Owen (Undercover Billionaire Book 3) by Melody Anne

Author:Melody Anne [Anne, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-12-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Eden was nervous as she waited for Owen to climb inside his cab. She had nothing on him, but she’d learned long ago that if you acted as if you knew something, then sometimes people would panic and try to get their side of the story straight, giving up valuable information.

She was playing a cat-and-mouse game with somebody, and whether Owen realized it or not, there might be knowledge buried inside him that he didn’t understand was valuable. That often happened with people who were close to a crime. Their town was in danger, and someone out there had the answers that would stop the blaze.

“Is there anything you want to share with me?” Eden asked in a knowing voice, as if she already had the information and simply wanted him to confirm it. He started the truck but just sat there, leaving the engine idling.

“That trick doesn’t work on me,” he told her with a shrewd grin that had her teeth grinding together. Of course it wouldn’t work on him.

“I guess we have nothing to talk about then,” she said. She reached for her seat belt to undo it when he stopped her.

“Give me a minute,” he said. There was resignation in his voice that stopped her from leaving the truck. It appeared as if he was going to talk. Not because she’d fooled him, but maybe because he didn’t like that she didn’t trust him. That made her heart do a funny little twitch.

“I didn’t want to leave you ten years ago,” he began. There was such resignation in his voice that it was hard for her not to believe him.

“This fire and who started it doesn’t have anything to do with you leaving me ten years ago,” she pointed out.

“It might,” he said with another sigh, and her pulse pounded that much harder.

“About six months before I left town, I got into some trouble,” he began.

Eden searched her mind in confusion. She didn’t remember him getting into any trouble. Then again, he was a Forbes, and if he’d done something wrong, his family certainly had enough money to pay people off so nothing would stick, and no one would know. But that didn’t sound like his family. They weren’t the type of people to cover things up. It was one of the many things she respected about them.

“I kept it to myself because my dad and siblings would have kicked my ass if they knew,” he told her. “I was hanging out with this guy named Mario. He was an okay guy, or so I thought. He was dangerous, and I was trying to figure out exactly who I was outside of my family. I liked that he did crap that wasn’t always aboveboard. I liked that my adrenaline pumped with him.”

“Are you talking about Mario Vasquez?” she asked, horrified. He was a bad, bad man.

“Yeah, one and the same. We didn’t have a very long relationship, and I kept it from you and my family,” he told her.

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