Assassin's Heart: Black Ops Former Military Romantic Suspense Novel by Isabel West

Author:Isabel West [West, Isabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-07-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

Kathleen spent the rest of the morning working with Finn.

It started with her questioning Finn on every location, every name, and every company he could think of related to Special Operations Covert Command. She had Finn trawling through online photographs to put names to faces—he knew only one—the name of his Handler, Michael Milford, and even that took coaxing for Finn to produce.

Seated on the bed, Finn had the laptop balanced on his thighs. The pen Kathleen had been jotting down notes with had long fallen still as she gazed at him, drinking in the line of his freshly shaven jaw and the slant of his brow as he concentrated.

Looking at him now, seeing him so at ease, she was certain it wasn’t fear that made Finn hold back, silencing his tongue and stilling his body so often. This was more than training, more than reflexive habit. Mental conditioning, Gibson had said—and she believed it. There were ticks in Finn’s behavior, things that seemed beyond his control and choice.

Kathleen knew in her bones he didn’t want to hurt her—and yet when he had broken free of that first restraint on the bed and turned her way, there had been nothing of Finn Kingsley in his gaze. It was the Hound. And the Hound was a killer.

Even the memory of it made her want to shudder, as did the survival instinct that made her shoot. She was sure she wouldn’t, but when she felt the remote, deadly stare of the Hound land on her, she knew she had no choice. She didn’t think she started breathing until he saw her, and she saw him—Finn—looking out from those troubled blue eyes of his.

It was true when Kathleen said she was afraid for him. That didn’t mean she wasn’t also terrified of the idea of a black ops, government-backed—if not sanctioned—agency with brainwashed, deadly soldiers under their control. It was the stuff of nightmares. And no matter what, it was clear that Wilson was tied into all of this.

Finn’s mouth ticked, lips twitching.

Kathleen stared at him, and he knew it. She braced herself for teasing, for the weakness of wanting to think about him rather than the task at hand, but no such words came.

Instead, Finn reached out, his hand touching her knee even as he kept his gaze on his hand. “I’m sorry about your partner. I didn’t like the way he looked at you. The way I felt when he looked at you. I wanted to hurt him.” He paused. “A not small part of me still wants to.”

The admission caught her by surprise, especially since Finn rarely showed his emotions openly. “Are you jealous?”

Finn was silent, a frown touching his lips as his gaze shifted into the middle distance. She had seen him do this before, testing his awareness of the emotion, fitting it to what he knew. He was putting a name to something he’d barely understood before.

It made her heart ache and redoubled the heat of anger she felt toward Command.

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