Dangerous Trio (Part One)

By Jana Leigh

Bailey is a boring girl with a boring life that is until she discovers she has been working for a mob family. Who knew that the mob was real anymore? Bailey decides she needs to run before they can discover she knows their secrets, everything she has ever read about organized crime has told her she is going to be a sitting target, a single woman on her own. When she jumps into Noah's cab she had no idea how that would change her life. The shy accountant has to come to terms with the fact that Noah and his life partner Dallas, not only wants to help her, they want to love her. Bailey has no idea what she is getting herself into; she only knows she needs help.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jana Leigh
• Release date: Jul 13, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452358550

Jana Leigh

Jana Leigh lives in Colorado surrounded by her family and friends. She loves writing and meeting new people!

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Dangerous Trio

Part One

By Jana Leigh

Edited by Kerri Good

Published by JLK

Smashwords Edition

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This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, organizations, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Part One: Bailey, Dallas, and Noah’s Story

Part Two: Calli, Steve, and Jolly’s Story

Part Three: Ginny and Andres Story

Chapter 1

She needed to get the hell out of here and quick. Bailey was alone for now but someone could show up anytime, she had been here too long as it was. She looked around the office she had for the last few years to make sure it looked like she had not been in yet. She was depressed when she noticed there were very little personal items she wanted to take with her. She was an accountant for a travel agency in Denver, Colorado. It was supposed to be a boring and steady job to go along with the life she planned, but it dawned on her just how boring her life had become.

Bailey had enough trauma and upheaval when she was young to last her a lifetime. Her parents were killed in a robbery in the store they owned when she was five years old. She was the only witness to the murder of her parents, and had no family to speak of since her parents were both only children and their parents were dead too. They had been unable to find someone to take her after the incident, so she had ended up in the system, scared, alone and traumatized. She found herself on her own when she was fifteen and made her way through college by herself, working waitressing jobs and cleaning houses to survive.

Bailey had been at the top of her college class when she graduated. She planned her life down to the smallest detail; she chose accounting because there was no excitement in that field. Who would have thought a travel agency could be corrupt? She was usually such a good judge of character, the elderly man who hired her seemed so nice, like her own fairy grandfather. She now knew he was the head of the Digrossi family from New York.

When she was doing an audit last week, she found a file on her employer's computer, thinking it was a new venture she had downloaded it and took it home to get organized. When she opened it last night, warning bells had gone off when she read the amount of money going from an offshore account to the agency account and back. Bailey thought she was mistaken, and had come in at three this morning to try to see what she had downloaded. What she found was more of the same illegal transactions from one account to another that were not explained.

Bailey remembered when Caesar Digrossi came to her when she was a senior at Colorado State University. She craved a family so bad. When this cute little old man came to the college asking for help with his new business, the professor had directed him to her and she grabbed the opportunity with both hands. She could have had her pick of any job she wanted, but she chose a small job with the old man. She had just completed her exams and was going to start looking for a job when he showed up asking for help establishing a company in Colorado. He seemed so unassuming in baggy clothes and a cane, giving her a lemon drop when she coughed from a dry throat. He was a small statured man and she immediately wanted to help him because he looked like a grandfather should.

So wrapped up in her fantasy, Bailey started out right from graduation helping him get his company off the ground. He told her his family in New York refused to help him because of his age. She disliked them from the start, thinking they ignored the old man unless they wanted something. She was always getting phone calls from them, asking for money, but never asking to talk to Caesar personally. They just wanted the cash and never cared how he was doing. What kind of family would do that? She took it upon herself to make sure the man was taken care of. She arranged for a cook and a cleaner to take care of his house and she attended every birthday, anniversary, and holiday at his house. His family was never in attendance, only she was at every important event.

Bailey was heartbroken last night when she found his real name on a file in his computer. Caesar was his first name but instead of Branner, which she had always thought his last name was, she found his family name was really Digrossi. After looking on the internet for hours, she had read all of the history of the family. It was not hard to find since the family was notoriously known in New York for being one of the cruelest families to have ever been in the mob. They were all investigated regularly for trafficking and arms dealing. The feds had never been able to make a charge stick because the paper trail always dried up. That was because she had been covering it here in Colorado, not New York. Bailey thought she had done the books for a successful start-up travel agency when she was really cleaning millions of dollars in dirty money daily for a mobster. What a dope she had been. All she wanted was a quiet life, with a family, and she thought she was well on her way to getting that too. Caesar and his company had helped her find that and it was gone in the blink of an eye.

She needed to get all the files she could and get the hell out of the office before Caesar and Bruce came in for the day. Bruce, her boyfriend, was not who she thought either. He was Bruno, another member of the Digrossi family on the run. Bailey shook her head and thought the last five years of her life were a lie. She had no one to blame but herself, because damnit she wanted to believe they were good people. She finished copying the entire file she could find and then bent down to gather her purse. Thankfully, she was hidden when she heard the outer door slam, because Bailey was no longer alone.

She heard rather than saw Caesar and Bruno come into the office. She could see their shoes beneath her desk. They came closer to her door, which stood open, so she would be able to move freely around and hear if someone came into the office. Unfortunately, she never left her door open at the end of the day, so it was like a red flag waving to the men that she was here.

Bailey? She heard the old man call. She squished farther under her desk so unless they came all the way into her office and around the desk, they would not be able to see her.

Did you find her? Caesar called to Bruno.

No, but she was on all the computers sometime over the night. Bruno said grimly.

Are you sure? She may have been just working late; you know the audit was due. Caesar said softly.

"Caesar, you know she is not stupid. I told