Bodyguards in Bed by Jamie Ann Denton & Lucy Monroe & Elisabeth Naughton

Author:Jamie Ann Denton & Lucy Monroe & Elisabeth Naughton [Denton, Jamie Ann & Monroe, Lucy & Naughton, Elisabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General
ISBN: 9780758210333
Publisher: Brava
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Going against everything she knew about herself, Alyssa sat in absolute stillness. And waited.

Perched on the edge of the blue velvet chair, quietly absorbing the activity around her, she impressed the hell out of herself. Waiting was, as a rule, not something she did well. Patience never had been her strong suit.

The two big, scary bad guys, Milo Simms and Gordon French, had been taken away by a pair of uniformed officers with the Manhattan Beach Police Department. Turned out they never were the hired guns of Bastian Pharmaceuticals. Instead, they were private investigators, licensed to carry firearms, who’d been retained by the federal prosecutor, Kyle Houston, to keep tabs on Charles Rolston. When she and the guy she’d believed to be Charles Rolston had run, Simms and French had wrongly assumed they were trying to give them the slip in order to avoid testifying at the criminal trial.

She’d overheard the detective from MBPD say Simms would be free to go, but there was still the issue of French firing on a federal agent. French claimed said federal agent had fired first, but she knew that was a line of crap. Even if she’d bothered to open her mouth on the subject, she still had a feeling the charges against French would eventually be dropped.

Still, if the big lug hadn’t fired at them in the first place, they might have discovered much sooner that they were essentially on the same team. But then nothing about the last eighteen hours had gone as it should have, starting with her assuming sexier-than-sin Special Agent Noah Temple was Rolston.

She should’ve trusted her instincts. She’d known he didn’t look like a Charles. He wasn’t a Chas or a Chuck either. He was Noah Temple, a special agent from the FBI’s White-Collar Crimes Unit based in Quantico, Virginia.

And he was the worst kind of liar.

Too bad for him, she now hated the name Noah, too.

With their small hotel room packed to the gills with law enforcement personnel, she hadn’t had a chance to tell him what she really thought of him. But she could wait.

From what she’d gleaned from the various conversations going on around her, she might be waiting until God knew when to give the man a piece of her mind because the situation was a jurisdictional nightmare. There were two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s investigators, a detective from the Manhattan Beach Police Department, along with three uniforms and one sergeant from his department. A supervisory agent from the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office had been called in, as had someone from the federal prosecutor’s office. In addition, the local FBI had notified Homeland Security.

In her opinion, the whole mess was nothing more than a macho pissing match that she wanted no part of. In fact, the sooner she got the hell out of there, the happier she’d be. Sort of. Only problem was, she wasn’t going anywhere until she had a word or two with Whatshisname.

She didn’t care if she was pregnant.

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