Chapter 243

“Of course. And you are responsible men. But I am simply a lost woman, who is all alone and now very curious. Certainly there would be no harm in letting me peek? And it will…what is the word? Arouse me to see it.”

The two men exchanged a glance. Then they grinned at one another.

“All right, baby. Just a peek. You’ll reward us for it?”

She smiled their way. “Of course.”

The dark man punched numbers into the keypad, releasing the lock on the temperature-controlled unit. The other guy helped him push the door up. The lights flashed on. And there sat Geraldo Montilla’s prized possession, shiny, pristine, and candy-apple red.

Laila gasped and touched her chest again. “Que carro más lindo.”

“Huh?” The blond guy frowned.

“What a beautiful car,” she supplied as she sauntered closer. “The more I look at it, the more I become”—she licked her lips, then bit the bottom one as if she held in a secret she could keep no more—“wet. Who will help me with th