[Stealth Ops 08] • Chasing Fortune by Sahin Brittney

Author:Sahin, Brittney [Sahin, Brittney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Suspense
ISBN: 9798688089134
Goodreads: 55629490
Publisher: EmKo Media, LLC
Published: 2020-09-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

“Carter Dominick?” Harper blinked, a look of disbelief on her face. “CIA Carter Dominick? The one who left the Agency about two and a half years ago and went rogue? That Carter?”

“I was wondering if you’d know of him.” Rory sat in front of the fire using her folded-up rain jacket for a cushion on the rocky ground. Her skin was pink and glowing from sitting so close to the flames.

Chris peered at Roman, trying to get a read on him. What’d he know about Carter? Anything?

Who the hell was their adversary?

Andrew Cutter? The Italian? Or this Carter guy?

Fuck, he hoped “all of the above” wasn’t the answer to this multiple-choice question.

“We worked an op together maybe seven years ago in Costa Rica.” Harper squeezed her eyes closed as though mentally doing the math. She’d most likely worked a ridiculous number of ops between then and now. “Took down a smuggling ring together, actually.”

Smuggling? That can’t be coincidental. “We were worried the ambush of Santiago’s transport might have been an inside job because the officers escorting him were left unharmed. But after hearing this, do you think Carter could be our guy?” Chris was familiar with the name, but not because Carter was CIA. He tried to catch hold of a memory that wasn’t quite forming clearly. “Maybe Carter had a CIA contact who gave him the transport information.”

“I don’t know what kind of criminal activity Carter has been involved with since he left the Agency,” Harper responded, “but I can’t imagine why he’d be interested in a smuggler like Santiago.”

“Personal tragedy often changes people. Maybe losing his wife turned him into someone else.” Chris’s tone grew dark at the idea of what Carter had gone through.

“Carter was Delta Force before joining the Agency,” Harper said.

Delta Force. Now Chris remembered the particulars about Carter.

It wasn’t every day a former Delta guy turned CIA, disappeared, and was then pegged as having gone rogue.

“After his wife was murdered,” Harper continued, “he went off-the-grid. Rumors are he became a criminal himself, but I can’t be certain. Carter’s wife’s family was wealthy, though. Picture the Kennedys but with more money,” she added. “I think Carter’s wife hoped her husband would be POTUS someday.”

“Thinking that ship has sailed,” Chris said and kept his eyes on Rory. “How’d his wife die?”

“Home invasion. She was savagely murdered.” Harper paused for a moment as if paying her respects. “Police and Feds brushed it off as a burglary. There’d been a string of similar break-ins around D.C. in the previous months, but Carter refused to believe it.”

A multitude of emotions flooded Chris when he thought back to waking up on the yacht yesterday with no idea if Rory was still alive. If he’d been Carter, what would he have done if he’d come home to find his wife brutally murdered?

He suddenly had a sour taste in his mouth and felt like he was about to lose the fish he’d eaten.

“And why would Carter think you could help him find her killer?” Harper asked.

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