Falling Under: a standalone Walker Security novel by Lisa Renee Jones

Author:Lisa Renee Jones [Jones, Lisa Renee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Julie Patra Publishing
Published: 2018-01-23T08:00:00+00:00

I’ve gone too far with Jewel. I know this, but I can’t turn back. I want her. I’m fucking obsessed with this woman when that’s not my way. I don’t obsess. I don’t crave. I don’t have to have anything, and yet I do feel every bit of that with her. I want her that fucking badly, and I can’t explain it. I could keep her naked in bed for a solid week, and I know that wouldn’t be enough to be enough.

But right now, she has a real stalker, and I need to end that person. And so, I let her dress, no doubt hammering away at her wall as she rebuilds it, while second guessing me and herself for wanting to trust me. We reach for our shoulder holsters and once we settle them back into place, we’re both back on the job.

“Tell me about the umbrella,” I order softly.

“Tell me about your scar,” she says, and I almost smile at her brilliant dodge and deflect.

I could do quid pro quo and promise her an answer for an answer, but I’ve torn down her trust by sideswiping her today with her boss. I need, and want, it back. “It was a Cuban mission,” I say. “I pissed off the wrong guy. Does it bother you?”

She softens instantly. “No. God, no. Of course, it doesn’t bother me. It’s a part of you.”

“You seemed quite obsessed with it,” I comment.

“You were naked. I was obsessed with all of you.”

Obsessed. There is that word that was in my head, now on her lips.

“Were you a prisoner?” she asks, before I can comment.

“Yes,” I say. “I was.”

“How long?”

“Seventy-two hours, until my team showed up.”

“Did you kill the person who did that to you?”

“Yes,” I say again. “I did.”

“Was Jesse Marks on the rescue team?”

And there it is. Proof of how good she is at her job. She hit me from the side. “That mission was top secret, and I can’t tell you that.”

“That’s a yes,” she assumes.

“Sorry, detective. I’ve been questioned and cornered while being tortured. Your questions and assumptions don’t faze me, nor does my lack of an answer constitute an answer at all.”

I reach behind me and pull the book out that she was holding when I followed her up here. “Tell me about the umbrella and this book.”

She closes the space between me and her and grabs the book. I shackle her free hand and pull her to me. “I can’t protect you if you don’t tell me what is going on. We have to do this together.”

“Your version of together and mine don’t work. And spilling details of an investigation to an army of people leads to mistakes, miscalculation, and problems.”

“This is about Royce going to your boss.”

“You went to Royce,” she says, “or he would not have gone to my boss.”

“I don’t deny that. But would you feel better about me leaving you exposed?”

“Don’t be an asshole and go around me.”

“I will do what I have to, to protect you.

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