Harlequin Intrigue June 2021--Box Set 1 of 2 by B.J. Daniels

Author:B.J. Daniels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Stan Witherspoon’s fears continued to grow. The longer that blonde woman stayed in town, the more worried he became. A soldier. One who had been Brigid’s friend.

On the one hand, he was glad of this town’s busy grapevine. On the other, he worried that it might expose him in some way.

There was no way to shut the gossip down. None. He just had to continue trying to remain unremarkable.

Although unremarkable was his general description. He blended better than a potted plant.

Sometimes he liked his inherent invisibility. Sometimes he hated it. He sure hadn’t been invisible those two times Brigid Mannerly had spied him at his avocation. He preferred that term, avocation, to the real one: arms merchant.

Hell, he’d been moving weapons for years, a cog in the chain between manufacturers and the battlefield. What he’d begun to do for money really wasn’t that different. Or so he told himself.

He knew it could get him in some serious trouble, especially with the man who had been running the operation and maybe others.

A lot could happen between leaving manufacturing plants and arriving at destinations. Even shipments of socks turned up missing, and the security on weapons didn’t seem to be much more stringent. At least not when you knew what to do.

He even had heard of weapons and ammo disappearing from stateside military bases. Amazing the power of a soldier working in such a place. A little here, a little there, and a small cover-up and no one would notice.

For a while, at any rate. Didn’t anyone do inventory?

A stupid question. When the guy diverting the stuff was the same one who was doing the inventory, the cover-up was easy.

As well he knew. That’s why he’d been selected for this operation.

Which had brought him here. The only place that was more back of the beyond than Conard City was the place he had come from. Now he’d committed a murder in both places and was thinking about another one or two.

Had anyone asked him five years ago if he would do any of this, he’d have sworn he never would.

Until the money was offered. Until the fear took over.

He was a changed man.

He hated to think about it.

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