Want It by Jennifer Chance

Author:Jennifer Chance [Chance, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Suspense
ISBN: 9780553392272
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Goodreads: 22676320
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2014-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Erin settled into their booth, keeping her eyes on the beer in front of her, on the baseball game on the television mounted above the bar, on the wildly colored banners fluttering in the open-air café’s breeze. On anything but Zander, even though he wasn’t focusing on her, but on his own beer and the enormous pile of nachos he and Rey Torres were plowing through like it was their last meal. It was almost seven o’clock in the evening, and she and Zander had finally made it down for dinner. They’d seen Rey in the bar almost immediately upon entering the hotel lobby once again, and the rangy, grinning man had instantly waved them over.

She and Zander had moved from the bed to the impossibly small shower-tub combination without breaking stride, it seemed, her body ready for round two, as if she were seventeen all over again and just learning about sex for the first time. He’d been her first, and so patient, so sweet, she’d just assumed he’d had sex with a hundred girls before her. Not true, he’d insisted, but she hadn’t asked for any more clarification. Now, all she could think about was how many there’d been after her. It’d been four years, after all. Four long and lonely years.

She wondered if he’d ever thought about her that way, while he’d been gone. His intensity and focus since they’d come together again had been gratifying, but did it mean he’d really…missed her? Or was this all just some adrenaline-soaked trip down memory lane?

Rey said her name, and Erin focused on their driver, giving him an apologetic smile. “I’m sorry, say that again?”

“Just making sure your mother never gave you a name or any information about her captors—anything at all?”

“Nothing.” Erin shook her head. Zander had asked her this, too, of course, but she hadn’t had anything for him, either. “I know it’s a guy, and I think he has at least one other guy in on it. But there may be more. The man I talked to can speak English pretty well, but he definitely has a Mexican accent. I mean, I don’t think they’re Americans.”

“I think you’re right,” Rey agreed. “But these men, they gotta be small-time. Nobody’s talking about this kidnapping—and they would be, if these guys were part of a larger organization. Best I can guess, Erin’s parents were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Which is pretty much three-fourths of the city these days, sad to say. They said something, did something, disrespected, and pop. They’re lucky they didn’t just get shot for their troubles.” He shook his head, taking a long pull on his beer. “You’re doing the exchange tomorrow, yes?” he asked as he set down his bottle. At Zander’s nod, he grinned. “I will join you, then. Just to watch.”

Erin glanced up. “I don’t want to put you in any danger,” she said, but Rey cut her off.

“You won’t,” he said, flashing a grin. “I like my own skin too much for that.

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