Total pages in book: 83
Estimated words: 77980 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 390(@200wpm)___ 312(@250wpm)___ 260(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 77980 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 390(@200wpm)___ 312(@250wpm)___ 260(@300wpm)
Terry wiggled his blond eyebrows. “Business or pleasure?”
“Business I’m gonna take great fucking pleasure in.” I told him about the recording and played it for him. “Got everything I need to get what I want.”
Terry nodded. “What if she doesn’t take a bribe?”
“Then she’ll probably end up out of the FBI. Either way is good enough for me. There’s no evidence to implicate Sadie, or the rest of us, for anything. Because of Beck’s personal agenda, she won’t give up as easily as whoever replaces her.”
“That’s why you’re the boss, always thinking ahead. I heard Sadie woke up.”
I nodded. “Just for a fucking second. The doctor said she’ll wake up in her own damn time.”
“Nothing they can do for her?”
“Nope,” I said. She was everything to me, my ma, my mentor, and a pain in my ass. But I hoped like hell she’d wake up soon.
We pulled up to the dreary hotel, and I unbuckled my seatbelt. “Stay here. This won’t take long.”
Agent Beck opened the door with a sultry smile on her face, tits pushed out like she thought I might be here to fuck her instead of fuck her over. “Jasper. What brings you by?” She took a step back and motioned me inside.
I heard the door close behind me, and once I had confirmation she was alone, I turned with a smile aimed right at her.
“You, Agent Beck. I’m here for you.”
Her nostrils flared, and I had to prevent the smile that threatened when I had this feeling, like a predator about to strike.
“Oh yeah? Tell me more.”
“But you’ve already said so much.” Confusion pulled her brows into a frown, but still she moved toward me.
“I haven’t said anything.” She played at being coy, and I let her.
“That’s not true. Is it?” I pulled out my phone and let the voice recording play.
Horror was the first emotion to cross her face, followed quickly by regret and then fear. She paled and shook her head. “That’s not what it sounds like.”
I focused on her fear and took great fucking pleasure in it. I reveled in it, and the more it built up, the more it tortured her face, the happier I felt.
“It sounds like you’re admitting to fucking someone you’re also investigating. I’m not a rule follower all the time, but I’m pretty sure that’s grounds to get your ass booted from the FBI.”
And if there was one true thing I knew about Addison Beck, it was that her job meant everything to her.
“They’ll know I was just talking shit, playing the bad cop to get a witness or suspect to talk. It’s called routine investigative work.”
I laughed and shook my head. “Maybe, unless I confirm that we did fuck. I have footage of you all dressed up and coming into my office for a good thirty or forty minutes. That’d be pretty hard to dispute, especially considering your obsession with my family. With me.”
Beck folded her arms and scoffed. “Oh, please. That’s bullshit.”
I tucked the phone back into my pocket. “I guess that means you don’t want to make a deal?” I shrugged. “Too bad. I thought you were smarter than that.”
She opened her mouth to speak, frowning when I cut her off before she could say a word.
“You want to know about your old man? I’ll tell you the truth. The whole truth, whether you want to hear it or not. I do that and you take the two million and get the fuck out of Nevada forever.”
She stared at me, those icy blue eyes trying to figure out if I was lying or not. “If you ever come back, I promise to forget that you’re a federal agent. Got it?”
She nodded but said nothing, looking wholly dejected.
I dropped down on the stiff sofa listening to the cushions sigh. “Jack worked for us. He drove trucks, eighteen wheelers mostly, and he was a good man and a loyal employee.”
“You knew him?” Hope swam in her eyes, desperate to know every detail I could remember.
“Some. I was a kid, but I remembered him being around. A lot. Especially after Colm died. There might have been something between him and Sadie but I can’t say for sure. What I do know is that she genuinely liked him, considered him a friend.”
Beck shook her head, trying to process the details I provided. That wasn’t my problem, so I kept talking.
“When that shipment went missing and Jack along with it, she didn’t even consider that Jack had betrayed her. Betrayed the family. That’s how loyal he was.”
Sadie had been worried and then angry after the first week of his disappearance. “We scoured the roads and everywhere in between for him. For a full year we searched for him. Then we found him.”
Beck gasped and looked up from her hands. “You found him?”