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criminals. It s an education you can t get in normal surroundings.
Bayleigh tried to slow her breathing so she didn t pass out, but she wasn t having much luck with
the cloth stuffed inside her mouth.
There s no escape for you now. He unzipped his leather jacket and tossed it across the desk,
leaving him in a plain white t-shirt that stretched around his biceps. I guess it serves you right for
selling your body to that bastard.
Anger flashed in his eyes, and she assumed the bastard was Cade. Carlos lifted the leg of his
jeans and pulled a wickedly sharp knife from the leather sheath strapped to his calf. Her eyes
widened in fear as he turned the blade slowly so she could see the gleaming curve of it in the
candlelight.
You see this, puta? he asked. I m going to take that gag out of your mouth, and if you make one
sound, I m going to start cutting. Do we understand each other?
Bayleigh nodded frantically, praying for a miracle. He pulled the wadded cloth from her mouth,
and she swallowed, her mouth dry with fear.
Cade will come for you, she said, wishing she d slept in her clothes instead of the thin t-shirt
and panties she wore. He ll kill you.
If that traitor cared for you at all he would have put a tracker on you like I did, Carlos said,
holding up her phone. It wasn t hard to slip into the house and put in the chip while you were visiting
the lady across the street. Like I said, I ve got talents the men who were watching your house could
never dream of.
He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a pair of surgical gloves, blowing into each one
before putting his hands inside, as if he d done it a thousand times before. Once the gloves were on he
pulled out a small vial of white powder, no bigger than her pinky finger, from his pocket.
Cade MacKenzie has been a problem for me, Carlos said. He turned my father against me. He
gained the respect of the cartel soldiers until they only listened to his orders and questioned mine. He
seduced my sister and got her killed, and he destroyed our original labs with the information he held.
We lost millions of dollars of this powder you can t keep your eyes off of. And all the while,
MacKenzie was really working for his government.
Good, Bayleigh said, her eyes flashing as the fight returned to her body. There was no way in
hell she was just going to lie there helplessly and let him kill her. If she was going to die, then she d
do it fighting with her last breath. You seem to be under the impression that the bad guys are
supposed to win. I m going to enjoy watching him take you apart.
He can try, Carlos sneered. But that won t change the fact that you ll be dead. This is payback.
I ve got men taking care of Cade s sister as we speak. And I ve got you all to myself. I only wish he
could be here to see how much you suffer. He shrugged as if Cade s absence were a minor
inconvenience. He ll find your body, and that will have to be enough.
Bayleigh bit back a scream as he brought the knife up and sliced down the center of her shirt, the
sharp blade cutting through the fabric like water. She couldn t help the shudders that wracked her
body as he looked her over, his gaze stopping at her breasts hungrily before moving down to the lacy
white panties she wore. She glared at him, twisting her wrists against the restraints, not caring as they
bit into her skin.
MacKenzie always did seem to have all the luck. Carlos eyes darkened with lust and he
reached out to tweak her nipple, laughing as she cringed away from him. I wish I had more time to
enjoy you.
Carlos uncorked the small vial and stuck the tip of his pinky inside so only a small amount of
white powder clung to his finger.
You cringe from me now, but you ll be screaming my name before I m finished with you.
The hell I will, she spat.
Unbidden tears filled her eyes as he rubbed the white powder down the center of her chest,
rubbing it into her skin almost lovingly.
It ll always be his name, she said viciously as her body began to tighten, the familiar prickle of
arousal slithering across her skin. You may take my body, but it ll be him I m thinking of.
***
Where the hell is she? Cade asked Declan as his brother got off the phone with one of his men.
Fuck, I can t just stand here waiting. He paced across his living room, waiting for his brother to
give him news.
There was only about an hour left until sunrise, and she d already been gone too long. The phone
call he d gotten from Carlos an hour before had sent all of the agents in the area scrambling. They had
to find Carlos before he followed through on his threat to kill Bayleigh. Because once he killed
Bayleigh, Carlos would be in the wind until he found the perfect opportunity to go after Cade himself.
This was the last chance they had to get him before he disappeared again.
He and Dec had traced Bayleigh s steps to the other side of the trees into an open field, where the
land was being leveled for a new subdivision. There was no trace of her once she left the sandy area,
which meant she had transportation of some kind. Or worse, she was forced to take transportation of
some kind. But he didn t think so.
Carlos had let it slip during his phone call that he had a tracker on her, and that he d been on his
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