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THE PERFECT TEN (Boxed Set)

THE PERFECT TEN (Boxed Set)

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Autoren: Dianna Love , Sandy Blair , Misty Evans , Adrienne Giordano , Mary Buckham , Alexa Grace , Tonya Kappes , Nancy Naigle , Norah Wilson , Micah Caida
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Zane’s description of his sister as a social butterfly was fairly apt, she wasn’t sure why Trish painted her brother as mysterious.
    Finished with her shoes, Angel stood and leaned a hip against the counter. “What did you mean when you called Zane a mystery man?”
    Trish shot up a conspiratorial eyebrow, then seemed to reconsider something and picked up a pen she’d been doodling with. She started drawing shapes on a scratch pad again. “He doesn’t like me to talk about his work.”
    “Why?”
    Trish lifted a shoulder. “Beats me. He gets cranky when I ask how long he’s going to be out of town or what his schedule is, but he comes and goes all hours of the day and night.”
    Angel frowned at Trish’s roundabout answer. “That’s sort of expected of a charter pilot isn’t it? The nature of his particular business.”
    “Maybe,” Trish answered evasively.
    Intrigued, Angel asked, “What do you mean?”
    Trish studied her mug. “When he started the charter business, it took off like crazy. He’s a great pilot, you know?” 
    Both women jumped when thunder boomed and rain started pounding outside. Trish lifted her head. “Wow, that’s really coming down.”
    Please, Trish, try to stay on topic . “Nasty out there. You were saying ... about Zane.”
    “Oh, yeah.” Trish returned to her mug, turning it round and round between her hands. “He’s fearless. He’ll fly in any kind of weather, when other pilots won’t. He’s not afraid to take risks.”
    Angel couldn’t counter that with any intelligent argument since Zane had stuck his neck out to save her more than once. But she didn’t think that was what Trish alluded to and asked, “You’re worried about the hours Zane’s putting in?”
    Abandoning her mug, Trish seemed to calculate something before she raised her head to smile wryly at Angel. “He must think something of you or you wouldn’t be sleeping here. He never brings anyone here.”
    Oh . Angel’s silly heart smiled over hearing that until she reminded herself that Zane’s sister didn’t know how Angel had ended up here. Rather than correct Trish, Angel stuck with her plan to find out more about Zane the mystery man. “We’ve become friends and I’ve enjoyed flying with him. I worry about him, too.”
    Trish nodded as if that were the sign that she could share her deepest secrets with Angel. “A few months after he opened the charter business, he got more secretive about what he was doing and where he was flying. He won’t say who he’s flying for, and that’s when he told me I shouldn’t talk about his business.”  She squinted her eyes at Angel. “Usually I don’t. But...” She hesitated, then seemed to waver on her decision.
    “I would never share anything about Zane,” Angel said, trying to tip that decision in her favor.
    Trish had been sitting with her shoulders hunched forward, then all at once she relaxed as if a pressure valve in her neck had been released. “I wouldn’t talk to just anyone about him, but I’m worried he’s taking on some risky cargo, something that pays too good to refuse.”
    What? Angel hadn’t seen that one coming. Was Trish saying that Zane would carry illegal goods? Keeping her voice neutral as possible when her heart was thumping wildly, Angel asked, “What specifically makes you think that?”
    “Sometimes he takes off with hardly more than a goodbye and won’t talk about what he’s hauling – then he shows up anywhere from a couple of days to a week later.”
    Just like Zane had this morning .
    If his sister knew little about her brother’s activities, Angel knew even less about Zane Black. What if he did transport illegal shipments? That would mean he dealt with criminals.
    Lowlifes like Mason.
    Was that what Zane had meant when he assured her he could help with her problem? That he knew people who could make a problem go away permanently? Or was her imagination going Hollywood, imagining ridiculous possibilities?
    But Zane had flown out of that airport in Raleigh fully aware she’d stowed away with armed men chasing her.
    He hadn’t been overly concerned about any of those issues. Most men – if they weren’t involved in dangerous or illegal work – would have been.
    What about his offer to contact law enforcement? Had that been just to convince her he was aboveboard?
    What if federal agents were watching him?
    They’d see her, too.
    Was it her lot in life to become involved with men leading secret

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