Murder Girl by Lisa Renee Jones

Author:Lisa Renee Jones [Jones, Lisa Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781503902619
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2018-07-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

I round the island, grab my half-eaten slice of pizza and piece of cookie, and toss them in the trash, then set my coffee cup in the sink. By the time I’m back at the island, Kane is entering the kitchen. He saunters toward me, all dark good looks with a touch of the criminal I just denied him to be radiating from him. Fuck. He must have heard me defending him. He steps to the counter directly in front of me. I press my hands to the counter. “Of all the people I have stalking me right now, you are the worst.”

He mimics my position, pressing his hands to the counter as well. “Am I?”

“Yes. You are.”

His lips curve, eyes alight with amusement, not regret. Bastard. “Your pretty boy, Rich, was a perfect gentleman today,” he says. “Seems he’s been disciplined by Agent Love.”

“This spoken by a man who still has the imprint of my fingers on his right cheek.”

“If that was your attempt to discipline me, I was playing the wrong game. But I’m here now. Give it a go again.”

“Don’t tempt me, Kane. I’m still furious with you for drugging me. And how did you get in here?”

“It wasn’t locked and the bar wasn’t in place.”

“Bullshit.”

“It wasn’t locked, Lilah, and I checked it before I left this morning. You haven’t used it?”

“Fuck. No. I haven’t, which means someone’s been in here again.”

His brow lifts. “Again? What the hell does that mean?”

“I have it handled.”

“We do this together, Lilah. We agreed.”

“Together means together, Kane. Not you charging forward and dragging me along.”

“Just dragging you to my side, beautiful, instead of letting you run ahead of me. What the hell does ‘again’ mean?”

“I’m not running from you, Kane, which we both know was your inference. And to answer your question, one of the first notes was left on my desk upstairs.”

“Which means Junior saw your investigation notes.”

“And you know this because you looked at my investigation notes.”

“Yes. I did. Don’t expect guilt. I prefer my dirty emotions to include you naked. Otherwise, I don’t waste the energy. I assume since you’re you, you’ve checked the house and it’s clear?”

“I did, but obviously I need a new security system.”

“I’m your new security system. Have you received any more notes?”

“You are not my security system, and no, I have not, which brings us back to you and your protection. Obviously, Junior knows I’m being watched. We can’t catch whoever this is if your person is breathing down my throat.”

“There are too many dead bodies for me to back off, Lilah. And whoever this is won’t stay hidden long. They have an objective.”

“Maybe it was to scare me off.” My brow furrows. “Unless . . .”

“Unless?” he prods.

“If the murders in LA were meant to bring me here, and Junior seems to be driving me away, then Junior isn’t the same person.”

“Possibly, though Junior could simply be taunting you with a bigger endgame.”

“Taunt me and then kill me?”

“Or taunt me and then kill you.

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