Beneath the Secrets, Part Two (Tall, Dark & Deadly) Read Online Free

the
cartel, holding her for ransom.
    “Quickly,” Blake pressed, “what did
you overhear from Eduardo?”
    “Nothing.” She cut her gaze to his
chest before she could stop herself, a sure sign of a lie to a
trained eye. “I didn’t have time to catch anything. They were
already leaving the office.” She tried to push away from him. He
held onto her and damn it, her gaze lifted to his.
    He stared down at her, his eyes
keen, too keen, and suddenly his fingers were under her hair,
wrapping her neck. He pulled her hard against him, his mouth
slanting over hers, his tongue stroking hers in a short, intense
kiss that she dared to let herself revel in. Too soon, though, the
door jerked behind them again and he tore his mouth from hers, his
eyes capturing hers. “You do know we’re going to talk when we get
back to your apartment, right?”
    “Talk?” she asked
innocently.
    “That’s right,” he assured her.
“And, depending on how cooperative you are, handcuffs may or may
not be involved.”
    Kara swallowed hard, feeling heat
radiate down her spine. He meant it. He’d cuff her and torment her,
tease her, drive her to the edge of orgasm and pull her back until
she was going insane. And she just might, because there was no way
she could confess anything to him. There was too much to
lose.
    “And when do you talk, Blake?” she
challenged.
    “Talking isn’t my specialty, as
you’ll find out tonight.”
    He pushed off the door and pulled
her around to exit before she could say more, and she had the
distinct impression he didn’t like where this conversation was
going. Even more so when he quickly pulled her into the hallway,
where they found Ignacio and Eduardo waiting on them. Somehow, she
doubted that was a good thing.

Chapter Three
     
    “ You two need a private office or
what?” Ignacio asked.
    “Yeah,” Blake said. “Yours up for
grabs?” He glanced at Ignacio. “Or maybe yours?”
    “Aren’t you the funny man?” Eduardo
asked sarcastically.
    “Ha ha,” Blake said. “Only I wasn’t
joking. I need an office to work out of. This seems like as good a
location as any.”
    “The way he eats,” Kara commented,
“a restaurant might not be a bad idea.”
    “She has a point,” Blake said
approvingly. “Food at my disposal is always a plus.”
    “No space to spare here,” Eduardo
said. “I guess you’ll have to try another location.”
    “Maybe in the warehouse,” Blake
countered. “Why don’t you take me on a tour?”
    Eduardo crossed his arms in front
of his chest. “It’s closed for business tonight, but hey, if you
want to see a bunch of pallets, sure. We’ll take you on a
tour.”
    “We’ll risk being bored,” Blake
assured him.
    “Come back tomorrow night,” Ignacio
said. “The crew will be here. You can see everything.”
    Or nothing, Kara thought. Tonight
was about women and sex, not drugs, and damn it, she wanted to
launch herself at both of these men and throttle them.
    “That works,” Blake said,
surprising Kara. “What time tomorrow night?”
    “Nine,” Eduardo said. “That lets
you see the entire process.”
    “Nine it is,” Blake
agreed.
    It was all Kara could do not to
gape and then object, but already Blake was ushering her away, his
hand firmly wrapping her upper arm. In a blink, she was leaving
behind a chance to see the warehouse and headed for the exit. She
had a bad feeling she wouldn’t be coming back with him
tomorrow.
    The instant they were out of the
building, the cool San Francisco night air whipping around her, she
challenged him. “Why would you leave without seeing what they might
be hiding?”
    Blake cut her a sideways look and
clicked the lock of the truck on the key ring. “Ignacio would have
called and told them we were coming. There’s nothing to see they
don’t want us to see.”
    “Tomorrow there definitely won’t be
anything for us to see. We didn’t give them much warning tonight,
and what about getting an idea of the layout and