Locked, Loaded, & Lying by Sarah Andre

Author:Sarah Andre [Andre, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled;Select Suspense;romance;Locked Loaded & Lying;Sarah Andre;Olympic skier;sports;murder trial;blackmail
ISBN: 9781943336418
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Goodreads: 25605305
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-06-15T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

At eleven that night, Leo handed Jordan a stack of papers. “The reverse lookups for Tiffany’s phone.”

He looked gray and exhausted, and she thanked him sincerely. “I’m sorry we keep taking you away from your editing.”

“Whatever my brother needs.” He said this without glancing over at Lock in the club chair, which was weird, but not for them. “Although I’ll probably beg off going to Aspen with you guys tomorrow.”

Oddly, Lock’s face brightened.

Leo handed her some pain pills and watched carefully as she swallowed them and drank all the water. Bidding them goodnight, he headed upstairs, his limp more pronounced than usual.

Jordan turned to Lock, pen poised and heart giddy. Even after crashing her car, having no phone charger, and Lock’s innate suspicion of her reporter side, she’d finally triumphed. The picture she’d snapped as he’d left to get a beer was perfect. Quickly emailing it to the Starr News address Rebecca had texted earlier, she’d included her own text:

Here’s proof. Require immediate $200K deposit before article. Explosive details. Text for wire transfer instructions.

No response from the tabloid editor as yet, but just to be safe, she’d take an additional shot tonight, hopefully while Lock slept. She ignored the flash of self-hatred at selling him out; he was already off the team. And she wasn’t part of his life. There wasn’t a connection between them other than physical attraction—no denying that, but no way would she act on it and become just another “I-did-her” chick he’d soon forget.

So it all worked. Her mother would be safe as soon as the money was wired.

With a fresh burst of confidence, she leaned forward, unable to resist a completely none-of-her-business question. “All the bickering between you and Leo…what’s under all that?”

“You must not have brothers. This is perfectly normal.”

She paused, unconvinced, and went at it from a different angle. “He has a degree in medicine. Why is he a crime writer?”

“You’ll have to ask him.”

Something in the way he glanced away raised her suspicion. “I’m asking you.”

He pressed his lips, and she folded her arms, determined to get an answer. She didn’t care how long it took, since this deadlock of wills allowed her to stare openly at him and that whole badass factor he had going on.

God, he was crazy handsome in this romantic firelight: the stubbornness in his hard jaw, the insolent set of his mouth, those smoldering eyes. His magnetism mainlined straight into her veins, searing her insides.

Unfortunately, he broke the stalemate with a resigned sigh. “Leo wanted to be an ER doc even back when we were kids. After med school, he did a rotation with an EMS crew, and they went out on a call one night in the middle of an ice storm. They picked up a boy, about six…He’d been running with scissors and fell on them.” He poked himself just below the heart. “Leo was in back, helping stabilize the boy when the van slipped off the road. Rolled down a ravine.”

“Oh my God,” she whispered.

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