Free Dirty Little Lies: A Men of Summer Novel by Lora Leigh

information even Vinny Maddox doesn’t have. As far as he knows, the traitor was high-level Kin. The information Alexander had from Benjamin at the time pointed to possible Maddox family involvement. Close relatives, possibly one of the cousins who oversees top-level security.”
    Brooding, dangerous. The expressions on the faces of his brothers changed with that information.
    “No names were mentioned?” Jazz asked, fingering the flash drive.
    Zack shook his head. “Benjamin was keeping the information to himself. He told Alexander he wanted to confirm it. Supposedly that was what he was doing the night he and my parents were murdered.” Zack sat back in his chair, one finger tapping at the wooden arm of the seat as he narrowed his eyes on the files for a moment. “Vinny has known my identity for years. Vinny knew, and he trusted Cord with the information. The twins and Grace are aware of it now as well. We’ll see if it goes any further—though, honestly, I can’t see Deacon, Sawyer, or Grace being in league with a traitor. It just doesn’t fit. We know Luce was involved in the murders, but according to her interrogation, she didn’t give the orders. Though she also swore she didn’t know who gave them and that one I just don’t believe.”
    He couldn’t make Luce’s accusations that Grace was involved fit, and he’d tried. Grace had barely been five when her father died, but she’d idolized him; she would never have betrayed his memory in such a way. Deacon and Sawyer could be wild cards, but like Cord, they’d had many chances to betray the family and hadn’t done so.
    “If Grace were a traitor, she would have given Kenni up as soon as she realized who she was, two years ago,” Jazz murmured. “Killing Kenni before the family realized who she was would have been imperative. Besides, Grace sees Vinny and those boys as her only family. You’re right, she wouldn’t turn on them.”
    “So how do you intend to draw a traitor out, Zack?” Slade asked somberly.
    Zack nodded to the files. “During her interrogation, Luce swore Grace had the files her father hid and she was just waiting for the right time to sell the sensitive Kin information that was hidden on it, as well as the identity of the traitor. I can keep the Brighams from coming after her by claiming her as my lover—the traitor and missing information, we’ll have to figure out for ourselves.”
    And that was going to be the hard part. Hell, “hard” part? It could become impossible if he didn’t play his cards right. Somehow he was going to convince an unknown traitor that Grace was giving him the information. That she was becoming so enamored of him that she was willing to believe in his claims of hating the Kin and the agency enough to betray them.
    “You’re going to need help,” Jazz pointed out. “It won’t work if you try to gung-ho this and go it alone. You’re gonna need your back covered.”
    “Hell, he’s gonna need all four sides covered,” Slade snorted. “Very covertly while still giving the appearance that he and Grace are working alone. Then we sit back and listen to the rumors that start making their way to us.”
    Zack nodded, then rubbed at the back of his neck. “They still haven’t found Grace’s assailant. The team sent out after him reported in last night, and there’s no sign of him. No way he managed to get out of the county without being seen.”
    There wasn’t so much as a deer path that wasn’t being watched by Kin after the attack. The search for Richard James was one of the most intense manhunts Alex had seen in the area.
    “I have a feeling, once I have Grace in my house and our traitor is convinced she’s mine, he’ll make a move. Everyone believes I have no love for Kin and pure hatred for the Brigham family. They’ll believe I can be had and so can any information Grace has. I just have to play the game right and make sure Grace plays her part.”
    “Without breaking her heart,”