Whisper In The Dark (The McKinnon Legends-- The American Men Book One) Read Online Free PDF

leaving the Secret Service, he opened his own personal security business. Business was thriving, and he had become a very wealthy man guarding political figures, foreign dignitaries, and famous faces.
    Purchasing this track of land was a good investment for the long run, so he was getting something for his trouble. He hoped he did not lose Kate’s respect over a strip of dirt and her Brandenburg pride, which if memory served was nothing short of legendary. All Brandenburgs had a tendency to be too prideful for their own good. He hoped time had tempered hers.
    Once George reached him with word of Kyle’s death, he did some investigating to locate her. Neither George nor Kyle had spoken to her in over a year, which according to George, was very unusual. However, she had sent letters, if infrequently. The neighborhood addresses on those letters had gotten progressively dicier before they stopped coming all together right before Christmas.
    Robert felt he had discovered the reason why she had alienated herself. After being humiliated and fired from her posh Wall Street international brokerage job three years earlier, she had all but disappeared. When separated from her ex-husband, Daniel Masterson, he sought revenge and got it. The bastard was completely responsible for the demise of her career after accusing her of insider trading. She had been exonerated of all charges, but not before her reputation suffered total devastation in the financial community. The Securities Exchange Commission pulled her brokerage license pending the full investigation. Yet, regardless of the reinstatement of her license, none would touch her with a ten-foot pole. The financial district was a bunch of jackals with very long memories and completely unforgiving hearts.
    It took some doing to locate her. He had a buddy in the N.Y.P.D. who worked in the seventy-fifth precinct so he had called in some favors, discovering she was currently working as a waitress at an all night café in Brooklyn. It was a tough part of town. Unemployment rates were high, hopes were low, and crime always a concern. He could see she was being dragged under by her circumstances.
    The lease on her apartment expired shortly after her marriage fell apart. Her landlord raised her rent to the point she could no longer afford to keep it. After being evicted she had moved around frequently, and she currently called home an apartment building his cop friend described as a hovel. He said it smelled like cat pee and the gang graffiti on the entryway was so thick there was no way to tell in whose territory it actually was.
    Her ex-husband left her with loads of debt, and she had sold her soul to a loan shark for a meteoric interest loan to pay that debt. According to one of her co-workers, the thug continually harassed her even though she was managing to make the payments as agreed, sacrificing even necessities to meet the obligation.
    Robert had already seen the loan paid in full. Issued along with the payment was a very strong recommendation to leave Katherine alone. He had not bothered to veil his threat, which ran something along the line of should he ever discover the bastard approaching her again, he would personally see to it that the man never did business inside the borders of the United States. Robert had very little patience for scum, especially a piece of scum who got his rocks off by harassing women. The day Kyle died, Katherine became his responsibility and no one messes with what belongs to a McKinnon and not regret it.
    He was going to give the encounter a little time to cool before he called in a few more favors. He was sure the shark was not totally on the up-and-up and he had every intention of exploiting his suspicion. With his connections in the law enforcement community, the man would be doing time before he knew what hit him, and it would never be connected back to Katherine.
    To top it off, Kyle had no life insurance. George knew she could not afford to bury her