LUKE: Complete Series by Cassia Leo Read Free Book Online Page B

cock into me.
    “Oh, my God!” I cried.
    “Oh, fuck. You’re so fucking hot.”
    He pulled out and flipped me onto my stomach. He pressed his chest against my back and I shivered as he kissed the back of my shoulder and lifted my leg as he slid into me from behind.
    “What I said earlier,” he said, as his lips moved up my shoulder to the back of my neck. “What I meant to say is… I love you.”
    I turned my head to look at him as he sank slowly in and out of me. His face was not the face of a man who expected me to say anything in return—but I did. “I love you, too.”

    “How did it go? I want every fucking detail.”
    Milo was dressed in the usual gray Armani suit with the usual black tie. One thing he had on Luke was his fashion sense. The man dressed better than I did. He sat across from me at La Parilla Mexican restaurant with his ankle crossed over his knee as he leaned back in his chair, completely at ease with himself. He sipped his forty-dollar glass of top-shelf tequila as I contemplated my options.
    I could hand over Josh’s phone and secure my career with NeoSys. I could ensure that my parents would never go hungry and maybe I could even afford to get my mother a therapist, which she refused to do after my brother’s suicide. I could pay for the best treatment money could buy if my father did indeed have cancer. Or I could tell Milo I didn’t find anything and tomorrow I could pretend to find Josh’s phone on Luke’s boat.
    “It was just a bunch of geeks sitting around, getting shit-faced, and telling jokes about binary code.”
    “They didn’t say anything about Blaze?”
    The waitress arrived at our table and set our plates of fajitas in front of us. I grabbed my fork and immediately began digging into my food.
    “Hello, Brina? I asked you a fucking question? Did they talk about Blaze?”
    “I don’t know,” I said, through a mouthful of food. “Maybe… they might have. I couldn’t really keep track of everything. It’s as if they have some kind of code of silence around this thing.”
    Milo leaned over his plate, practically getting in my face. “Of course, they do! They signed a fucking nondisclosure agreement. That doesn’t mean they don’t talk about it amongst themselves.”
    “Well, I’m not one of them!”
    “Your job is to be one of them.”
    I set my fork down and wiped my mouth with my napkin. “They never talk about it in front of me. Even when they were drunk, they were unbreakable. I didn’t find anything.”
    “Are you sure you’re not getting too close to this guy?”
    “ What? I’m not stupid, Milo. I know what’s at stake here.”
    He glared at me with his dark eyes and it took all my willpower not to look away.
    “Are you going to tell Kip to take me off this assignment?”
    “Is that what you want?”
    I stared at my bottle of beer and my eyes followed the drop of condensation as it slid down the bottle, and the memory of Luke and I making love as the rain tapped a relentless beat on the deck above us came back to me. I didn’t know if what I had with Luke was real. I didn’t know if he was stringing me along to see if I would actually follow through with this plan. I didn’t know if he really had no idea why I was there, though I found that hard to believe.
    What I did know was that I was in far too deep to destroy what Luke and I had. I would rather lose my career and have my heart broken, then throw Luke to the NeoSys wolves.
    But what I wanted didn’t matter anymore.
    “No. I want this assignment. I just need some more time.”
    More time to figure out if I could bury this desire, this addiction long enough to put my family’s needs before my own.
    “They’re announcing Blaze at the developers’ conference in six weeks. I’m going to ask Kip to give you one more week. If you don’t deliver by then, I’m going to recommend he pulls you out ASAP.”
    “I understand.”
    “And, Brina,” he began, his eyes softening. “I know you