Crazy Sweet by Tara Janzen

Author:Tara Janzen [Janzen, Tara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Suspense, Mystery
ISBN: 9780440242796
Google: 85Jgd1nRMNMC
Amazon: 0440242797
Barnesnoble: 0440242797
Goodreads: 650576
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2006-10-30T13:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

17

G ET A ROPE ON HER,” General Richard “Buck” Grant growled over the phone, and Dylan couldn’t help but agree. It was a damn good idea.

“We’re on it, sir.” Or as “on it” as he could get at the moment. Steele Street was a little shorthanded. Hawkins had left for the airport. Skeeter was manning the communications, and he was taking orders and gearing up to ask a favor. This shit with Royce had gone on long enough.

Too long, actually. Dylan didn’t give a damn whose career was hanging in the balance over at the CIA. He didn’t give a damn how much dirt Royce had on some of those higher-echelon types, or who needed the asshole alive. He hadn’t cared in two years, not since Royce had revealed himself as a traitor. He wanted the man dead.

But except for one small window of opportunity directly after the night Gillian Pentycote had been abducted, when Royce had been fair game, Dylan’s hands had been tied. Tony Royce was off limits, on orders of someone he didn’t dare cross. The price for disobedience was the existence of SDF. Dylan didn’t know who had put the pressure on White Rook to draw SDF off Royce’s trail, but he knew that if they didn’t obey the command, Rook could and would bury the whole team and shut down 738 Steele Street so tight it would take a presidential order for the place to ever see the light of day again.

The party would be over.

Dylan knew it. Grant knew it. And Red Dog knew it. Dylan had been very clear on the subject.

“‘On it’ isn’t good enough, Dylan. I don’t want to lose her because of goddamn Tony Royce, not when we should have taken him out years ago,” Grant said. “But if she’s lured him to Denver and is out there gunning for him, then we’ve got a rogue operator on our hands, and the shit will hit the fan all the way to the Potomac. If she can’t put the welfare of the team ahead of her personal problems, I can’t protect her, and neither can you. Do you understand?”

“Yes, sir.” He did. He understood perfectly. “I won’t know for sure what happened in El Salvador until we make contact with Rydell.”

“Then do it.”

“We’re trying.”

“Do better than try. If she wasn’t within a thousand miles of Royce’s place in San Luis, and it’s just one big, goddamn coincidence that the two of them are ending up in Denver on the same goddamn night after a little sojourn in El Salvador, well, then we’ve got nothing to worry about. What about her? Have you been able to contact her yet?”

“No. Skeeter has tried her cell a number of times, but Red Dog isn’t answering or returning calls,” Dylan said. “Can you contact White Rook? See what he can get us. Authorization to kill Royce and anyone in his employ would cover Red Dog’s ass.”

There was a moment of silence.

“And yours. You know it’s

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