72 Hours by Dana Marton

Author:Dana Marton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-05-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

August 10, 21:30

Their situation was getting wilder by the minute. Parker stared at the screen. He shouldn’t be surprised. Nothing that had to do with Kate had ever been easy.

He was only here to save her, but would she come willingly and speedily? Hell no. Always had to save the whole world and then some. Easy was not in the woman’s vocabulary. Still, he could probably have handled it all, except for what—or who—appeared on the computer screen: Piotr Morovich.

He could have done without that complication. “What in hell is he doing now?” he hissed through his lips.

“Know him?” Kate asked.

“Yeah, and it gets worse. He knows me.”

“Nice friends. Who is he?”

“A known anarchist and mercenary. His father was a Russian spy who was assassinated after defecting to France. He hates the Russian government and blames the French for not protecting his father well enough.”

“Is he Tarkmezi?”

“Russian. From Kiev. But lately he’s been hanging around with one of the Tarkmezi warlords.”

“How do you know him?”

He stayed silent.

“I thought the Colonel said you could tell me things.” Her emerald eyes flashed with impatience.

“On a need-to-know basis.”

Her chest expanded as she drew a deep breath, getting ready to singe the hair off the top of his head. He braced himself for it.

“He is part of a group that has taken me hostage.” She drew herself to full height, and even being several inches shorter than he was and much more slightly built, she did manage to look intimidating. “I’m stuck in an explosive-riddled building with him. My life is in danger. I need to know.” The last words were said in a seriously pissed-off diplomat voice.

He drew an uneasy breath. She was right—to a point. And he was only too aware that this was the very issue he had lost her over in the past. “Piotr was looked into as a possible liaison.”

“For what?”

He clamped his lips, aware that he had probably said too much already. He was walking a fine line here. But she was a smart one and, after a moment, put it all together on her own.

“You tried to recruit him to spy for the U.S.?” Her eyes widened.

“I evaluated him. A long time ago.” Recruitment wasn’t his territory. The SDDU had a handful of selected people for that—a task that had to be handled with the utmost delicacy. Since the group was top secret, before they approached anyone and revealed even the slightest information, they had to be a hundred percent sure the possible recruit would say yes.

“And?” She still had that dazed, Alice-down-the-rabbit-hole look on her face.

Made him want to kiss her senseless. Just about everything she did or said made him want to do things he could not, under any circumstance, do. And not all of them had to do with sex. Some had to do with turning back time. Good luck with that.

Or becoming the kind of man that she could love. Don’t go there, McCall.

“Too unstable,” he said, focusing on Piotr. An understatement, really.

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