Friction (Red Hot Private Eye, Novella, Vol. 2) by Shawn Melanie

Author:Shawn, Melanie [Shawn, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Red Hot Reads Publishing
Published: 2013-10-20T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Mateo walked into the conference room to find Cristal and Dominic already seated. He pulled out the chair closest to the door and took a seat. The chair felt solid against his still shaking legs.

Cristal raised an eyebrow. “Where’s Raiza?”

“Here,” Raiza’s voice came from behind him.

He turned his head and saw that her hair was pulled into a sleek ponytail. She wore minimal make-up, but it was flawless. She now wore a black tank top with a pin-striped blazer with the sleeves rolled up and skin tight jeans. What the...they had gotten their phone calls at exactly the same moment. How the hell had she gotten ready and made it here so close to the same time that he had?

Other than her swollen lips and flush in her cheeks, there were no clues that anything had just gone on between them. Her face was an unreadable mask…even to him.

He hoped that he was doing as good of a job at hiding what had just happened between them at her home. His heart was still racing. His mind was swimming, or more accurately drowning in the explosiveness that they had just shared.

They hadn’t been having just sex. It was more than that. It was indescribable. He tried to push down the feelings that were flooding through him. They were for a different time.

Dominic and Cristal were both staring at him and Raiza. Right. They needed a breakdown. Mateo needed to quickly snap out of his lust-mush brain.

Mateo began debriefing Dominic and Cristal on the assignment. Raiza stepped in to fill in the areas that only she was privy to. He could tell from her body language that Cristal thought Razia had made the right call by staying in the room to finish planting the equipment. Dominic did not seem as happy about it.

Dominic turned to Raiza, his tone deadly-calm, “Do not ever put yourself in that position again. If your point person tells you to get out. You. Get. Out.”

Cristal’s jaw tensed and her eyes narrowed as she slowly turned her head to Dominic, “She did her job. She did it well. And now you're lecturing her.”

“She didn’t follow the chain of command,” he snapped back at her.

“Excuse me, but Raiza was lead on this. It was her contact. Her ass on the line. She followed protocol,” Cristal’s voice remained steady but Mateo had a feeling that she was as far from calm as you could get.

“Mateo was her point person. Protocol would dictate that she follow his directives,” Dominic stated firmly.

Mateo felt the same way that Dominic did, and in fact had gone over to Raiza's house to say those exact things...but he never got to that part. He couldn’t help but shoot a look at Raiza to see how she was reacting to Dominic and Cristal’s discussion, but she stared straight ahead, giving nothing away.

Raiza’s phone buzzed and she stood, “I need to take this.”

She was out of the room before anyone had a chance to say anything. They all sat for a moment silently.

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