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She makes a small sound. I half smile and take another swallow of the bourbon. “But I’m not good at it and it only goes so far. So try and meet me half way.”
“Why?”
“Why?” I ask. “Because you fucking failed to deliver the necklace. You fucking fucked both me and Hendrick over and I kill for a lot less than that. I’m sure Mr. Boring told you weall need to work together. He most likely came up with some bullshit, but bare bones is this…”
I finish the drink, set the glass down, and stalk up to her. “We need each other. All of us. Keep whatever jewels you find or not, I don’t care. Give me the Heart of Dark Desires. Fuck, at this point, hand it back to goddamn Hendrick. But work with me.AndHendrick.
“We need to find the assholes who are trying to usurp us, and you need us to keep you and your little girlfriend alive, MG. Because if someone thinks they can go against the Quinate, they’ll find you wherever you go. If you’re thinking of disappearing.”
She doesn’t say a fucking word and that tells me everything. Hopefully this time, I got my point across.
“So,” I say, like she answered, “what’s the plan for tonight?”
MG’s smart. And I’m nowhere near as bored as I thought I would be.
I sit on the small settee in the study, feet on the coffee table, and look up at her over the computer she handed me.
“Are you letting me into all your secrets, MG?”
She folds her arms and rests her knee on the arm of the armchair as she looks down at me. “Hardly. But where do you think the mayor might keep her jewels? Apart from her bedroom dresser. Where would you, if you were her, keep a second safe?”
“A second one?” I shrug and pass the computer to her with the blueprints she got from fuck knows where of the mayor’s mansion, right at the top end of city, overlooking the park.
“It’s not her home home—”
“It’s her home while she’s in power.” She moves from the chair to the desk and sets the computer down, making a note on the pad of paper there. “That means she keeps everything important there.”
“If she does, then it’s simple.”
“There are two safes. One in the study, one in the bedroom, built in. If I can work out the most likely safe, then hopefully I’ll find it first go. The longer it takes, the harder it’ll be.”
“Says the great MG Rossi.”
She comes to me and leans over me. “Harder, not impossible.”
Fuck, she’s hot. I twist a hand in her hair and bring her in for a hard, carnal kiss.
It’s borderline feral, our tongues dueling, and the heat in the room starts climbing to near combustible levels.
But I push her away, and breathing harshly, adjust myself. “The study.”
“Why?” She staggers a little, pupils dilated, and thoughts of the X-rated kind, of me shoving her face into the floor and taking her ass and cunt hard from behind fill my head.
“Because that way she can look at them when she wants.” I reach for my drink and take a swallow. I need something to douse this fire inside. “Why don’t they look for these if they know—”
“Where they are?” She shakes her head. “I don’t think the people behind kidnapping me know where all the jewels are.” MG goes quiet as she takes a shaky breath. “And it doesn’t matter if they know. They need someone of my skills to get them.”
I nod. Or this is some show of power. I’m not sure that matters because she’s right. It’s why I hired her. I knew the fucker Hendrick has the Heart of Dark Desires, but me going inand trying to get it? Never would have worked. Her skills are important. Vital. And she fucking knows it.
I check my watch. “Go get ready, MG. We’ve got an event to go to.”
Carlos doesn’t have any news on Kincaid. He’s keeping a low profile, still trying to get meetings with the other Quinate. But Ivan, Maximo and Declan aren’t playing. Just like we all agreed on.
Still doesn’t stop poisonous bastards like Kincaid.
He really is the most likely candidate. Kidnap is his style. Forcing others to do his dirty work is, too.
But the targeting on me and Hendrick? It makes sense on a level.
