Escape from Danger by Linsey Lanier

Author:Linsey Lanier [Lanier, Linsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense, Thriller
ISBN: 9781941191651
Publisher: Felicity Books
Published: 2020-06-17T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Five

Back in the living room they said goodbye to Alejandro.

Sauce smeared on the front of his shirt, he stared at them with his big brown eyes. “Are you going to catch the bad men and find my friend, Diego?”

“We’ll do all we can,” Simon told him.

“Can I come with you?”

Torres cleared his throat. “No, son. This work is not for little boys.”

Alejandro scowled. “I am not so little. I am eight.”

“You need to catch up on the schoolwork you missed today. Besides, it’s past your bedtime. I need you to behave yourself right now. It’s very important.”

“All right.” Sadly Alejandro waved goodnight to his new friends and with his shoulders slumped, he let his aunt lead him back to the bedroom.

Feeling sorry for the boy, but glad he was safe, Janelle left the flat with Simon and drove back to the hotel in silence.

As soon as they were inside the room, Simon turned to her. “Why did you leave Alejandro alone in the car at the park?”

She blinked at him, stunned. She’d almost forgotten about that. “I told you. I gave you fifteen minutes. You didn’t come back in time.”

With an angry huff, he marched to the closet and picked up one of his duffel bags. “You can’t always time an operation like that.”

“I watched you when you were in front of the gate. I saw Torres’s cigarette under the trees. Then he disappeared and you went after him.”

Simon put the duffel bag on a stand and opened it. “And I found him and got the information we needed from him. Now we have an ally.”

He was making her livid. “What if it hadn’t worked out that way, Simon? What if the contact had showed up? What if he’d dragged you off somewhere and killed you?”

His face darkened with irritation. “I don’t need to be babysat. I do have some experience, you know.”

His remark felt like a hornet sting. “What are you saying, Simon? That I don’t have experience? That you think I’m a liability?”

“You’re a responsibility. My responsibility.”

“In other words, I’m the one who needs to be babysat.”

“I didn’t say that.”

Infuriated with him, she marched to the window, pulled off her snood and tossed it on the table. “I’m just as much of a professional as you are, and I can take care of myself.”

“I know that, and you’re good at what you do. But I’ve made up my mind.”

“About what?”

He turned his back and began packing a smaller bag with tools. “I can’t let you go with me tonight. It’s too risky.”

Talk about a double whammy. She couldn’t have felt more stunned if he had slapped her across the face. “You’ve got a lot of nerve, Simon Sloan. You take risks all the time. You shouldn’t even be involved in this case. You’re supposed to be trying to find out who murdered Cooley and prove yourself innocent.”

Frustrated to the brink of his endurance, Simon spun around and stared into Janelle’s fiery green eyes. The look in them stirred him to his soul.

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