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you hate him, but – ”
    “Are you about to tell me something about Dane?”
    As far as I knew, there was no one Jake hated more than Dane McNulty.  I wasn’t completely sure why – I knew from Sawyer that Dane ran some kind of shady side business.  I knew that several of the other boys agreed he was the scum of the Earth because he had no morals or code of ethics and spoke to every pretty girl he saw as if he owned her.  There was certainly no arguing that Dane was a complete and utter piece of shit.
    But it had dawned on me last night that I needed him.
    I needed him on my side.  He was the one who had referred our hired home intruder to Jackson.  He had seen Jackson with Gabrielle years ago and when they were still friends, had probably spoken to him about the affair.  Whatever information he had, I wanted it.  Needed it.
    And now, I had an excuse for going to him to get it.
    He knew my engagement was on the rocks.  He had been the one to put it there by telling me about how he’d seen Jackson and Gabrielle together two years ago.  I could easily go to him pretending to be angry at my fiancé, and in desperate need of answers.  And comfort.
    I knew Dane.  Like the rest of the boys in Jackson’s circle, he was prideful and easily swayed by a damsel in distress.  Plus, he and Jackson were no longer on speaking terms.  It would be logical for me to go to him secretly and gripe about my fiancé whose guts we both hated.  It was the perfect plan.  But when I finished telling Jake, he shook his head.
    “No.”
    “What do you mean no?” I laughed.
    “Lara.  Dane is the last person you want to owe a favor to.  I promise you.  And he isn’t someone I’d feel good about you being alone with.  I know Jackson wouldn’t either and we’d both be right.  He’s a manipulative prick who’d throw his own mother under the bus to get what he wanted.”
    “Exactly.  I want information on Jackson and Dane will happily give it to me if I drink and bat my eyelashes with him for long enough.”  I continued before Jake could interrupt me.  “I know what you’re going to say.  He’s going to want more.  I know that.  But I’ll just have Sloane call me at a specific time with some ‘emergency’ and I’ll go.  She and I always do this for each other.”
    Jake ran a hand across his jaw as he stared out the window and down at the green fields.  “Are you going to be in public?”
    “Preferably at his office, where there’ll be tons of people, I’m sure.”
    Jake pressed his lips into a firm line.  I could tell he still wasn’t convinced.  “You’ll still be in some room alone with him.  And you know that piece of shit has no boundaries.  Especially since he starts drinking by pretty much noon every day.”
    “Trust me, I know about his drinking, and I’m going to use it to my advantage,” I said, studying the worry that tensed Jake’s square jaw and broad shoulders.  I reached across to rub his distress away.  Despite the fact that he tilted his head down to kiss my arms, I didn’t feel him relax.
    “I don’t know, Lara. I don’t think it’s a good idea to go to Dane for anything,” he murmured gravely.
    I looked him in the eye with a vague smile.  “But I’m going to.”
    Jake stared at me with disapproval creasing his brow.  But then he leaned in and pressed a kiss on my lips.  “I know,” he said, his voice hard but his touch soft.  “I’d never dream of telling you what to do.  I’d only make sure to be there every time in case you needed me.  And I have a feeling that with Dane, you will.  So whenever you decide to do this, Lara, tell me,” he said before kissing me again.  “Please.”
    “Okay,” I lied as I kissed him back.  “I will.”

Chapter Eight
    Lara
    The next morning, without telling a soul, I went to Dane’s office.  My nerves were enough of a wreck without knowing that someone was planted somewhere, anxiously waiting for my return.  So I