All Due Respect by Vicki Hinze

Author:Vicki Hinze [Hinze, Vicki]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance Suspense
ISBN: 9781611942026
Publisher: BelleBooks
Published: 1999-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Just after ten, Julia came into the lab. Seth took one look at her and recalled Lieutenant Janus’s warning. She did look haunted. Haunted, pale, and raw-nerved.

When she came close enough, Seth whispered, “Are you okay?”

“I’m fine, Seth.” She kept walking.

Having learned long ago that any time a woman says she’s fine, hell’s coming to call, Seth leaned against the lab table and watched her walk into her office, close the door, and plop down in her chair. The glass wall between them couldn’t hide the fact that she was haunted and dead tired any more than it could hide the fact that her left arm hung limp across the armrest of her chair. Something had gotten to her in a big way. Was it the lockdown? The sensor-codes theft? The incident at her apartment?

No. She had buried her emotional reactions to those things. He had witnessed that himself. Something else had to have happened. Something that hit her so hard she couldn’t bury her feelings about it. But what?

Matthew still hadn’t returned Seth’s call, but he could just ask her, straight-out. And he would, except Matthew had made it clear that Seth should keep his mouth shut on this, and through the years, Seth also had learned that when a woman says she’s fine, a smart man doesn’t pry or push until she signals she’s ready to talk. He pries or pushes, and she gets her nose out of joint. And a woman’s nose out of joint translates to a man living in misery, getting his ears blistered and his ass chewed, until she gets over it.

Life would be easier if trust could be forced. But it couldn’t, so he’d just have to wait, and hope it came in under its own steam. And he’d have to hope that whatever had happened to her didn’t cause either of them more trouble. Matthew’s willingness to go to the wall for them was about at an end. Seth still had no idea why Colonel Mason had gone out on a limb for them. Had to be because of Julia. She clearly had met with the man and had given him her word on bringing him into the loop if the occasion arose. Why hadn’t she mentioned that to Seth?

Wait. Wait. She had told him. She had gotten the suspect’s time-line list from Mason on the sensor-codes theft.

Seth glanced over at her: Tense, wary, pale, clearly scared stiff—and doing her damnedest to hide it. It was more trouble. Seth would bet his sensor on it. But it wasn’t about Jeff.

No, for Jeff, Julia would go to anyone for help, including the devil himself. Could be the attacker, Karl, something related to Benedetto. Hell, there were a dozen possibilities. So which one, or what, had caused this?

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