Bulletproof SEAL by Carol Ericson

Author:Carol Ericson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-12-12T18:37:26+00:00

Chapter Ten

Quinn’s eyes popped open. “What are you talking about? How did you come to that conclusion?”

Rikki looked over his shoulder. She didn’t trust Belinda Dawson one iota. “Let’s keep moving. She could be calling the CIA or your cell phone number as we speak.”

Quinn continued on the sidewalk, excitement lengthening his stride so that she had to hold on to his arm to keep up with him.

With a slight pant, she said, “It was that picture.”

“The vacation picture from the Bahamas?”

“That wasn’t the Bahamas. Did you get a load of that water? Looked like some muddy rice paddy in Southeast Asia.”

“You’re saying that’s a recent picture of David? One taken after his supposed death in North Korea?”

“That’s exactly what I’m saying.”

“How could you possibly know that? Because of an imagined rice paddy?”

“Wait for the car. I’m not blabbing this on the sidewalk, even if there is nobody else around.”

By the time they reached the car, sweat was dampening Rikki’s back. She ripped off her jacket, and Quinn did the same.

Once in the car with the engine and the air running, Rikki bounced in her seat and turned toward Quinn. “It’s not the place. It’s the man and more specifically the tattoo.”

“That tattoo on his chest? He didn’t have that before?”

“Nope. The last time I saw David, right before I witnessed his so-called murder at the hands of the North Koreans, he most definitely did not have a big tattoo on his chest—a tattoo of a phoenix, I might add.”

“You’ve seen David Dawson’s chest?”

Her cough turned into a laugh. “That’s all you can focus on? Of course I’ve seen David’s chest. You know how scorching it gets in Korea, and all the other hot spots we’ve been in around the world. You’ve been in some of the same hot spots. I’ve seen him without his shirt several times, and I can say unequivocally the man never had a tattoo. Why Belinda keeps that picture around is beyond me. Beyond stupid.”

“You don’t think it could’ve been one of those temporary tattoos, do you?”

Compressing her lips into a thin line, Rikki tilted her head. “Really? The man is forty-four, not eight.”

Quinn pulled away from the curb, his brows creating a vee over his nose. “David set up this Korea trip for the two of you with the cover that he had a line on Vlad. That got him money and support from Ariel. He engineered his own death, while fingering you as a traitor at the same time. Why you?”

Rikki’s knees bounced. “Because of just that—the Vlad story was a cover and if nothing came of it, I’d be a witness.”

“If nothing came of it, he could claim his sources fell through. Happens all the time.”

Quinn snapped his fingers several times. “This trip was David’s opportunity to turn, to go over to the other side. He fakes his death so nobody is looking for him, and he sets up his partner so she takes the fall for being the traitor...and he gets his revenge.

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