His Devil's Desire by Linzi Basset

Author:Linzi Basset [Basset, Linzi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“The Government? Come now, Baxter. They are the easiest to control. All you have to do is either offer a bribe or blackmail them.”

Damien Whittaker kept his face neutral, but he was too smug and it irritated Adam. His lips twisted into a half smirk when he mentioned bribe; the hint directed at Adam.

Adam couldn’t dispute it. Money could offer comforts and as far as he was concerned, it was the only thing that guaranteed happiness. The days when he thought otherwise had been long forgotten.

“All of them? Why do we have so much trouble with Kevin Douglas then?”

Damien shrugged negligently. “There are always exceptions. You know that better than me or need I remind you of your departed partner, Joe Sutton, whose untimely demise you are still supposedly investigating after five years of his death?”

Adam struggled to keep the belligerence from his expression. He was tired of being reminded of his corrupted journey. It happened. So fucking what? He’d left the straight and narrow road he’d travelled his entire life, the day he’d walked in on his fiancé fucking the only man he’d trusted with his life; the director of the NCS at the time. When the syndicate made him the offer a week later, he didn’t hesitate. He wanted the power they offered to rid the world of cheaters.

Damien Whittaker had been only too eager to accommodate him. Adam didn’t care that it gave them power over him. All that mattered was to wipe off Dafoe’s grin from his face; that condescending smirk every time he looked at Adam, rubbing his fiancé’s infidelity deeper.

Damien began by providing the means to build a trail of corruption that destroyed Dafoe’s good name and he lost everything―his house, his job. It hadn’t been enough for Adam. He wanted him gone, so that his deceitful fiancé could suffer. And she did. Suddenly, she was left on the street with no lover, no future husband . . . and no money.

He smiled to himself. It had been easy to use Ace, then. She’d been so trusting and easy to manipulate in those early years. She never questioned him and Wilfred Dafoe had been an easy kill, especially with the proof that he’d planted that he was supposedly involved with the mob to assassinate the president.

Damien had become too demanding of late. He made Adam feel inconsequential. It chiseled away at his ego. He’d just been promoted. He held a revered and prized position in the CIA. It meant something; to the Government, to his team and those who coveted what he had.

The Sixth Order has become a burden. He was set to live a life of luxury without having to work but he didn’t want that. He thrived on the power his new position gave him.

It was time to exert his newfound power with Damien and his partners. His eyes narrowed in thought. Instead of breaking off the connection with them, he would use them. That’s the way to get ahead even faster.

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