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As if Sylvie would ever let that happen Not when they were so close to bringing down the bastard who’d turned her life into a circus sideshow When they confronted Anders, she wanted to be the bitch turning the screws
Standing in the kitchen doorith one hip cocked, she jangled Tony’s car keys froer And cleared her throat
Which grabbed his attention as surely as the smell of pizza after a two-day juice cleanse He halted, his shoulders rose to ear level, and he spun around in slow hty, all evidence of guilt had faded into a charrin that nearly knocked her to her knees
Anton had warned her about boys like him She should have listened
He held out his calloused pal up before we can head into Harbor City”
“Great, I’ his bluff
“No need, I’ed as soon as the words were out of his delicious, lying mouth
“Really? That’s the best you could come up with?”
Cute as he was, he still had a thing or twelve to learn about her if he thought pulling the old I-just-need-to-run-to-the-store routine would actually work Her trouble alert had gone to Defcon levels ten o while he’d been in deep phone conference with one of his guys Trusting her gut, she’d snagged his keys fro, since he’d waited approximately fourteen-point-two seconds after Ryder’s arrival to announce the bogus eht him
“There is no way in hell you’re leavingwith your sister while you confront Anders Blooaze to Ryder “No offense”
The tall brunette shrugged, a typical Falcon family reaction “None taken”
“You’re h his clenched jaw “I can’t risk taking you along”
“It’s Anders’s flagship store in broad daylight, not a maximum security prison in the middle of a riot”
He crossed his arms “No”
“Do you know his assistant? He knows every detail of Anders’s life and is a total gossip, but he’ll only talk to people he knows And the clerks despise Anders They’d love to spill the beans, but only to a trusted source, and only if their evil overlord is otherwise engaged I’ve been getting the goods from both parties for years What would take you hours to accoet done in five h she’d just kicked back three shots of Badass-R-Us vodka