Jacob by Allie K Adams

Author:Allie K Adams [Adams, Allie K]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allie K. Adams
Published: 2018-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

14

“Let me make sure I have this straight.” Jacob pinched the skin between his eyes to ward off the headache brought on by that nasty whiskey and fueled by the current situation. The story Lee had just unloaded made about as much sense as something that played out on TV.

But there was one flaw. A fatal flaw. It was too neat. Neat equated to arranged. Arranged equated to organized. Nothing about this seemed all that organized.

And they come full circle to the fatal flaw. Someone was lying. He hoped it wasn’t the man sitting on the couch next to him.

Jacob channeled everything he’d learned about interrogation through the years. He always started with Weber’s lethal glare that had the power to break most. For those who didn’t crack from that, Jacob would then move on to Snyder’s more hands-on tactics. He’d heard a rumor the now assistant director had once partially cut out a man’s tongue when the dumb son of a bitch refused to talk.

It wouldn’t come to that. Even if Lee refused to talk, Jacob wouldn’t let it get physical. He’d just earned the man’s trust. He wouldn’t do anything to jeopardize that. Besides, he’d made him a promise to protect him. Even if that meant against himself.

“You’re telling me you staged a break-in for the same night of the real break-in to get TREX’s help tracking down the prototype those men stole when they attacked you? But then when TREX sent agents to question you about the break-in, you described me as the intruder.”

“I panicked.”

“You panicked. This is so…” He paused to find the right words. When they wouldn’t come, he gave up and shook his head. There were no right words for this.

“Screwed up,” Lee answered when Jacob fell silent. “I know.”

“Why get TREX involved at all?”

“Because the PIs I kept hiring all came up empty. I want my prototype back.”

“It’s just a thing.”

“It was my life’s work.”

“It’s not worth your life,” he snapped. “Why hire a PI to find the prototype? You know it could attract some pretty shady men again, right?”

“This time I’ll be ready for them.”

“What are you saying?” When Lee’s eyes rounded right before he looked away, Jacob got it. “Don’t tell me you want to punch them in the nose, too.”

“When you say it like that, you make it sound like a stupid idea.”

“Because it is!” He worked his jaw to keep his temper in check. Besides, he’d never find them unless he went into the afterlife to look for them. Jacob had taken care of them in that alley. TREX had cleaned up the mess. No way would any PI find a trace of what had happened that night.

“Let’s just take a step back,” Jacob finally said after regaining his composure. “How did you get TREX’s number?”

“I hired a PI to track it down.”

Well, shit. If a PI could track down enough intel on TREX to find a phone number, the covert agency wasn’t as covert as it used to be.

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