Bullseye by Andersen Jessica

Author:Andersen, Jessica [Andersen, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-02-07T00:32:26+00:00

ONCE THEY WERE INSIDE the six-room town house— Lance’s town house, Jacob growled internally, not sure that he bought the plant-sitting excuse and trying to tell himself it didn’t matter one way or the other—they set up the surveillance equipment they’d brought from Montana.

If they were very, very lucky, the bug in Cooper’s office would give them a clue as to where his wife and children were being held, where a ransom drop would happen…or even who was masterminding the plot.

Because the more Jacob thought about it, the less likely it seemed that Boone Fowler was acting on his own. It wasn’t just that the scheme had international implications, it was the feel of the incidents.

Boone normally worked near his roots in Montana. The danger had followed Jacob and Isabella to D.C.

The MMFAFA focused on domestic terror. Cooper’s flip-flop on the Lunkinburg policy suggested pressure was being applied from without.

And wouldn’t logic say that Boone and his men would lie low after escaping from The Fortress?

“Hell,” Jacob muttered under his breath. “It doesn’t add up unless there’s someone else involved.”

Someone like King Aleksandr.

“What did you say?” Isabella asked, reentering the room with a pair of sodas and an open bag of chips, which she placed on a nearby table.

“Nothing.” He deliberately turned his attention to the portable surveillance equipment, but his every sense was attuned to her presence, to her movements, to her small hiss of frustration when he shut her out.

Why didn’t she get that it was for both their protection?

He was in a good place now, a calm place both professionally and emotionally, and he’d worked hard to get there. And though he’d glimpsed a spark of loneliness or something darker in her eyes when she’d spoken of her work and her life, he sensed that prior to the incident with Cooper, she’d been content. Settled. Two things they had never been together, when they’d come together in flash and flame and all-consuming, greedy need. He hadn’t been able to handle the intensity as an almost college grad and he had no intention of finding out if he could handle it now.

He was pretty sure he already knew the answer to that.

“You all set up?” she asked from way too close behind him.

Jacob stiffened reflexively and stepped away from the bugging equipment, ticked by his body’s instantaneous response every time she came near.

“Yeah.” He jammed his hands into his pockets. “We’re ready to go live.”

But live was an overstatement once they flipped on the receiver and heard only dead air.

They listened for a minute before Isabella whispered, “Do you think the bug’s malfunctioning?”

“It’s not a speaker phone, Iz. You can talk normally,” he said a little too loud.

She jumped, then chuckled at herself. “Right,” she said, not whispering now. “Sorry. I’m not usually asked into the surveillance jobs.” Before he could ask why, or why the fact brought a hint of temper to her expression…and a glimmer of vulnerability, she continued, “Can your equipment tell you if the bug’s functioning properly?”

“Yes, it can, and yes, it is,” he answered.

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