Only With You by Kathryn Shay

Author:Kathryn Shay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: tragedy, contemporary romance, undercover, special agent, dangerous jobs, love after loss, female agent, fake death, family of heroes

Chapter 10

On Monday, around noon, Max sat at his desk reading the latest email from Cal Adams. The FBI had taken the information Max and his team had uncovered and run with it, alerting the Social Security sites that might be targeted for a bombing and questioning Lucy Alcott. As a courtesy, they notified threat assessment where they were headed, but for now, at least, he and other Secret Service members involved were finished.

He stared blankly at the screen, thinking about the weekend. Connor had stayed in Maryland with Nick, so Max and Whitney spent Saturday and Sunday alone. Their physical contact had been the same as that morning only more frequent. They laughed that they felt like teens pretending their actions were not sex. But intercourse seemed inappropriate now to her, and he understood that.

They didn’t discuss what was between them, but he noticed some things about her that might bode well: she didn’t drink any alcohol at Nick’s nor at home but told Max to go ahead and indulge. When she took a nap, her hand cradled her stomach. And once, she referred to the fetus as a child. Maybe this was wishful thinking. They hadn’t discussed anything more. And she had a lot of time yet to decide.

Please don’t let it take her too long, Max thought. The anxiety was just about killing him.

To get away from his fretting, he picked up the phone and called his father. “Hey, Dad,” he said when John Blackwell answered.

“Hey, son. I was thinking about you. Wondering how things were going.” He’d told his father that Whitney had given him a second chance, but that’s all. No sense getting him excited about a baby they might not have.

“How about lunch today? Are you free?”

“Other than my date with Tom Clancy, I am.” His dad was a voracious reader. Since he’d retired, teaching only one course as an adjunct, he’d been catching up on all the thrillers that he’d missed over the years when he’d been bound to the classics and other reading his students had been assigned. “Where and when?”

When he gave his dad the information, John asked, “Is Whitney coming?”

“No, actually. She took the day off from work.”

Which had surprised Max. She wasn’t sick except at Nick’s that one time. The rest of the weekend had been uneventful. Maybe she was more tired than he realized. She was in bed when he left for work, half-awake. They’d shared a luscious kiss before he took off.

“Then it’ll be us two.”

“See you in half an hour, Dad.”

“You sound better.”

“I am. I’ll tell you everything when I see you.”

When he disconnected, he headed out to see Drew Michener. Jim Manning, the FBI director, was leaving Drew’s office. Max greeted him, then gave a courtesy knock on the ajar door. “Got a minute?” he asked.

“Yeah, more than. Director Manning just left. Looks like we’re done with our part of the case.”

“I came over to make sure, at least for today. If we are, I’m going to meet my dad for lunch.

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