Pays. Blake was supposed to be all about money, but it didn’t add up. “Is that who you called outside my apartment? Your brother?”

“I called Luke. He’s the middle brother. Royce is the eldest.”

“And you’re the baby of the bunch,” she laughed, unable to stop herself. It was hard to imagine him the baby of anything.

“Glad you’re amused.”

“It’s just…you know. You’re so…impossibly…”

“Impossibly what?”

Hard to resist. “You. You’re you, Blake.” She just wished she knew exactly what that meant. “Is Luke FBI?”

“You know I’m going to make you finish that sentence later, don’t you?”

Please, make me. “You can try.”

He ran a yellow light right as it turned red. “If I’m a smart-ass, you must be a gambler, because you like to push your luck.”

She leaned against the door to face him. “I think that’s what you like about me.”

“It’s why I want to tie you to a bed and keep you there, and yes”—he cut her a look—“there are many ways you could take that, and I mean that in all those ways. And so you don’t start over-analyzing that and asking questions, no, to your prior question. Kyle is ex-FBI. Luke’s an ex-Navy SEAL.”

“And you? What are you, Blake?”

“Ex-ATF,” he said—and with his reply, he confirmed what Kara had known from the start. There was more to him than met the eye.

“ATF,” she repeated. “You’re undercover.”

“Ex, Kara. I’m not ATF anymore.”

This was where she could think he was dirty, but she didn’t. She didn’t believe that for a moment. “You investigated Alvarez when you were with the ATF.” It wasn’t a question. She knew it had to be true.

“Yes.”

She went with her gut and didn’t push for more, at least, not directly. “You and your brothers are an interesting mix of skills. Why did you all leave your prior careers?”

“We opened a private security company. It started with an airport consulting contract that grew into more.”

She didn’t point out that he wasn’t exactly working on an airport job. She pointed out what was important to her, what her instincts had told her from the beginning with Blake. “You’re not a criminal.”

“Not yet.”

“What does that mean?”

He didn’t look at her. “I’m going to kill Alvarez and I don’t care what the consequences are.”