Elemental Assassin 02 - Web of Lies

be of inlips’s girls.”
    terest to a guy like you.” Sarcasm dripped from my voice A hard smile curved my lips. “I’m a woman of many like hot gravy off a biscuit.
    skills.”
    His violet eyes glittered in the semidarkness, and he
    “I just bet you are,” he murmured.
    smiled. “of course not.”
    “Let’s get down to business,” I said. “Because I have
    “So you want to fuck me then,” I said in a blunt tone. other things to do tonight besides stand out here in the
    “That’s what this little conversation is all about. The dark with you.”
    talk about my knives, the stroll on the terrace, the handLike killing Tobias Dawson. Five minutes had passed holding and come-on about what my scar sounds like. since I’d left Mab Monroe in her own bathroom with Jake Interesting technique. Tell me, what was your next move?
    McAllister. Since I hadn’t heard any screams or scurries of Maneuvering me up against the wall here? or me acciactivity, she hadn’t found his body in the bathtub. Which dentally falling on your dick?”
    meant I still had a small window of time left to find, atGrayson laughed again. “of course I want to fuck you, tract, and kill Dawson.
    Gin.”
    owen Grayson nodded. “Very well. As I was saying, He stared at me. I saw the desire in his violet gaze, but I was quite surprised to see you here tonight. But once I it wasn’t as lecherous or prurient as the other looks I’d did, I decided to approach you.”
    been getting tonight. oh, owen Grayson seemed to be
    “Why?”
    as sexual and fond of the female form as the next man. He shrugged. “I thought you might like to dance.”
    But genuine interest also shimmered in the businessman’s I stared at him. He seemed to be sincere. owen Grayeyes, as though he was enjoying our sparring conversation son attracted to me? My eyes narrowed. or perhaps he’d as much as he would lifting up my skirt.
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    “But let’s slow down, shall we?” Grayson said. “As I Grayson nodded. “All right. What kind of favor?”
    said before, I’ve always had a thing for sassy brunettes.
    “Take me inside and introduce me to Tobias Dawson. I’ve decided I rather like you, Gin. You interest me. And I’m sure you know him, since the two of you are so heavno one’s done that in a very long time.”
    ily involved in the mining business in Ashland.”
    “So what are you proposing—exactly? That the two of His eyes narrowed. “I do know him. But why would us go off somewhere quiet to talk before you make your you want to meet Dawson? He doesn’t strike me as your move?” I mocked.
    type.”
    “Hardly.” owen scoffed. “Unlike some of Mab’s other I gave him a hard smile. “Because I’m here to service guests, I don’t need to depend on her generosity for my Mab’s guests tonight, and I hear he’s a really big tipper. satisfaction. I thought you might like to go out sometime. And that’s definitely my type.”
    Dinner, perhaps a movie, dancing. Whatever you like.”
    owen studied me in the hazy light. Disappointment My eyebrows raised. “You want to go out with me?
    sparked in his eyes. His free, easy lay was getting away. Even though I’m wearing this?” I pointed to the heart“You said it yourself. You owe me for saving Eva, for and-arrow rune necklace. “Even though I’m a hooker?
    saving your sister,” I reminded him in a mild tone. “Well, Even though you could have me for free tonight?”
    this is how I want to cash in. Now, are you going to inHe shrugged again. “Call me crazy, but I thought it troduce me? or am I going to have to take care of that might be fun.”
    myself?”
    Fun? I didn’t know about that. But there was cerPretending to be a prostitute. Propositioning Mab tainly more to owen Grayson than met the eye. He Monroe in her own bathroom. Hinting I was going to go thought I was moonlighting as one of Roslyn Phillips’s fuck another man for the mere promise of money. owen girls, and he was still asking me to go out with him. Grayson had seen and heard me do all those things in the To be seen in public with him. Which meant he was space of five minutes. I resigned myself to the disgusted either genuinely interested in me or working some angle sneer that was coming my way and the harsh words that I couldn’t puzzle out. Either way, I didn’t have time for were sure to follow. No man liked being cuckolded. this tonight.
    But to