Christmas Undercover by Hope White

Author:Hope White
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

TEN

“That’s not true,” Sara said, her face heating with anger. Why couldn’t Bonner support her and admit she had been working on a case?

“Sara, what’s going on?” Will said with a puzzled frown.

“It’s easy, Will,” Nate said. “Your friend here has been lying to us and manipulating us this whole time.”

Will studied her with such pain in his eyes. “You’ve been lying to me?”

Regret coursed through her. No, she had good intentions, even if her execution was off.

“Will.” She leaned forward. “I’m sorry, truly. But I’m doing the right thing here. My boss probably threw me under the bus because he’s tired of me hounding him about tough cases, the criminals that get away.” She glanced over her shoulder at Nate. “You worked in a big city—you know what I’m talking about.”

Nate didn’t answer, so she continued, redirecting her attention to Will, wanting him to know everything.

“LaRouche and Harrington were trying to convince David Price to go along with their plan to distribute a dangerous drug that could kill people. Because of who they are and their influence and who knows what else, they’re going to get away with it. That’s why LaRouche shoved David Price off the cliff—because he was going to walk away from the company, which would have raised suspicion and tanked their stock. So yes, I came out here because I didn’t have enough evidence, and I decided to find more. Call me nuts, call me rogue, I don’t care, as long as I put these guys away before they kill anybody.” She glanced at Nate once more. “Didn’t you ever watch a suspect walk away with a cocky smirk on his face when he should have been in cuffs?”

Nate tapped a pen against his open palm and studied her. “How do you know the drug is dangerous?”

At least he was listening to her. Now if she could get Will to forgive her for lying.

“They were arguing about an anomaly in the test results,” she explained to Nate. “David Price said it wasn’t right, that it could kill people. I recorded it on my phone, which was damaged in my fall. I was hoping a tech could still retrieve the video. That’s my nail in their coffin.”

“What motivated you to follow them into the mountains?” Nate asked.

“An email exchange between LaRouche and the drug testing company. I printed them out. My supervisor said it wasn’t enough.”

“Why not?” Nate said.

“It was too—” she made quote marks with her fingers “—vague.”

She glanced at Will, who still looked like a man who’d just met her for the first time. As if he didn’t recognize her. Shame burned her insides, both for having lied to him, and for putting him in danger.

She shifted in her chair and waited for more questions from Nate.

“He said once you got your teeth into something, you weren’t giving it up,” Nate said. “Even if there was no basis for an investigation.”

“Nice,” she muttered.

“He told you to let this one go,” Nate continued.

“Well, I couldn’t.

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