Gale, Avery - Katarina's Return [The ShadowDance Club 1] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Avery Gale Read Free Book Online

her first clients had been Cal-Corp Industries. At their wide-eyed expression, she conceded she’d been ignorant to the rumors about their true sources of revenue. All she’d known was that they’d been willing to pay her huge sums of money to design and maintain various web pages for different branches of their business. Working with them had been easy at first; they’d only met via webcam, and all payments had been made by direct deposit. They’d always sent information to her either electronically or by messenger, so she hadn’t had any personal contact with anyone from the company for almost the first four years of her contract. But during the last year, things had gotten much more complicated.
    Thinking back over the years she’d done work for Cal-Corp, Kat was again amazed at how easily she’d been led right in to the middle of a nightmare that she still couldn’t completely wrap her mind around. She tried to explain how it had started when they requested that she design a site to deal with young woman wanting to “study abroad.” The site was supposed to tell prospective women about opportunities to “earn free room and board” in return for “simple household or nanny duties.” They’d added little changes along the way that together threw up huge red flags, but when they’d been brought forth so subtly and several weeks and months apart, they’d all failed to alert her to the true purpose of the site.
    Colt was the first to interrupt her. “So it never occurred to you that they might be running a sex slave trafficking business via the web page you’d designed and were maintaining?” His disbelief was obvious from his tone, and she stiffened at the accusation.
    “Well, no, I guess I was naïve, but when you aren’t a criminal yourself, you don’t always know how they think.” She glared back at him, she didn’t care if he thought she was accusing him of being less than a stellar citizen because he’d seen it so quickly, she didn’t need to justify herself to him, and the sooner he decided she wasn’t worth the effort, the sooner he’d ignore her long enough for her to slip past him and his merry band of prison guards.
    Colt returned her glare as she continued to explain in as much detail as she could remember how she’d come to start talking to Cal Robertson, the son of electronics mogul Calvin Robertson, Sr. She hesitantly added that they had long chats about everything; she’d considered Cal a friend, and when she had confided her interest in BDSM during one of their many late-night chats, he’d told her he’d be happy to answer all her questions, as he had a lot of experience in the lifestyle.
    God, could this be any more humiliating? Here she sat, telling all these men how she’d chatted up a virtual stranger about her interest in all things kinky. And two of the men were ones she’d been in love with since she’d been a junior high school girl with stars in her eyes, adoring her best friend’s older brothers from afar. While they’d always been polite, they’d never really seemed to take much notice of her. They’d been six years older than she and Jenna, so seeing them when they’d been home from college had always been the highlight of her summer and Christmas breaks. Even though a part of her wanted to just sit back and drift through her memories of those happier times in her life, she shifted in her seat and continued.
    By the time Kat had explained everything, well, almost everything, about how she’d come to be at the BDSM club in Las Vegas where Cal had decided to show her how refusing him would be dealt with, she was beyond exhausted. Leaning her head against Zach’s shoulder, she let her eyes close slowly. Somewhere in the back of her mind she heard Alex say, “Gentlemen, I believe Katarina needs to rest now. You have enough information to begin your investigation. Since you have retrieved her computer from her car, please begin there. We need to gather