Killing Time

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Author: Cindy Gerard
Tags: Suspense, Romance, Contemporary, Adult
claim you are—”
    “Oh, please. Prisons are full of innocent men. Just ask ’em. They’ll all tell you the same thing. They didn’t do it. No one buys that, either.”
    She breathed deep, fighting the urge to believe him. “So . . . what? Someone set you up as a scapegoat?”
    “Scapegoat, slow-moving target. Take your pick.”
    “Then who was responsible for what went wrong that night?”
    He pushed out a humorless laugh. “If I knew the answer to that question, do you honestly think we’d be having this conversation?”
    “You’ve got to have some ideas.”
    He slowly shook his head. “None. And you know what? I don’t give a shit anymore. But I do care about how you got your hands on that file.”
    He held her gaze for a long, challenging moment,making her uncomfortable for reasons she couldn’t explain. Maybe because underneath all that bluster, an unexpected hint of vulnerability bled through.
    Or maybe because she really did want Brown to be a good guy after all. Ramon had been a good guy—one of the best.
    •   •   •
    “It’s Jane,” she said when Stingray answered his phone. Jane Smith was one of the many aliases that protected not only her identity, but her bank accounts—many of which the man on the other end of the line had filled quite nicely. He wasn’t her only source of income but he was one of her most lucrative. He was, however, the only one who shared her bed.
    “I’d started to think you’d forgotten who signs your paychecks.”
    Even though he was thousands of miles away, his voice rang crystal clear through her earbud. Before they’d finally met face-to-face, she’d known him only as Stingray. But after doing a couple of jobs for him, she’d had more than a passing curiosity about what this particular man looked like. She’d been fairly certain he was American. Now she knew everything about him. “Yes, well, I’ve been a little busy.”
    The smell of exhaust from the busy street one story below rolled in through the open doors that led to a small, narrow terrace adjacent to the one belonging to room 203, where her assignment plus one were totally unsuspecting. The plus one both intrigued and amused her.
    Perspiration trickled between her breasts as she moved away from the doors and lay down on the bed. “Your girl’s a mover.” She stared at the languid ceiling fan that did little to cut the night’s suffocating heat. “Keeping up with her has pretty much taken all of my attention.”
    “She’s not my girl. She’s your assignment. Please tell me you haven’t lost her.”
    Because she understood he had much on the line, and because the sound of his voice tripped a lot of triggers other than anger, she let the insult slide. And because she was his business associate first, his lover second, she never forgot her professional code. Always keep the customer happy. “I’ve got her.”
    “So what’s going on?”
    “At the moment we appear to have a little hostage situation.”
    “You’re not serious.”
    She heard the laughter in his voice along with the surprise. She had always liked his laugh. Liked his no-nonsense manner. The first time they’d ever done business, she’d found herself thinking that if she ever met him, she was going to screw him. His smoke-and-whiskey voice—a pleasant departure from the guttural Arabic or Farsi contacts she so often dealt with—had that kind of effect on her.
    “Have you ever known me to joke?”
    “Point taken. So fill me in on what’s happened since you landed in Lima.”
    “She made a beeline to El Tocón Sangriento —Iwouldn’t recommend the sangria, by the way—where she came on to this guy like a seasoned pepera girl.”
    “ Pepera ?”
    “ Pepera. Brichera . Streets of Lima are full of girls who rob and drug men who can’t keep it in their pants.”
    “Consider me educated,” he said with another hint of a smile in his voice.
    Yeah. She had definitely fallen in lust with that voice.
    “So, she
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