The Con (Men Who Thrill Book 4) by Blue Kaye

Author:Blue, Kaye [Blue, Kaye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Interracial Romantic Suspense
Published: 2015-03-31T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

I didn’t see her again until Monday night’s shift, but the memory of being with her had been my constant companion after I’d left her.

At work, she was the same as she always was, and when I brushed my knuckles against hers, she looked at me with sharp reprimand, but underneath I could see the softness.

If I had any doubt before, it was gone. She trusted me completely.

I should have been ecstatic, and I was, mostly, but I couldn’t shake that nagging feeling of wrongness. It was stupid, ridiculous even, but I couldn’t deny that this, that I, would change her forever. I’d taken something that she could never get back, and as much as I was committed to pulling this job off, as impossible as it was for me to be deterred, I couldn’t pretend that she would escape this without consequence just like I couldn’t pretend that I didn’t care.

“Would you wait here?” she asked about halfway through our shift. “I need a break.”

I nodded and leaned against the cart, waiting.

When Ruby had rounded the corner, presumably headed toward the ladies’ room, Daniel materialized as if out of nowhere.

I stood straight and glared at him.

“I know,” he said, “but I found out that the schematics are still here and they are in that locked room, box 368. You any closer to getting the key?”

I narrowed my eyes at Daniel, frustrated and annoyed, but answered anyway. “The key is in hand. She trusts me now, and I can get it from her,” I said quietly.

“Wow. I’m kind of impressed. I didn’t think you had a chance.”

“I’m very good at what I do,” I said. “And it was easy enough. I just threw her a bone and waited.”

“Threw her a bone,” Daniel said, snickering.

His laughter died when I stepped closer, and being smart for once, he nodded and left quickly.

Something about his tone had annoyed the shit out of me. Which was ridiculous. This had been my idea, and the plan was working to perfection. Still, hearing his sniveling little voice, listening to his innuendo about me and Ruby was fucking irksome.

She returned a moment later, and then gifted me with a smile that was clear and bright with her affection. “Okay, we can finish up,” she said softly, that smile still on her face.

I smiled back, my heart lifting at the sight of her. And then I remembered why I was here, what I was doing to her, and I felt a millimeter tall.

∞ ∞ ∞ ∞

“What are you listening to?” I asked later that night.

“It’s nothing,” she said.

“You seem to like it a lot for it to be nothing,” I responded.

She moved to the left, grabbing the trash cans lined in a row as I worked at the right, both of us falling into the easy pattern that we had developed over the time we’d spent together.

“It’s silly,” she said when she returned, not glancing in my direction, that reserve and shyness that she sometimes still showed flaring up.

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