miss Pennington, I imagine. But something about him bothers me. He moves very well, have you noticed?”

Isobel glanced out the window again. “I’ve noticed.”

“I don’t like the fact that things went wrong that first night at the motel. Somehow Falconer got the book out of the safe before Dallas could get it. And I don’t like the fact that you discovered Falconer and Mercy in the garden last night. Too close to the vault. But most of all, I don’t like the fact that you haven’t been able to trace Falconer.”

“I know,” Isobel agreed quietly. “I should have been able to find out more about him by now.

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