Dangerous Promise (The Protector) by Megan Hart

Author:Megan Hart [Hart, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2018-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

The plan had come together surprisingly well, once he’d gotten it into his head that this was the right thing to do. Nina had been right, she was no strategist, but her vivid imagination had been what started it all off, and Ewan had to admit—it was crazy. But it was going to work.

If he survived it, anyway.

“You’re sure you’re comfortable?” Nina asked.

“Absolutely,” he assured her. “So long as they don’t aim for my head.”

She frowned before realizing he was teasing her. Then she ran her hands over his chest, feeling for the lightweight, shockproof vest he’d donned beneath his T-shirt. They’d decided it wouldn’t be suspicious for him to be wearing it, not after all the recent threatening activity.

“It fits you well.” Her palms rested on his chest as she looked up at him.

He couldn’t feel her touch through the layers of material, and yet a flash of heat flooded him. His memory of the kiss had joined his repeated reimaginings of the other things he kept thinking about. His gaze skated over her mouth. If she noticed his look, she ignored it.

They’d talked about various ways this could go down, but in the end had decided it was best if he was attacked as far away from the house as possible. He could have dismissed the household staff to help protect them, but since someone would have to be maintaining the estate while he was gone, and he didn’t want any of them to miss out on their pay while things were in upheaval, he and Nina had figured they would have to tempt the attack somewhere on the grounds.

So, they were going running.

Over the past week, Ewan had carefully seeded all the information he thought necessary to the staff responsible for monitoring the threat levels. He’d scheduled the security staff to have deliberate gaps in the coverage, along with arranging for service calls to the perimeter fencing and security systems that would provide a very narrow but extremely accessible time frame for anyone to gain entrance to the property. It had been a long time since he’d done any actual programming on his own, but he’d made sure to encode any of the correspondence with an individual identifier so that if any of his staff did indeed forward what was meant to be confidential information or share it in any way, he’d be able to figure out who it was.

Now, all they had to do was wait.

“I feel like a worm on a hook,” he said under his breath as he stretched, watching Nina do the same.

As always, she wore her black leggings and long-sleeved shirt, both made of that strong material that wouldn’t stop a bullet but that could blunt a knife. Her harness, crisscrossing over her shoulders and around her belly, along with the thigh straps, had been fully fitted with all of her gear. Compared to her, Ewan was nearly naked, wearing only a pair of running shorts and the singlet with the shockproof vest beneath.

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