Thrill Ride (Black Knights Inc.) by Walker Julie Ann

Author:Walker, Julie Ann [Walker, Julie Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2013-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

“They’re late,” Boss grumbled in the driver’s seat, checking his watch. They were sitting across the street from the green expanse of La Sabana Metropolitan Park where the Inter-American Highway led into downtown San Jose. The smell of tobacco from the nearby smoke shop filled the air coming in through Bill’s open passenger side window, competing with the more pungent aromas of the fish cart on the corner and dozens of car exhausts. But that didn’t distract him from the fact that, according to what Vanessa told them, they should’ve seen her and Rock blazing into town on the back of a dirt bike fifteen minutes ago. Bill already had his cell phone out before Boss finished with, “You need to call and tell your sister, so she can keep those damned spooks away from the house for a little longer.”

“On it,” he said, punching in Becky’s number and listening as his secure connection was made. After the first ring, Becky picked up with, “Holy shit! You’re never gonna believe where I am.”

“Becky—” he tried to interrupt her, but she just talked right over him.

“After one hell of a car chase…By the way, did you know Eve can drive like a Hollywood stuntman?”

“Huh?”

“Doesn’t matter,” she quickly went on. “The important thing is, I think the spooks were clueing-in to what we were doing, making them run after their own tails and all, because they started to back off. And that’s when Eve had a friggin’ epiphany. Guess what she did?” Before he could even open his mouth, his sister sailed ahead. “She decided we could kill two birds with one stone, and that brings me back to where I am. Which is standing in line at a seedy-as-hell sex shop watching Eve purchase a whorehouse’s worth of vibrators.”

“Huh?” Okay, so apparently his vocabulary had shrunk to that one word. And it might have something to do with the fact that his brains had ostensibly turned to mush. Just plain, gray mush. It was the only thing that could account for the fact that none of what Becky had just said made damned bit of sense. Hollywood stuntman? Sex shop? Eve?

“Oh, shit!” Becky breathed. “They’re coming in the door. I gotta go.”

And that was enough to joggle some sense back into his slushy cerebrum. “Beck—” But she’d already hung up on him. “Goddamnit!” He clenched his fists before once more dialing her number, grumbling to Boss as he listened impatiently to the click and beeps, “I don’t know how you put up with her. She is the most exasperat—”

“Save it,” Boss interjected. “Here they come.”

And, sure enough, when Bill leaned past Boss to glance out the driver’s side window, he spotted Rock and Vanessa barreling toward them on a loud, rusty dirt bike. And, even at a distance, it was easy to see they’d been through hell. From what he could make out, Vanessa’s hair was a wild rat’s nest, and Rock looked like he’d taken a bath in mud, the tattoos on the guy’s bare arms nearly obscured.

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