Secrets Collide (Bluegrass Brothers)

and slammed the door before he lost control of the laughter. One look at him bent over had Gemma losing it. She started laughing so hard tears streamed down her face.
    “Did you see his hair?” she gasped.
    “Or the way her red lipstick was smeared and her eyes were so wide at being busted? Oh God, I don’t know if I can stand this—it hurts.” Cy grabbed his side as he tried to stop laughing. “Oh, I know.” Cy turned and ran back to the front door and flipped the switch beside it. Light poured through the windows as the porch was bathed in light.
    “Cyland Davies,” Miss Lily shouted from outside.
    “Uh-oh.” Cy grabbed her hand and raced upstairs as the front door opened and a large hand slid through the crack of the door and flipped off the light.
     
    Cy didn’t stop laughing all the way upstairs. They stopped in the sitting area between rooms and he tried to figure out what to do. Let her go to bed? Alone? He’d been getting mixed signals. At the dance it had seemed they were of the same mind. That made up his mind: thinking of the way she fit in his arms, the way her legs brushed against his, the way her breasts pressed against his chest.
    “Well, um. I guess . . .” Gemma stammered as she looked from Cy to the door. He held his breath as he waited to see what she was going to do. When she didn’t move, he took it as a sign.
    “Come here,” Cy said with a gravelly voice. He stood still as Gemma looked up at him and took a step forward. He pulled her to him and closed his mouth over hers. He felt her grasp at his tuxedo as he deepened the kiss, pushing her against his door and leaning into her.
    She moaned as he released her mouth to bury his head in the crook of her neck. Her hand raked his hair and she grabbed a fistful when he worked his lips over her delicate collarbone.
    “I’ve wanted to do this all night,” Cy murmured as he shoved the strap of the gown off one shoulder, exposing a breast. He looked into her eyes, dark with excitement. With one hand he grabbed her ass and squeezed. With the other, he raised her breast to his lips and with a flick of his tongue had her squirming.
    Gemma’s head fell back as he pulled the other strap down. He pushed the dress down, baring her to him. “Cy, don’t stop,” Gemma panted.
    “I was planning on a lot of things, but stopping anytime soon is not one of them.” Cy kissed his way up to capture her lips again. He turned the doorknob as he ravished her mouth with his tongue. He picked her up and carried her through the door, kicking it shut.
     

CHAPTER SIXTEEN
     
    Gemma took a sip of the sweet tea Miss Lily had brought up and looked at the pictures and notes spread out across her desk. She had scoured the news this morning, but there was no report of a man found dead in a field, so she had turned back to her notes to find out what her sister had discovered that had gotten her killed.
    “Knock, knock. Am I interrupting anything?” Cade asked as he came into the room.
    “Only your brother’s pacing,” Gemma quipped as she pulled out a picture of a striking blonde. “What’s going on?”
    “You were right yesterday. Those words that seemed out of place were the key. I got the flash drive open.” Cade dropped a huge stack of papers in front of her and Gemma felt like groaning. “And I can’t read a single one of them. They’re all in that language of yours. However, there were a couple of photographs and you’re holding one of them. I may not know what’s on these pages, but I’m guessing that woman is important. Do you know who she is?”
    Cade and Cy came to stand beside her as they looked at the woman with the blonde hair and oversized sunglasses. “She looks familiar, but I just can’t place her,” Cy said as he examined the photograph.
    “Me too. It’s nagging at me. Hopefully, my sister will have her name somewhere in this pile.”
    “If you work with me, I may be able to build a program to translate it. It'll take a couple of hours up front but could save you a lot of time,” Cade suggested.
    “You could do that?” Cy asked. Cade just gave him a look and Cy nodded. “I shouldn’t have asked. But I need a favor. I want to think over some things and I do that better moving around. I don’t want to be in Gemma’s hair, but I don’t want to leave her alone either.”
    “I got it. It’ll take us a while to get this program written and then I can help her go through it.”
    “Thanks, Cade. Is that okay with