Take the Heat by Skye Warren

Author:Skye Warren
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781940518169
Published: 2014-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

Playing with Fire

Tamsin Flowers

Cassandra watched as her sister got dressed, gingerly pulling the clothes up over her bruised flesh, tears streaming down her cheeks. She was pale and scrawny thin. The dark rings around her eyes made her look like a panda, and her red nail polish was chipped halfway down her bitten nails. It seemed such a short while ago that her kid sister had been a happy, healthy coed, going off to college with her friends, bubbling with laughter. Now she was a wreck, a shadow of her former self with track marks on her arms. And Cassandra held one man responsible.

The doctor handed her a prescription.

“Your sister needs to go to rehab,” he said. “But if you can’t afford it, you’ll have to monitor her yourself. It’s going to be tough on both of you.”

Tough? Cassandra wondered if the doctor had any idea. She knew she needed to get Melly out of town, away from the drugs and the men who gave them to her. And away from Aston Moore, the man to whom she owed so much money and who wanted to sell her body to pay off the debt. But Cassandra wasn’t stupid. She was well aware that if she didn’t sort things out before they left, Moore would have them followed. He was a violent man, and Cassandra was all too familiar with his reputation, even though she’d never come across him in person.

Now, though, she had no choice.

“How much do you owe him?” said Cassandra when they were back in the anonymous motel room, a place where Cassandra hoped Moore and his henchmen wouldn’t think of looking for them.

“Stay out of it, Cass,” snapped Melly, tugging her fingers through a tangle in her dirty blonde hair.

“I’ve got savings, Melly,” said Cassandra.

“It won’t be enough,” said Melly. “Nothing will ever be enough for those greedy bastards. It’s my mess, Cass. Please don’t get involved—I don’t want you hurt as well.”

“You don’t get a say in it, Melly. What sort of a sister would I be if I let you carry on…”

“You can’t even say it, can you?”

Melly slammed the door of the bathroom behind her, and Cassandra heard the lock click into place.

*

Cassandra was five years older than her sister, Melly, and after their mother had died, she’d stood in for five years of mothering. And apparently she hadn’t done a very good job. So she wasn’t going to let Melly down now.

Aston Moore owned a club downtown, a strip joint or worse, where he hung out with his cronies. Cassandra had never been inside—hell, she didn’t even know anyone who’d been in there. Apart from Melly. She picked her time carefully, just after lunch when the place would be quiet but not totally deserted. She picked what she was wearing even more carefully. She wanted to look tough, though she knew she’d never fool a man like Moore. But the biker boots and the ripped jeans gave her confidence, and the leather jacket was all she could use as a shield.

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