Bouncer (Bad Boys in Big Trouble Book 2) by Roarke Fiona

Author:Roarke, Fiona [Roarke, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nickel Road Publishing
Published: 2016-02-03T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The incident with Neil and the unusual way he’d been removed from the premises hit Reece like a blow to his breadbasket. How many times had he seen that actual takedown in tactical security seminars over his career? Twenty? More? But then instead of being cool and pondering the possibilities in his head, he blurted out accusatory questions like a first-year recruit.

Given his background, he should have guessed sooner what might be going on. Jessica sidelined his brain, but that wasn’t her fault. It was possible she didn’t have impulsive guests with a burning desire to access to his exclusive club for secret FBI purposes, but he doubted it.

The truth of the situation rested in her current guilt-filled expression.

“I…don’t have you under surveillance.” The brief pause was a giveaway. She was lying.

“I don’t believe you,” he said, hearing the shock in his own voice. It was a knee-jerk reaction because he was so surprised. Truthfully, anything she said would have astounded him.

It wasn’t so much Neil showing up as the way his nerdy-looking friend got him out and into the back of a waiting sedan with darkened windows and government tags. How had that been planned so well, unless the car had already been standing by?

Reece figured there was likely a communications van located somewhere close by with a live visual on the club. They saw Neil come in, went bat-shit crazy and had him hauled out.

Jessica turned away, moving out of his arms half a step. Not good. Was she mad at him? Was he mad at her? Yes. Maybe. No. Not really. He needed to figure his next step out quickly and act accordingly. No need to ruin this evening with bullshit from either of their work lives. In fact, even if she was lying her ass off to him tonight, she didn’t know who he really was either, so he’d been just as deceitful.

If she or her chain of command was running an operation—and they probably were—he didn’t care. It didn’t change much as far as his circumstances were concerned. Arthur was happy because he supposedly had an FBI agent available for consultation on matters for his club, even though Reece wasn’t going to actually feed him any legitimate information from Jessica. If her people were doing a surveillance operation, he should try to help them.

The slow music came to an end and a fast-beat tune started up. Jessica slowly headed off the dance floor. He let her get five steps away while he tried to calculate the best way to repair this foolishness. His feet started moving before he even knew what he’d say. When he got next to her, she didn’t so much hang her head as refuse to look him in the eye for the rest of the trip back to the table.

He walked silently for a few more steps before crowding behind her and stopping her at the edge of the cascade of stairs. He grabbed her and buried his face against her ear.

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