Full Force_Mills & Boon Heroes by Elle James

Author:Elle James [James, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2019-08-07T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“You must be Sachi,” Emily said and moved forward.

Mustang shot out his arm to keep Emily from stepping past him.

“It’s okay,” Emily said. “Sachi is Russian Ambassador Nikolai Kozlov’s daughter.” When she tried to lower his arm, it remained firm.

“You can’t trust anyone,” Mustang said. “Not even another woman.”

“Miss Kozlov won’t hurt me,” Emily said and turned to Sachi. “Will you?”

Sachi stared at Emily wide-eyed. “No, no. Of course not.”

“Still, I’d rather make certain she isn’t carrying a weapon.”

Sachi held out her arms and spread her feet apart. “Please hurry. If my bodyguards find me, I will not have another chance to speak to Miss Chastain.”

Mustang ran his hands lightly over her arms, along her sides, down to her shoes and then checked inside her jacket. When he was done, he stepped back and allowed Emily to move forward. “She’s clean.”

Emily closed the distance between her and Sachi.

Sachi moved away from the door into a corner of the classroom while Emily flipped one of the light switches near the entrance, plunging that corner into darkness. Then she followed Sachi, with Mustang close behind. “What is it you wanted to discuss?”

Sachi glanced over Emily’s shoulder toward the door before she spoke. “My father has made it impossible for me to get out of the embassy alone. He treats me like a child, when I am twenty-six years old.”

* * *

SACHI COLLAPSED AGAINST Emily, sobbing. Emily wrapped her arms around Sachi and looked over her head into Mustang’s eyes.

“Is your love the journalist Tyler Blunt?” Emily asked.

“Yes,” Sachi said. “He is. And my father is furious. He thinks Tyler is a risk to his position as the ambassador.”

“Why does he think that?” Emily asked.

“He thinks Tyler is only seeing me so he can get bad information about what the Russians are doing in the United States.”

“And do you think Tyler is using you?” Emily asked.

“No, of course not.” Sachi shook her head. “Tyler loves me.”

Emily didn’t bother telling the young Russian girl that journalists sometimes could be quite crooked and start relationships with people just to use them for a story. What good would it do when Emily knew nothing of Tyler’s true intentions?

Sachi frowned and stared into Emily’s eyes. “You don’t believe me, do you?”

“I didn’t say that,” Emily said. “Question is, what do you want me to do about it?”

“My father said he hired a private investigator to follow Tyler,” Sachi said. “Who was the private investigator?”

“I’m not at liberty to reveal anything about my conversation with your father,” Emily said.

Sachi grabbed her hands and squeezed. “Please, you need to tell me. I think the private investigator might have seen something. Might know something about what Tyler was working on. Maybe he knows something about why Tyler disappeared.”

Emily shook her head. “I signed a nondisclosure agreement with your father. If you want to know who the private investigator is, why don’t you ask your father?”

“He won’t tell me,” Sachi said.

Again Emily shook her head. “I’m sorry, I just can’t tell you.

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