Sins, Lies & Spies (Black Brothers Series Book 2) by Lisa Cardiff

Author:Lisa Cardiff [Cardiff, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-02-08T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

Knox

I pulled into a parking place down the street from Trinity’s townhome, and I checked my phone. There were two messages from Archer, demanding I call him immediately.

“Hey, Archer. It’s me,” I said.

“Finally,” Archer growled. “I was about to file a missing person’s report. You haven’t returned my phone calls for a week.”

“Yeah. Yeah,” I said, feeling like a major asshole. I glanced out of the rear window of my car to see if I was being followed. “I’m busy. If you haven’t noticed, I have two fucking jobs, and my boss for one of those is a real piece of work. He’s always riding my ass like I don’t have anything else to do.”

He chuckled. “I assume you’re referring to me.”

“If the shoe fits…” I answered, swinging my legs out of my car, then pushing the door shut behind me.

“Don’t think I didn’t notice that you still haven’t finished that security update for Black Investments.”

I switched my phone to the other ear and pumped a couple of quarters into the meter. “I haven’t forgotten about it, but it will probably be a few weeks before I can wrap it up.”

“What’s going on?”

I glanced up and down the street. “You know how these things go, Archer. I can’t talk about it on the phone. In fact, I shouldn’t tell you anything, ever, but I wouldn’t mind bouncing some ideas off you.”

My brother was one of the smartest people I’d ever met. He was a wizard with numbers and had an uncanny ability to see through the bullshit. Jack was a good business partner. We understood each other, and I respected his work ethic. He respected me, but I would never trust anyone as much as I trusted Archer. I had idolized him for as long as I could remember. That would never change.

He was only a couple of years older than me, but if it weren’t for him, I probably wouldn’t have survived past my fifth birthday. To put it mildly, my mom was a shitty parent who took her role as a victim seriously. Until the last year of her life, she used vodka to cope with the fallout from one self-created disaster after another. I’d spent my entire childhood and most of my adult life hating her. Resenting her. She stripped away my innocence and subjected me to the ugly side of life before I could even walk. Her neglect lingered over me like a thunderstorm my entire life.

“Then you’re in luck. Langley and I are in D.C. for a couple of days. I made reservations for the three us at that sushi place in my building at seven-thirty.”

Even though he and Langley moved to L.A. a year ago, Archer still owned his plush condo in the Four Seasons Hotel. He did everything but hold a gun to my head to get me to buy the place from him, but I didn’t want it. I made good money, especially in the past year or two, but nothing like Archer.

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