Sin and Scandal. Carol Storm
swishing and her high heels clicking on the polished floor, she put on a show that was both devastatingly sexy and completely natural. Matt stood up, remembering his good-boy manners for the first time in years. He knew his growing arousal was visible. His pulse began to hammer and his mouth went dry.
"Matt, honey, do you think we could have a late breakfast? I declare I'm perfectly famished!" Crystal May shot her companion a sunny smile as she seated herself right across from him. Matt had grabbed a secluded booth in a quiet corner of the cafeteria, so they could have some privacy. It was a surprisingly intimate setting. Right now they were so close their knees were almost touching.
"I'll get you some lunch," Matt growled. He was hungry too, for Crystal May's incredible body. His need for her was rapidly overpowering his need to remain in control. Agent Gold didn't like that one bit. "We'll both have something to eat," he gritted out, "but we can't waste too much time stuffing our faces. The sooner you tell me where Carla is, the sooner we can get her back."
"That's right." Crystal May was suddenly all business, giving Matt her lunch order and sending him off to round up food for the two of them. While they were eating, she filled him in on the information she had gotten from Steve.
"... and he said both of the men who beat him up had that same tattoo, the sun with rays shooting out all over, right here." Crystal May touched her slender neck with one finger, then went right back to devouring her tiny little garden salad.
"The Valley of the Sun." Matt nodded, chewing on a leg of fried chicken. "The cartel has a major presence near here. We know the canyon they're using as a base. We can get two or three helicopters, maybe a squad or two of men ... infiltrating the base shouldn't be that big a problem."
"Only that won't help get Carla back," Crystal May said softly. "Because she's not there."
"What?" Matt stopped chewing. "But the cartel guys took her, didn't they? And Steve saw the tattoos on their necks?"
"He did," she confirmed. "But he told me a whole lot more that you don't know. It seems like the Sun cartel traded Carla to a certain very important politician. Steve knows that because this Senator or whatever he is happens to be an old friend of his daddy. The man is using cartel drug money to finance his next campaign, but he wanted to show respect by letting Steve's daddy know about the girl. They know how much Steve wants Carla back."
"What's the politician's name?" Matt demanded. "Where is he keeping Carla?"
Crystal May made a face. "He's having a private party at his ski lodge next Friday. Sort of like a secret fundraiser where sex is on the menu and big money gets traded for political favors. If the Tallarico family gets Carla back, they agree to let the Sun cartel take over the drug business. And in return, the cartel will pay all of the Senator's old debts to Steve's family."
"Names," Matt insisted. "I need names, and I need to know the exact location of the lodge."
"I've got both," Crystal May said, snatching a chicken leg right out from under Matt's nose. "But there's not going to be an FBI raid. I don't want men with machine guns firing all over the place and maybe hurting Carla by mistake. It has to be just the two of us, Matt. Alone. Undercover."
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