Sins, Lies & Spies (Black Brothers #2) Read Online Free Page A

He mentored me and gave me a career and new life.
    For the most part, we had a good working relationship. I liked him, and I admired how hard he worked. As the months progressed, forty hours a week turned into sixty, then ninety. On particularly late nights, I slept in his guest room. One night he kissed me, and somehow we ended up in a relationship. Days bled into months. I thought we were in love and on the road to getting married. Apparently, he didn’t agree. Despite our disastrous ending, I’d continued working with him after he screwed me over. I needed the money for my sister.
    I opened the door to Miles’s house with the key he gave me when we started dating. He never asked for it back, and I never offered. I didn’t want to deal with the permanency of the gesture. Creeping down the hallway, I paused a few times to listen for voices coming from his office. I wished I could avoid this confrontation for another day until I came up with a solid plan to recover the thumb drives from Knox and get into Lang’s house and destroy his computer. He rarely, if ever, connected the computer to the internet, which ruled out hacking as a viable alternative. Besides breaking into Knox’s home and office and stealing the thumb drives and destroying any copies, I didn’t have any promising ideas. I wasn’t looking forward to another confrontation with him either. He unsettled me.
    “Nice of you to finally show your face,” Miles growled, his gravely voice putting me on edge.
    I sent him a brief text last night telling him I hadn’t succeeded and avoided him as long as possible. I wanted to give him time to calm down before we met in person. When his phone calls and text messages escalated to the point of harassment this afternoon, I caved and drove to his house after dinner.
    I rested my hip against the corner of his desk. “I’ve been busy.”
    “Busy avoiding me,” he said. His heated, dark eyes swept over my body. I used to like that look. Now it pissed me off. I curled my hands around the square edge of the desk, just barely resisting the urge to yank on the hem of my skirt. He lost the right to look at me as anything other than a colleague the minute he started screwing his ex-wife on the side while we were together. “You look beautiful as always, Trinity,” he said, his words almost reverent.
    I barely checked the urge to roll my eyes. His compliments were meaningless. “I’ve been working on alternatives to recover the information Knox Black lifted from Lang’s private computer.”
    He chewed on the end of his pen, his eyes never leaving mine. “Have you come up with anything?”
    I rubbed my hand down my neck. “I have some ideas, but nothing definitive at this point.”
    “Now that Knox has the information, we’re on borrowed time. We need to destroy it before he realizes what he has. Otherwise this whole thing will explode in my face.”
    I nodded. “I’m working on it. Give me a couple more days.”
    “We don’t have a couple of days. My client isn’t going to like this.” He tossed his pen on top of the desk. “Hell, I don’t like this.”
    “I know, but unless I shot Knox in front of Representative Lang, it couldn’t be avoided.” My shoulders sagged in defeat, but I quickly rolled them back again. I couldn’t show any weakness around Miles. He was like a shark smelling blood. “Besides, none of this would’ve happened if you hadn’t waylaid me on the way to the party,” I said, trying to turn the tables.
    When I walked out my front door last night to leave for Lang’s house, Miles was waiting for me. He wanted to give me a ride to the party to talk about us. Like so many times over the last month, we exchanged barbs, and I ended up being late.
    He leaned back in his chair and propped his hands behind his head. “You knew Knox Black getting to the computer first was a possibility. It shouldn’t have mattered. We had a backup plan. Why didn’t you stick to it?”
    Stalling, I