Passion by S.C. Principale

Author:S.C. Principale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, action adventure romance, femme fatale romance, secret agent romance, drug cartel, human trafficking, bad girl romance, enemies to lovers
Publisher: S.C. Principale
Published: 2023-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

“What? No, everything is very quiet. No one put a toe out of line. Yeah. Yes. I checked in and I put the money in the safe, put the fear of God into Leon, Juan, and the rest.”

“Good.”

Alfie wasn’t on speaker phone, probably so Medina couldn’t overhear any stray noises that would alert him to my presence. “Where do you want the stash moved?”

“Why move it?” Medina had a slick, arrogant voice that sounded sleepy or drugged (maybe both).

“Well, you live there. If the cops get a warrant to search—”

“Why would the cops get a warrant? You think the narcos bother Beltran-Leyva? You think they bother Los Zetas? Medina is better than all of them. Why? I’m never in the news, am I, Alfie? And I have a lot more reason to be. You know that, don’t you, hermano?”

Yep. Medina was holding the top spot on my “To-Kill” list. The mocking in his voice made my blood boil. Alfie stayed still and silent, but a muscle jumped in his jaw and the veins in neck and arms were rising like someone was inflating them. The use of the word hermano, brother, was such a sick slap in the face.

“But I’m sorry about that. I didn’t know you back then. I would have let you have her back.” A long, loud laugh that ended in a coughing fit gave me noise-cover enough to go over to Alfie, sliding behind him, wrapping my arms around him. I didn’t know how to comfort him, but I felt like I had to hold him together somehow. I could see Medina pulling all Alfie’s strings, plucking him apart like a crow with a half-dead animal. I laid my cheek to his head, just pressing into him.

Medina stopped coughing after a moment. His voice became brisk. “That reminds me. It’s almost the middle of the month. I shouldn’t have stayed away an extra day, but... Mm. Sometimes you have to pursue an opportunity. I’ll take care of the payments tomorrow, and we should be fine for weeks. Plenty of time to move product. Speaking of opportunities and new products, I hear you finally got yourself a playmate with some staying power. I’ve told you before, you can always get more out of a woman than you think. I hear she’s the real deal. Real pretty, real wasted, real hot.”

“Mhm.”

“Bring her by sometime. I wanna... meet her.”

I found myself flat on my back on the mattress, swallowing a gasp. Alfie was up, pacing next to the bed like a caged tiger as he retrieved his clothes from last night. “She’s out of town.”

“That’s okay. I think Sierra is waiting for me at the loft. I hope your present is just as nice.”

There was a long pause. I watched Alfie swallow several times until his voice finally came out smooth. “Her daddy is some high up guy. He’s connected with politicians.”

“So?”

“So... Don’t play too rough.”

“Are you telling me what to do?” Medina’s voice turned threatening and completely sober in a heartbeat.

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