Page 92 of Cherished By the Sinners

Brian put up his hands.“Okay, okay.I’ll eat and sleep.I promise.”

Mason got to his feet.“Yvgeny’s car will arrive soon.”He bent down and kissed Darlene like they were naked and in bed.

Brian had to turn his head away.Finding that kind of passion with a woman was something he had yet to experience.He wasn’t sure he could bring a woman into the strange world he inhabited.

It was dangerous, fascinating, and downright treacherous.

Mason pulled away, but not before he whispered something in Darlene’s ear.

She smiled at him and said at a normal level of volume, “I love you.”

Brian focused on the security feeds.He did not want to witness one of the most dangerous dudes he’d ever met, melt into a gooey puddle at Darlene’s feet.He didn’t look up until after the door closed.

Darlene was still smiling.

Ugh.

A black limo entered the hotel’s parking garage.It came to a stop at the employee’s entrance.The door opened and Yvgeny got out, Samantha joined him, and they hurried inside.

“Something is wrong,” Brian said absently.

“What?”Darlene asked.

“I know Yvgeny, and his body language is...too stiff, and he’s moving a little too fast.”

“Yes,” Anna agreed.“I’m going to go meet him and Sam.Neither of you is to leave this room, understood?”

“Yes, ma’am,” Darlene answered.

Brian echoed her.

Anna nodded and left.

“So, how much do you know?”he asked Darlene.

“How much doyouknow?”she asked him.

He studied her for a moment.“Mason is in love with you.Therefore, you know everything.”

She examined him in return.“Is it so terrible, knowing?”

“Oh yeah, especially when you can’t tell anyone because they won’t believe you.So, you get to think about it all by yourself until you’re convinced you’ll go mad.”

“There’s a simple solution to that,” she said.

“Really, what is it?”

“Don’t tell anyone.”

“I’m an FBI agent, I’m supposed to find out shit on people and give that info to my supervisor.”That was his job, but telling his boss about the Brezniks and the Chinese ladies, and the Japanese didn’t feel right.

“Homeland Security tried that, look where it got them.”

Dead or in jail, that’s what it got them.

“I know, I was there.”

“So, what’s the problem?”