Undercover Encounter by York Rebecca

Author:York, Rebecca [York, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-04-01T14:06:20+00:00

FEAR ROSE IN HER THROAT and she jerked around expecting to see Gaspard’s fierce visage. But it was Pam who had just come from the direction of the kitchen.

“No,” she mouthed.

“But…”

The restraining hand tightened on her arm. “Stay out of it,” Pam murmured, pulling her into a room that looked like a private lounge.

“What’s going on?”

Pam spoke in a low voice. “You heard. It’s, you know, one of the guys who comes here because the house can provide him with tender young flesh.”

“What guys?”

“Some of them are important men in town. It’s better if you don’t know too much about it.”

“Okay then, what girls?”

When the other woman spoke again, her voice was tight. “You know. Runaways. Kids who come to the city because they have nowhere else to go. Gaspard trolls for them. He makes friends with the pretty ones and offers to find them a place to stay. Some of them fall for it.”

“Not any of the women I met at breakfast.”

“Well, some of them came from that part of the operation. They’ve grown up fast and joined our group. We don’t have too much contact with the others. They stay in another part of the house.”

Gillian looked back over her shoulder at the closed door, trying to imagine that other part of the house, and felt her chest tighten. One of the girls had apparently escaped this morning. But she wasn’t going to mention that to Pam since she’d have to admit she’d been eavesdropping. “Grown men, forcing themselves on teenagers. That’s…that’s immoral.”

Pam sighed. “If you were one of those churchgoing busybodies, you could say that everything that happens here is immoral.”

“But we came here by choice. Those girls didn’t,” Gillian answered.

Pam gave her an unsettling look. “I don’t know about you, but my choices were limited.”

Gillian might have pursued that line of discussion, but the previous one was more pressing. “Is there anything we can do to help those girls?”

Pam gave her a considering look. Then her features firmed. “What—do you want to get in trouble with Gaspard? Or didn’t you get enough of him a few minutes ago?”

Gillian nodded, thinking that it would be dangerous to risk another run-in with the man who owned this house. And dangerous to exchange too much information with Pam. As for Gaspard, she hadn’t even known about him before she came here. She’d bet that New Orleans Confidential hadn’t, either, since Alex had been pretty thorough in his briefings.

“Who is he?” she asked, hoping she could get more information out of Pam. Without giving too much away.

“Like I said, he owns this place. Or—he’s working for someone else.”

“Who?”

Pam tipped her head to one side, regarding her for sev eral seconds. “If you haven’t figured it out for yourself, I’ll give you a piece of advice. It’s not healthy to ask a bunch of questions. Just do your job and keep your mouth shut.”

Gillian felt the hairs on the back of her neck prickle. Last night and this morning, she’d gotten a couple of pointers on the dangers of the McDonough Club.

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