Page 13 of Heartbreak Hero

“There’s a shipment from Stewart coming in next Wednesday. Your manager cool with that?”

“She’s fine,” Kevin lied, knowing full well that Sara would freak out if she knew what kind of business he was a front for.

Oh well, what she didn’t know wouldn’t hurt her. And if she ever found out?

Kevin would cross that bridge when he came to it. Right now, he would just enjoy having her around.

Sara had been the one who’d gotten away.

And he aimed to fix that fact.

If she’d let him.

From his spot across from the Velvet Lounge, Levi watched the people coming and going through the front door.

With access to a database holding information, it had been easy to find a Sara Jones who worked at the Velvet Lounge in San Francisco. Her home address had been unknown.

When his cell phone rang with a well-known number, Levi frowned as he answered.

“Huxley.”

“You’re on the radar,” Nash Gibson said.

“Shit.”

“Don’t curse yet until you hear what I have to say,” Nash said.

Levi squeezed the phone and took a slow, quiet breath.

“What’s going on?” he asked.

“A few days ago, you searched for an employee who works at the Velvet Lounge in San Francisco.”

“I did…” Levi said slowly.

“Aries and the local DEA have had that place staked out for months.”

“No fuckin’ way,” Levi groaned. “You’ve got to be shitting me.”

Damn it, this was just his luck.

“Yes way. Is this Sara Jones clean?”

“As a whistle,” he growled.

“Why’d you search for her?”

“She’s a missing person in a case I’m working.”

“Are bodyguards searching for missing people now?” Nash asked with a snort.

“This is a special case. A friend of mine asked me for help.” Levi ran a hand through his hair.

His gut clenched. There could be a few reasons Nash was calling and he knew without a doubt none of them were good. It wasn’t that he wouldn’t go back if they called him in, but he liked his life the way it was at the moment. The only problem was that he wasn’t officially retired from Aries.

“Talk to me. What’s going on in the Velvet Lounge?” Levi said.

“Mainly drugs and money laundering, but there have been suspicions of human trafficking.”

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