Breathless: A Stalwart Security Series Military Romance: (Follow-up to The Alpha Company Women Series) by Beth Abbott

Author:Beth Abbott [Abbott, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2018-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25 – Lucky

Luciana climbed off the fourth plane in less than twenty-four hours, her legs as shaky as a new-born foal.

She hated small planes at the best of times, but one of the nice things about being as rich as fuck was that at least you got to fly on private jets, that got you from A to B in pretty damn quick time.

Apparently, though, those swanky private jets with bathrooms and bedrooms and decent food, were quite high on the FBI’s watch-list, so if she was going to be travelling around the USA in her hunt for her father’s murderer, according to Pedro, it had to be done ‘under the radar’!

Even now, she wasn’t exactly sure what would have constituted ‘over the radar’, but thanks to her fuckwit of a lieutenant, she had taken three planes and a bus, just to get from LA to the outskirts of Philadelphia.

A bus! What the fuck was the man thinking?

She now had the mother-fucker of all headaches, a crick in her neck that left her barely able to turn her head without wincing, plus pain in her back that it would take Marta a week to massage out!

Shit! Fuck!

Marta!

Why was it that every time she’d closed her eyes in the last twenty-four hours, the only face she could see was the woman who had given her so much in the last few years? The woman who was as close to a friend as it was possible for a cartel boss to have.

The look of shock on Marta’s face as she slid down the wall was the only way Luciana could see her now. But there was something else in Marta’s expression too. Not betrayal, as such… more… disappointment.

That was it. Marta seemed to be disappointed in Luciana, that after all she had done for her boss, Luciana had ended Marta’s life in such a ridiculous and childish fit of temper.

Luciana’s cheeks burned with shame as she realised it was true. She’d killed her friend in what one could only describe as an immature tantrum.

How disgusting a person did that make her?

Oh, she’d killed people before. Holy fuck, she’d probably killed more than a hundred.

But those had been deliberate acts, and for the most part they’d deserved it.

Ok, maybe ‘deserved’ wasn’t entirely true, but at the very least, they’d put themselves in the way of her bullet by virtue of their career choices.

Some of them were cops or with one of the agencies, which in Mexico meant they were either corrupt or idealists. Either way they were a pain in her ass, and highly disposable.

If not law enforcement, then they belonged to a rival cartel, in which case it was almost an obligation to shoot them. Nothing less would have been acceptable to her men.

But that was all so different. That was business.

“Senora?” Pedro’s voice broke into her misery. “There’s a car waiting outside to take us to the hotel.”

“A car?” She scoffed. What was it going to be? A rust-bucket station-wagon?

Pedro

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