the gas station that they used as a front was set up outside. The large Sinclair building had been refurbished recently, earning much more work and money for Lucian.
That’s what it was all about.
The money.
Money that they had fucking lost within two minutes.
“Touch me again and I’ll rip your left tit out.” The threat was not an empty one, and Devlin knew it. She stepped back, crossing her arms over her large breasts. Her lips pouted downward, but the trepidation in her eyes went unnoticed to Lucian.
“Neither of you answered my question,” he lashed out, sitting on the edge of his desk. Devlin became serious, dropping her eyes to her steel toed boots. Her tight, sprayed on suit clung to her curves, material tight and revealing. It wasn’t actually sprayed on, but it looked like it. Her breasts were outlined clearly, her shapely legs muscular and lean.
Once upon a time, they had been together with much more than friendship in mind.. Of course, that had been a long time ago and they both had changed.
Levi’s lifeless tone came from the corner of his office. As always, he was hidden in the shadows, droll and unmoving. When you got him going, though, he was a monster and close to unstoppable. The Terminator had no shot against Levi.
“I heard jack squat.”
“Same here,” Devlin pipped in, flipping her red hair over her shoulder. She cocked her hip, hands planted on them. “Jessi is out for the day — there was some business about her mother in the ICU and I just couldn’t put up with her crying.”
Lucian nodded, rubbing a hand over his face. “So much is wrong with that family...” he sighed, looking at Levi. “Where is your second? If it isn’t —”
“His daughter has ammonia. Wife is out of town for a campaign.”
Lucian growled, getting up from the desk with a jerk. “The fuck is this all coming to? I need to get one of you and a team of mine out there. I can’t believe that no one saw this before — I mean — Fuck, this is crap. Get Jared and get out. I’ll email you a file on the two people and you sure as fuck better get going.”
“Tell us some BG right now, babe, and take a chill pill. I have some Midol in my purse...” Devlin said, raising her perfectly threaded eyebrows. She shifted her weight, drawing his eyes look over her suggestive body.
“Devlin,” he growled in warning, hands fisting.
Trimmed nails gleamed in the light, hands raising defensively.
He decided to ignore her and started talking. The sooner they got the information, the sooner they could get on with the mission and getting it over with.
“I could kill you.”
Jamie was held frozen in place with fear.
“So easily. Snap your neck, tear your jugular, bruise you, hurt you...”
The cadence of his voice was pleasurable, as if he were not only considering it, but wanting to and getting ready for her. She couldn’t move — the tenseness of her muscles wouldn’t let her.
“What would be the point of trying to leave,” he growled, “when they catch us and give us enough pain to fuck with your body and mind? You think that I will help you escape — why should I? I know what happens. I know what they will do. What kind of sick woman are you to put your trust in a fucked up man who doesn’t even have a soul anymore?”
Jamie flinched, dropping her eyes. Pain licked at her heart, her mind.
“Wouldn’t it suck if I just left you? Right now? Can you imagine the shit they would do to you?”
Tears started to build in her eyes. Jamie shook her head, covering her ears. “I would...”
“You would what? Beg for your life? Fuck them and hope they give you freedom?” His voice was nothing but a whip against her already fraying mind. “Baby, I’ve been there. Done that. Don’t think you would want the same disappointment I felt.”
She stared at him, eyes wide. Horror dawned on her as she realized the implications of his words. Before she could get a word out, he was on his feet and striding around the room, like a caged tiger looking for freedom.
“Talon,” she whispered, getting on her knees. Her heart broke at the haunted look in his eyes that hadn’t left, even when anger had shrouded them. The closer she looked, the harder she stared and tried to understand, the more it dawned on her that he was right.