Mommy Under Cover by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen [Fossen, Delores]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-12-22T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

With Tessa running hard right behind him, Riley cut through a narrow section of oak trees and came to a stop at the edge of a pasture-lined country road. It was a good two miles from the clinic. A safe enough distance.

He hoped.

If not, then at least the weapons they’d taken meant they were armed for a second round.

He saw Tessa press the homing device on her watch. Without Fletcher’s security measures, the device would lead the SIU recovery team to Tessa and him.

It wouldn’t take long, either.

Riley estimated a half hour max. But even if the homing device failed, that mammoth explosion would have certainly garnered SIU’s attention. It’d certainly garnered his. Another minute in that clinic and they would have been dead.

Oh, man.

They were lucky they’d even seen that denotation device in time. If Fletcher had hidden it, really hidden it, then the man might have succeeded in claiming two more victims.

“I’m sorry,” Tessa said, gulping in some hard breaths. She sank to the ground and rested the back of her head against a tree. What she didn’t do was put down her weapon. She kept it ready in her hands. “I didn’t notice the detonation mechanism when I pulled out those tapes.”

“No reason to apologize. I didn’t see it, either.” But he damn sure should have. He’d known from the onset that Fletcher didn’t play fair, and that device was exactly the kind of surprise he should have anticipated the doctor would use.

Riley dropped down onto the ground and swept a vigilant glance around the woods, just in case one of Fletcher’s guards had managed to follow them. Not likely, but he’d obviously been wrong about Fletcher before.

“Are you okay?” he asked her.

Tessa nodded. “You?”

He glanced down at their clothes to make sure neither had been injured in the gunfight. Tessa looked sweaty and tired, and there were smears of dirt on her face, but other than that, she seemed unharmed.

Thank God.

“I’m all in one piece.”

He hesitated, trying to figure out how he should say what he needed to say to her. After mentally testing a few scenarios, he finally decided he couldn’t make it sound palatable. Best to go for the direct approach. “I want to keep looking. I want to keep digging until we have the proof to nail Fletcher.”

With her breath still gusting from the long run, Tessa shook her head and raked her damp hair away from her face. “You heard what the director said. This mission’s been terminated.”

It was the exact response he’d expected from her.

So why did it rile him?

Maybe because he thought things had changed between them. That they’d developed a sort of…fondness for each other. An empathy.

But who the heck was he kidding?

The only thing that had developed between them was a good old-fashioned case of lust.

Wasn’t it?

Man, he hoped that’s all there was to it. Because the alternative would complicate things at a time when he needed no more complications.

“For once, can’t you just go with your instincts?” He tossed the question at her.

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