Locked and Loaded by HelenKay Dimon

Author:HelenKay Dimon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue
Published: 2011-08-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

John Tate fiddled with the penholder at the edge of Trevor’s desk. “You didn’t tell me you planned to meet with Luke.”

“I did not realize I was answerable to you.” Trevor walked to the floor-to-ceiling window behind his desk. He didn’t sit down, didn’t offer John a chair.

“Well, you are.”

As far as Trevor was concerned, the era of John dropping by was over. This would be their last six-o’clock meeting before the office buzzed with life.

“I think we need to have a discussion about our arrangement.” And if John failed to back down, Trevor would shove him down.

“It’s simple. You made plans to have your wife murdered, I found out and now I own you.”

The comment used to cut through Trevor, reminding him of a single moment of stunning intellectual lapse. One point in time that haunted him and tainted every move thereafter.

But as John repeated the refrain, the sting lessened. Trevor knew the release of the tape would guarantee his ruin and likely cost him his son. He also realized following the lead of the idiot in front of him could do the same.

“What do you think this information buys you?” Trevor asked.

“Cooperation.”

That had not been the case so far, so Trevor marveled that John could think it would be true now. “And?”

“Whatever else I decide I need.”

“You are playing a dangerous game.”

John lifted a gold pen from Trevor’s collection and put it in his pocket. “And I’m winning.”

“How did we decide that exactly?”

“I found the one piece of information you couldn’t.”

But John conveniently ignored the demons nipping at his heels. Trevor knew John had turned from legitimate government employment to a murder conspiracy for a reason.

Trevor vowed to find it.

“Go ahead. I am listening.”

“The location of Recovery headquarters. I know what’s in the building, the equipment they have, even the security codes to get in.”

It took all Trevor’s energy and willpower not to show a reaction. “You are a government talking head. How did you gain access to those particulars?”

“I have friends.” John turned the photo on the edge of the desk and stared at it.

“I somehow doubt that.” The thought of John interacting with his son, even through a picture, made Trevor homicidal.

The killing rage bubbled up inside him to the point of overflowing. He was ten seconds away from making another irreversible mistake.

“I do wonder that if I can get information on my own and if I have my own men at my disposal, why do I need you?”

Something clicked inside Trevor. The pieces fell together in his mind until he wondered how he’d missed the obvious before. “You have a partner.”

John froze. “What?”

“Someone on the inside of Recovery, though I cannot imagine Luke failing to ferret out a mole.” Trevor ran through the team roster in his head. “Possibly Zach. That spooky quiet could hide something deeper. The others, no.”

But it all made sense. John might act as if he ran the operation but he was just a player. He probably did not possess one sip more power than Russell Ambrose had.

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