Edge Of Fear (Arrow's Edge MC Book 4) by Freya Barker

Author:Freya Barker [Barker, Freya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: FREYA BARKER
Published: 2021-05-02T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

Sophia

IT’S BEEN STRESSFUL, the past three days.

Going into work, pretending nothing is going on, even though I feel like I’m sitting on a powder keg that could go off at any minute.

On Tuesday after the lunch rush, Mandy walked into my office, closed the door, and promptly burst into tears, rambling how sorry she was. I ensured her I understood, that if someone threatened my family, I’d do anything to keep them safe. It took me ten minutes to calm her down.

Then Wednesday afternoon our new ‘employee’ started. Krystal, the agent’s name, is supposed to relieve me of my dining room duties for the dinner run, mostly greeting and seating. I still do lunch, which isn’t nearly as busy, but this leaves me free to focus more of my time on the actual management of the restaurant. At least that’s the story we’re going with and no one questioned it.

Yesterday Luna called to give us an update. She said they’d managed to intercept another dealer the night before, after Mandy handed off the drugs. They were able to do it quietly, without flashing lights or public scrutiny. That was the plan, for the Bureau to slowly whittle away at the network while they tried to trace the money back to the supplier.

That was the more complicated part of the investigation. The moment they make a move against any of the players on that side of the trafficking—the driver, or Clover Produce—chances are whoever is behind this setup would find out and disappear before they can bring him down. They put surveillance on Bernie and his sister, as well as on the warehouse in Farmington. Luna explained the key now is to gather as much intel as they can, see how all the pieces fit together, and then coordinate arrests, so all of the players are taken in at the same time.

On top of all of that swirling through my head, Tse has been weird this week. I can’t quite put my finger on it but he’s pensive. Still attentive to me with touches and smiles, but just now I woke up again with the outline of his erection pressing against my ass, like I have for days, only to have him roll away the second I moved.

It’s been almost a week since Tse touched me in any sexual way. I’m starting to wonder if he’d still be here if he didn’t feel some kind of compulsion to keep me safe. I know he feels a sense of responsibility I suspect may stem from the time I got shot. Or maybe it’s because I might be pregnant with his child. Maybe that’s what is keeping him around.

“I can hear you thinking,” he mumbles sleepily.

I can feel him rolling over on his side and I turn to face him.

“Just woolgathering.”

He runs the pad of his index finger from my forehead, down the slope of my nose, and stops at my bottom lip, pulling it down a little. His eyes followed its path and are now fixated on my mouth.

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