CHAPTER 24-1
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CHAPTER 24
She giggled and pushed him back down onto the pillow. “You know I’m not supposed to talk about that.”
Tiger dropped a candy wrapper on the floor, stretched his arms behind his head, and stared at the ceiling. He wondered what it would be like to live in a mansion where the roof never leaked. “Come on. You said you trusted me.”
“I do.” She smiled flirtatiously.
He never could stand how pointy her chin was. It made her look like some big-nosed Western teenager. Oh, well. He wasn’t with her for her looks. “Come on. Tell me. I just want to know where they all went. I mean, did they all get fired? Did your mistress turn them over to the police? What happened?”
Eve hadn’t stopped that ridiculous giggling. “I already told you, I can’t tell. I’d get in big trouble.”
“Aw, relax a little.” He flashed a smile. She was wearing far too much perfume. “I just want to know where everybody went.”
She lowered her eyes and tried a little too hard to make her eyelids flutter. “You really want to know?” she asked in a low, husky voice.
If he wasn’t so interested in pilfering whatever intelligence she carried around in that airy brain of hers, he might have laughed right in her face. “Yeah.” He lowered his tone to make it as exaggeratedly serious as hers. “I really want to know.”
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