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Dawg was supposed to have picked her up thirty minutes ago to collect her car and her clothes.
He had stashed her in his office with a firm warning to stay put, then headed out with no more information than the approximate time he would be back.
And while he had been gone, she had been thinking.
What happened at the warehouse made absolutely no sense whatsoever to her. The fact that the note from the delivery company was missing from her car made even less sense. About as much sense as the other items that had come up missing over the last few months, just to turn back up days later. She had meant to look for the note. It must have slipped onto the floor or between the seats, but Dawg hadn’
t given her a change to search for it.
She propped her elbow on her knee and cupped her fingers in her hand, a frown tightening her brow as she tapped her lips with her fingers.
Why would she be deliberately drawn to the warehouse?
Unless someone wanted to mess up something Dawg was doing. It wouldn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out he had been chasing her ever since he had learned of her return to Somerset.
And in doing it, they had given him the perfect opportunity to blackmail her.
Would he really turn her over to the authorities? Damn, he had looked serious, sounded serious.
And he warned her in no uncertain terms not to discuss the other night with anyone.
She jerked to her feet and paced to the wide door with its tinted window to stare at the busy floor below. She was in trouble, and she knew it. She had known it even before she bumbled into the warehouse; she just hadn’t wanted to admit it. Even Alex had had enough sense to know something was wrong. He would have never told her to call Dawg otherwise. Because he must have known that Dawg was some kind of agent. Alex would have known that Dawg would have the means to find out what was going on.
But Alex couldn’t have known the fee Dawg would require: her body.
She shivered at the memory.
He had caught her off guard, she assured herself; otherwise, she would have never given in to him.
He had been inside her before she could assimilate the change from anger to passion, even within her own body.
And her body had betrayed her. She had been so slick, so wet, that even now her face flamed in mortification. Even as she grew wetter.
She was going to have to buy more panties at this rate.
She glanced at her watch again. Nearly an hour late. If she didn’t pick up her car, it was going to be towed.
What would it have hurt to let her go ahead and pick up the rest of her stuff and then meet him here? It was broad daylight. She didn’t exactly live in the boondocks, and she had neighbors.
Besides, other than Dawg, Natches, and that insane person who tried to shoot her, no one knew she was at the warehouse. Except whoever sent her to the warehouse to begin with.
She shoved her hands in the pockets of her jeans and continued to stare into the sales floor. She would give him a few more minutes. If he wasn’t back in a few minutes, then she would catch a ride from here to the diner where her Rodeo was still parked. It was no more than a half dozen blocks. Broad daylight. She could have her car back and her meager belongings packed and waiting in the front of the store before he returned.
It wasn’t like there was much to pack.
As the thought zipped through her mind, her gaze landed on the short, leanly built man moving through the register counter below.
A smile lit her face.
Johnny Grace owned the little bakery store on the land next to her and Alex’s house. The scent of the delicacies wafting through the air nearly drove her crazy on her off days.
He was obviously ringing up his purchases, flashing a smile to the checkout boy and flirting easily.
Johnny wasn’t deterred when it came to his sexual lifestyle. He enjoyed men more than he did women, and he saw no reason to hide it.
She glanced at her watch. She could be back before Dawg ever knew she was gone.
She grabbed her purse from the table next to her, opened the door, and hurried out before locking it as Johnny headed for the automatic doors.
