Honeymoon with a Stranger by Frances Housden

Author:Frances Housden
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-06-28T05:00:00+00:00

The door opened silently, slowly—Mac wasn’t pressing his luck. There was a lamp burning in the room, but the overhead light was off and the room was empty.

He went inside. Like the attic bathroom, its curved walls were part of a corner tower.

Two monitors and recording equipment sat on shelves next to an open door leading to a bedroom.

Covered in wallpaper, the door would be practically invisible from the other room when shut, which was the first thing Mac did.

Zukah had left in a hurry, and the reason why soon became obvious. One of the screens was blank—Mac’s work. The other showed the Algerian and Yves arguing in the kitchen.

Even without sound, Mac had a fair suspicion what the quarrel was about. That explained how Zukah had known to come running when the fight started.

An oak desk took up most of the space. On it, the lamp sat next to a laptop. He switched it on and, while it loaded, examined the rest of the equipment.

By now, Zukah would be laying down the law, informing Yves, who was shaking his head, what his seduction technique had cost them. Being Arabic, maybe he was warning Yves that any more such attempts would cost him his hand, not just the use of it for a couple of hours.

Soon they would be arming up, determined not to be caught napping again.

Their complacency had come in handy. Saved Mac from showing his hand too soon. But what else was a guy to do when a moron threatened his woman’s life?

His woman?

Mac shook his head to loosen the mental aberration.

He’d repeated the words so often to pound it into Zukah and his cohorts’ heads, they had become lodged in his own synapses.

Sure, Roxie was attractive, but she was still an unknown entity, something he ought to correct before he went back upstairs by calling Thierry.

The day might come when he took a woman for keeps, but for his parents’ sake, she’d have to come from the right kind of family. An American blue blood like himself and all the generations of McBrides that had gone before him since they’d exchanged Scotland and its English king for freedom in the colonies.

He punched the button that would get him Thierry while he pulled open a filing cabinet that matched the desk. The top drawer slid open easily, which usually meant there was nothing anyone wanted to hide.

Mac flicked through the files as Thierry came on the line.

The date on the first file was ancient. So old, in fact, that he doubted the person’s name on it was still alive.

“What did you get me on Roxie?”

“She is an intern with Charles Fortier. The big surprise is, no one seems concerned that she hasn’t turned up for work. They think she’s on holiday.”

Thierry hardly stopped for breath. “I’m waiting to hear from our English bureau about MI6, though I get the feeling you don’t have to worry. She doesn’t sound like she’ll cause much trouble.”

With a laugh, Mac walked over to the laptop.

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