His Christmas Assignment by Childs Lisa

Author:Childs, Lisa [Childs, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The door swung back and forth in a broken jamb. Someone hadn’t just picked his lock this time. They’d broken down his door. His heart hammered with fear. Had Candace been inside when it had happened?

Rus had promised he would call Garek if the agents following Candace saw any threat. This was damn sure a threat. He drew his weapon from his holster. But this threat was meant for him.

Gun drawn, he stepped inside his apartment. Viktor Chekov sat in the middle of his couch, his feet propped up on the coffee table. At either end of the couch stood a man with a gun—the barrels pointed at Garek.

He could shoot one of them but not both. He couldn’t win this gunfight. So he holstered his weapon. “If I’d known you were coming to visit, I would have left the door unlocked and some appetizers out.”

Why the hell was Viktor visiting? Garek had made certain no one had followed him down to the River City morgue. If anyone caught him meeting with Special Agent Rus, he was a dead man for sure. That was why so few people could know about his assignment for Rus—because the more people who knew, the more likely it was Chekov might find out.

“We haven’t been here long,” Viktor said.

“Why are you here?” he asked. “Milek is with Tori right now.” Garek had been with Rus for a while—pouring through Donald Doornbos’s past to find a connection between him and Chekov. Garek had even stayed after Rus had left for dinner at Penny Payne’s. He could have gone to dinner, too. He’d been invited.

But Candace had probably been invited, too. And he hadn’t been ready to see her yet. Of course every time he closed his eyes he saw her, lying naked in his bed—her silky skin all flushed with passion, her lips wet and swollen from his kisses...

“Maybe I should have had your boss at Payne Protection assign your brother to protect my daughter,” Viktor said. “It seems like he is the more focused one of the two of you. But then he has no distractions like you have.”

Garek tensed. “Distractions?”

A snide grin twisted Viktor’s face. “The woman bodyguard, the former cop.”

Fear clutched Garek’s heart.

Viktor knew about Candace. For how long?

“Maybe I should have her assigned for Tori’s protection,” Viktor said. “I find I may be down a bodyguard.”

The dead guy had worked for him then.

“Somebody quit?” Garek asked.

Viktor cocked his head. “Quit? More likely he will be fired.”

Oh, he was talking about him—which brought back Rus’s warning. Viktor Chekov didn’t give out pink slips; he gave out toe tags.

“I don’t have any distractions,” Garek claimed.

Chekov stood up and reached for Garek. He patted his face with just enough force it stung. “Don’t lie to me.”

“I wouldn’t,” Garek assured him.

“Then maybe you’re lying to yourself,” Chekov said. “I saw you chase after that woman.”

Had he sent someone after her before Garek had followed her out?

“I didn’t follow her right out,” Garek protested. But someone else had.

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