Marked By Desire - The Complete Series by Jamie Garrett

Author:Jamie Garrett [Garrett, Jamie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Wild Owl Press
Published: 2016-04-19T07:00:00+00:00

12

Fear, dread, and panic all fought for control within Hannah.

They know, she thought. They had seen her come in, or saw through her flimsy disguise. Oh, how clever she had thought she was, but they really knew all along!

As this train of thought continued, it inevitably led to Luke. They knew she had seen him. Which meant that not only was her cover blown, but now Luke was in danger, too. And he had no idea. She had to warn him, had to—

The knock came again. Steadying her breathing, she tried to remain as calm as possible and remind herself that she didn’t know anything yet. For all she knew, they could just be dropping off a meal or a message or…or just checking up on her.

She didn’t know for sure that her cover was blown yet. So with a deep breath, she reached out for the door knob. As she was twisting it, she realized she was still wearing her ball cap and Luke’s shirt.

“Shit,” she cursed quietly. She quickly threw off her ball cap into the corner of the room and yanked off her t-shirt, then hid behind the door as she opened it.

“Yes?” she asked as innocently as possible.

It was Clyde again outside her door. He was usually the one who got sent up, while Rich, she figured, was sitting outside in his car watching her apartment.

“I’ve got a message for you from Borteli,” he said with that hint of a Southern accent.

Hannah kept the door mostly covering her body so that only her face was visible, seeing as how she was now only wearing a bra. “Um, what is it?” she asked hesitantly. Although this was what she had been theoretically waiting for, she couldn’t help but dread what it said. She was technically still in good with Borteli, but what if he changed his mind? What if her price had been too steep? What if he just wasn’t interested in playing it her way and wanted Carlos dead?

Or worse, what if he knew that she was playing him and really working for the bureau, and now he was playing with her?

All of this sloshed through her mind, mixing together to create terrible images of how this was all about to go horribly wrong.

“He requests your presence at dinner tonight,” he told her. She thought she detected the slightest hint of disdain and couldn’t figure out if it was for her or for Borteli’s message. Again, she realized that she didn’t know what kind of a man Clyde really was.

“Dinner?” Hannah got out, despite her constricted throat. “Dinner where? Here? When?”

Clyde raised a single eyebrow at her. “The Italian Rose,” he told her, and for the first time she realized he was carrying something long and plastic over one arm.

He offered it to her now, but she hesitated. She wasn’t exactly sure how to accept it without letting him know that she was only in her bra and that wasn’t really something she wanted to discuss with Clyde at this point in their relationship.

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