Risk No Secrets by Cindy Gerard

Author:Cindy Gerard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Kidnapping, Terrorists, Single mothers, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Romantic suspense fiction, Man-woman relationships, Suspense, General
ISBN: 9781439153611
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2010-05-17T22:00:00+00:00

17

Stretched out on a pale blue velvet sofa that had probably

once graced some princess’s or queen’s sitting room,

Johnny Reed watched his wife as she stared out the

window of Juliana’s office.

He knew what she was looking at. Outside on the

terrace, Juliana and Nate were sharing high tea in delicate,

flowery china cups with a little girl who needed a bit of

fantasy in her life.

“It’s great that they’ve managed to make her smile.”

Crystal looked relieved as she turned back to the computer

and continued her search on Diego Montoya and Jorge

Vega.

“I know a way that you could make me smile.” He tilted

his head and grinned his best come-hither grin.

Her fingers continued to fly over the computer keys.

“That’s because you’re easy.”

“You say that like it’s a bad thing.”

She turned to look at him then, graced him with an

indulgent smile. “Darling man, right time, right place, it’s a

wonderful thing.” She kissed the air in his direction. “But for

now, put it on ice, lover boy. Speaking of ice, shouldn’t you

be icing that knee?”

“From lover to nursemaid in the blink of an eye. How did I

let this happen?”

“Just behave yourself—foreign concept, I know—and

read this, would you?” She pushed back in the chair and

stretched to hand him several pages that she’d printed

concerning Montoya. “See if you spot something I didn’t,

but for my money, Montoya looks clean.”

“The best bad guys usual y do,” he said on a grunt as he

started scanning the sheets. “What about Vega? Anything

on him?”

She shook her head and went back to the screen.

“Average Joe. Whistle-clean, except for his association

with the GN, al public, al aboveboard. I’m thinking he was

just a good guy trying to do a good thing and got kil ed for

his kindness.”

“Damn bad break.” What else was there to say? He felt

bad about Vega, yeah, but no one could help him now. “I

don’t like this Montoya,” he said after giving the printouts a

thorough once-over.

“You don’t like him for the kidnapping?”

“I just don’t like him. Period.”

“Because he’s richer than God?”

“No one should have that much money. Just like no one

general y acquires that much money on the straight and

narrow. Dig a little deeper, okay, babe?”

“Right after I get you an ice pack.” She rose, dropped a

kiss on his forehead, and walked out of the room.

“I’m the luckiest sonofabitch alive,” he announced to the

empty room as he watched his little redheaded Tinkerbel

walk through the doorway. Smart, sexy, funny, and, God

help her, he thought on a contented sigh, she loved him in

spite of what he’d come from, who he was, and who he’d

never be.

He’d never be Montoya, that’s for damn sure. He’d never

be rich. But he would, by God, love that woman until the day

he died.

Lucky man. Lucky, lucky man, he thought, hitching

himself up a little straighter on the sofa, keeping the groan

to a low moan when pain speared through his knee. Stupid

man, he admitted, propping a pil ow under the knee and

settling back to wait out the pain.

Stupid damn stunt. The BOIs were never going to let him

hear the end of a skateboard getting the best of him.

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