Harlequin Romantic Suspense July 2016 Box Set by Carla Cassidy

Author:Carla Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488022210
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 3

Rosa Ramirez was Miami born and bred and she’d made it her business to clean up her beautiful city.

When the opportunity came around to take down El Escorpion, she didn’t hesitate, but in truth, this operation had been a long time coming.

And she wasn’t blind to the fact that if a certain senator’s daughter hadn’t gotten herself doped up on Bliss and put on life support from her last party, taking down that piece of shit drug dealer wouldn’t have gotten so much attention.

But Rosa never looked a gift horse in the mouth.

The operation was in play and she was going to see it succeed.

But she had a bad feeling in her gut about some of the people involved.

Mainly Agent Kelly and DEA agent Jones.

Now, she hated to think one of her own might be dirty, but El Escorpion had a long reach and a deep pocket.

Times are hard, people slip.

All it takes is once.

One agreement to look the other way for a handful of cash and you were hooked.

Cash was a persuasive bargaining tool.

Rosa had seen too many good agents get caught up in bad shit because the allure of quick cash was too hard to ignore.

She poured herself two fingers of scotch and nursed it while reading the personnel files of both Kelly and Jones.

Both were exceptionally nice to look at—something Rosa hadn’t been graced with—not that it mattered to her.

Rosa was the job and the job was her.

And she was good with that.

But even Rosa had to admit Shaine Kelly had that enigmatic quality of a bad boy wearing a badge, with a devil-may-care attitude that instantly drew women like a flower bathed in pollen drew bees.

Dark, wavy hair, deep blue eyes—shit, this guy was sex on a stick.

Rosa flicked away Kelly’s file and picked up Jones’s.

White-blond hair like a fairy-tale princess, long, lean body and cornflower blue eyes. California prom queen material.

It should be a cosmic law that if graced with physical perfection, they couldn’t also be smart and well accomplished.

Hell, bitter much?

Rosa sighed at her own thoughts, ready to call it a night when something in Jones’s file caught her eye.

Shot on the job.

Now, that’s interesting. Rosa sat a little straighter.

Bullet to the chest; missed the heart by inches.

“You’ve got a guardian angel, kid,” Rosa murmured before sipping her scotch.

Savoring the burn in her throat, she leaned back in her chair to read the details of the operation that’d gotten Jones shot.

First undercover gig with the FBI.

Rough start.

Then she left the FBI to work for the DEA in Los Angeles.

Rosa double-checked which FBI office she worked for—Washington.

Same as Kelly.

Coincidence?

True, the FBI headquarters was huge. It was possible to work in the same office and never know every employee there.

But two highly skilled undercover agents?

What were the odds of that?

Rosa didn’t believe in coincidences.

Her hunch had been that Jones and Kelly were hiding something.

And her hunches were rarely wrong.

Was Hobbs aware that Jones was from Washington?

Likely not.

Hobbs was relatively new—transferred in from the New York office when the previous chief retired.

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