Navy SEAL Bodyguard by Tawny Weber

Author:Tawny Weber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-03-12T15:03:57+00:00

Chapter 8

Spence had been on a lot of missions over the course of his career, but this one just might be shaping up to be the roughest. He’d felt closer to danger in the last two weeks since he’d enjoyed pasta with Mia than he’d ever felt in combat.

Standing in a state-of-the-art kitchen in a palatial house overlooking the San Francisco Bay, he watched Mia pacify a hysterical florist, direct the bartender’s setup and oversee the gardeners as they arranged topiaries among the tables strategically arranged over the stone patio. All the while, musicians calmly rehearsed for the next morning’s sunrise breakfast event.

Like everything she did, Mia juggled them all with skill and grace. He had no problems admitting that. He just wished she’d do it all without looking so damned good.

And what was he—a Navy SEAL decorated with honors—doing to further his own career?

Instead of a being shot at by angry terrorists from a bunker in the desert’s blasting heat, he was placating a grumpy caterer in a Northern California mansion while the wind played through the palm trees.

Given a choice, Spence would rather be shot at.

As if hearing his plea, his cell phone rang. He glanced at the readout and, much to the caterer’s obvious relief, excused himself.

“Yo, Smidge. What’ve you got?”

“Yo, Improv. I dug deep and scooped up some deets.”

Spence felt his first tingle in two weeks that wasn’t sexually inspired.

“What kind of deets?”

“Deets like search trail. I can’t pinpoint who’s using the server, but someone in the Alcosta empire has been doing a lot of digging over the last two years on a certain Senator Luis Penz. Keeping tabs on the guy’s location, tracking his voting records, his charitable preferences. Digging into his background, his family, who he hangs out with. That sort of thing.”

Interesting.

Spence had done a little digging of his own on the senator. Never married, Mia’s mother’s brother was a former captain in the Army, and as strong a proponent for human rights as he was antidrug. From everything Spence had gleaned on Penz, the senator was so clean, he glowed. And he’d sponsored a number of bills targeting areas that would put a pretty tight squeeze on operations like Alcosta’s.

Would Alcosta try to bribe Mia’s uncle into changing his stand on those bills?

Tied in with the other info Spence had found—that Alcosta’s reason for rushing this fund-raiser was as thin as smoke, that Mia was the only event planner he’d considered for it, and the real-estate mogul was facing some major financial challenges—bribery made a lot of sense.

“Send me the intel.”

“Encrypted?”

“Of course.”

Juggling the new information, he slipped the phone into his pocket. He could run it by Cade, see if his commander had inside information. More to the point, he could lay out the fact that a bribery scheme meant Alcosta was only using Mia as a conduit to meet with her uncle. A dirty plan, but not particularly dangerous.

Which would mean that this torturous babysitting duty was unnecessary.

Spence watched Mia wend

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