Trust Me by Author

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Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

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T HEY BOTH SLEPT until late in the morning, the sunshine filtering through the curtained windows. Luke awoke, and she lay next to him, watching him.

“Shouldn’t have,” she said, but she offered a shy smile. He saw what he thought was regret in her eyes. She blinked it away, as if she knew it lingered, and gave him a warm kiss on the mouth, followed by a chaste kiss on the forehead. She kept her hand on his flat stomach. “But I’m not sorry that we did.”

“Shouldn’t, couldn’t, wouldn’t,” he said. “I have no regrets either.”

“You’re a good guy.”

“So are you. Not a guy. But good.” He had never been deft at the morning-after chatter, and he saw he wasn’t improving now. He felt a pang of regret, because this was going to change or complicate an already tough situation between them. He couldn’t deal with another problem. But if he was going into battle, he wanted her: a smart and brave partner.

“Are you all right?” she asked.

“Yes. You?”

“I’m sad for Eric. I can’t help but feel that way.”

He said nothing.

“But we… we can get out of this mess,” she said. “Get our lives back.”

“If we find who he made the deal with, where he hid the money.”

“Where do we start?”

“We start with his cell phone.” He opened up the phone he’d taken from Eric’s pocket, searched the call log. Aubrey leaned over his shoulder. There was only one number listed on the log. An international number.

“I know that international code is France,” Aubrey said. “Eric and I went to Paris a couple of months back. He had business and I’d never been.”

“Business,” he said. “What kind?”

“Banking stuff, I don’t know.”

Luke pressed the callback option under the number.

“Um, is that smart?”

“Let’s see,” Luke said.

Four rings, and then: “Hello?”

He recognized the British woman’s voice. “Hello, Jane,” Luke said.

She didn’t seem shocked at the use of her name. “This isn’t who I was expecting.”

“No. Eric Lindoe’s dead.”

“Sad. I thought he’d make it through the weekend, at least. Let me guess. Luke Dantry, running man?”

“Why did you want me kidnapped? Why have you involved innocent people?”

“Nothing personal, darling,” she said.

“It’s personal,” Luke said. “Why did you do it? What did I or Aubrey ever do to you?”

“Nothing. Hence, not personal.” Her voice was cool, crisp as breeze caught in linen. “You’re not going to find me. You can’t hurt me.”

“I have a question for you. You knew about the fifty million. So who’s giving it to the Night Road? Where’s this money coming from?”

“Some secrets, sweetheart, go to the grave. My lips are sealed.”

“This fifty million you want so badly? I’m going to find it before you do.”

“That, darling, I seriously doubt.” Then he heard a click, Jane hanging up.

He tried the number again. No response. “Why would a British woman in Paris be using us as pawns?”

“Arguing with her wasn’t exactly productive.”

“Aubrey, this woman isn’t going to negotiate with us. Not until we find where he hid the money. Only then could we maybe lure her into the light.

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