Heatseeker by Lucy Monroe

Author:Lucy Monroe [Monroe, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Suspense, Romance, contemporary
ISBN: 9780758242037
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2013-01-29T00:00:00+00:00

Kadin finished his call with Roman, acutely aware of the fact that Rachel had not tried to move out of his arms the entire time he had been talking to his superior.

She was just devious enough to have stayed close in order to be able to hear Roman’s side of their conversation, but Kadin preferred to believe she was willing to accept his comfort. If only for the present.

“We’re cleared to stay in Morocco for the time being,” he said as he set the satphone down.

“How?” Rachel demanded, her tone wary, the tension in her frame increasing instead of lessening as he would have expected.

He looked down at her, trying to read the expression in her blue gaze. “Our mission is to extract you from Africa. You refuse to be extracted. Roman has approved additional time to help you see reason.”

“You don’t have to respect my wishes,” Rachel said, as if she couldn’t keep herself from pointing that fact out.

“I do.” Whatever his team or Roman or even Rachel believed, there was no way in hell’s half acre that Kadin was going to drug Rachel and dump her unwilling ass onto a plane.

“Thank you.”

He knew the words had cost her.

It was there in the pinched lines of her pretty face.

He brushed his thumb over her brow, smoothing the worry lines, needing her to relax a little. “You’re not alone.”

“For now.” But she didn’t fight when he pulled her just that much closer.

“Now is all that matters.”

In his line of business, agents didn’t know if they’d be alive the next day, much less the next year. Oh, the Atrati were the best at what they did, but there was no way to ignore the fact that it was a damn dangerous job.

They all learned to live in the moment. It was one of the reasons he’d been able to stay away from this woman for a decade. Living in the now left the past and the future off-limits.

“I’ve learned that lesson, too. It’s the only way to get through the day sometimes.” Her words reflected his thoughts so closely, it was uncanny.

The last thing he’d wanted for Rachel was for her to become too comfortable in his world. That was one of the reasons he’d left hers.

But for some reason the sweet young woman he’d left behind had rejected that gift and gone looking for the harsher side of life herself.

Damn it all to hell.

All he could say now was, “Then we’re in agreement.”

“We watch Chuma, Massri, and Jamila.”

“You think like a government agent, even when you’re on unpaid medical leave,” he teased her.

“What do you mean?”

“It’s not your case any longer, but you want to keep your eyes on the players anyway.”

Telltale pink seeped into Rachel’s cheeks, but she said, “Keeping Jamila safe requires knowing what those men are up to.”

“Maybe. We could just throw her ass onto a plane, your director’s orders be damned.”

“Chuma and Massri are going down soon. She can’t disappear right before the authorities move in.

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