Black Widow by Brooke Sivendra

Author:Brooke Sivendra [Sivendra, Brooke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BROOKE SIVENDRA
Published: 2022-12-04T18:30:00+00:00

JAMES

“Jenna is their biological child—” Samuel started as James strode into Samuel’s office.

“That’s not why I’m here,” James said. “Widow is Fred’s younger sister.”

Samuel’s mouth dropped open. “What? How do you know that?”

James pulled out the chair next to Samuel, taking a seat. “I don’t,” he said quickly. “Call it gut instinct . . . But, Fred had a sister he told me he’d lost contact with. He said he hadn’t seen her for years. I knew him and he would never have given up looking for her. Maybe he finally found her . . .” James said bitterly, shaking his head.

“So then, she killed her brother?” Samuel asked.

James heard the doubt in his voice, and he understood it. But, it wouldn’t be the first time a family member had knocked off a sibling.

“Let’s just say Fred had been searching for her for all these years,” James said, thinking aloud. “He becomes a CIA agent, then works his way up to the head of the CIA. Suddenly, he has every resource at his disposal to find his long-lost sister. Then, when he finally does, he realizes she’s the Black Widow. So, what does he do?” James asked, taking a breath. He couldn’t get the words out fast enough.

Samuel didn’t answer, but looked at him expectantly.

“He sends an agent like Lachlan to find her,” James continued. “I’ll bet my life Lachlan was instructed to find her but Fred issued a no-kill order. It’s not a coincidence that Fred asked the CIA’s best assassin to find the world’s best assassin. Assassins think differently, and Lachlan would’ve been able to put himself in her shoes. I think he found her, or he got close enough and Fred was able to, then Black Widow got scared and eliminated Fred.”

“Okay, so why is she back now? Why not live quietly?” Samuel asked. “She’s escaped us—us,” he emphasized. “She knows how to hide but instead she walked back into our lives and is doing a damn good job at making us play her game. Why?”

“For the same reason she eliminated Fred. She’s protecting something, or rather, someone,” James said, his heel bouncing on the ground.

“Jenna,” Samuel said, his voice rising a notch.

James nodded. “Something happened with Jenna, and now Black Widow has been forced to make a move. She’s protecting her asset, and we need to know why. We need to look at all connections between Fred’s family and the Starrings. Maybe they’re just family friends, but there’s a reason Fred knew to go to that house—a reason that Lachlan hadn’t given him.”

“Lachlan knows more than he’s telling us,” Samuel said, rubbing his jaw.

James agreed. “He’s loyal to Fred, which I respect, but the time for loyalty has passed.” James pulled out his phone and called Lachlan’s number.

“Hey, can you come to Samuel’s office now?” James asked, not bothering with a greeting.

“Give me two minutes,” Lachlan said then hung up.

James called Deacon, Cami, and Jarrod. They’d been scheduled to meet in an hour, but James couldn’t sit idly around.

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