Over The Edge by Suzanne Brockmann

Author:Suzanne Brockmann
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780804119702
Published: 2012-07-22T15:27:15+00:00

Truth was, she didn’t own a thong bikini, but Sam Starrett didn’t need to know that.

“You shouldn’t be wearing that while I’m out here,” he said with a frown, as if her faded red Speedo were something that might’ve been featured on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. He pointed up toward the windows of the buildings that surrounded them on all sides. “We’re not the only ones staying in this hotel. There are locals here, too. If they see us in the pool together—”

“I’ll be sentenced to death,” Alyssa said, slipping into the water. It felt sensuously cool against her hot skin. “That’s another delightful Kazbekistani custom—women being punished by death for being found in a compromising position with a man who’s not their husband. Do you think we should follow that one while we’re here, too, Roger? Out of respect for our host country? And oh, by the way, compromising positions that women should stay away from include rape, did you know that? Because of course it’s a woman’s fault if a man forces his way into her home and attacks her, right?”

Starrett pushed himself up and out of the pool, water sheeting off his body. His swim trunks were Navy issue—the same snugly fitting style that divers had worn since World War II.

Don’t look at his ass. Whatever she did, she could not look at his ass. If she did, he’d know that she still found him intensely attractive.

Along with infuriating, outrageously arrogant and . . .

And she never would’ve guessed he’d be one of those guys who used some kind of voodoo to center himself during a high stress operation. Sitting at the same spot at the same table in the dining room at every meal?

Superstitions and rituals weren’t uncommon in their line of work. Alyssa just never suspected Sam Starrett would have one of his own.

It almost made him seem human.

“It sucks,” he said, following her along the edge of the pool as she did a leisurely breaststroke with her head above the water. “The way they treat women in this country. I’ll be the first to agree with you about that. But we’re not here to lead a revolution. We’re here to get those people out of that airplane—alive.

To do that, we need the cooperation of the K-stani government. We—all of us, even the FBI observers—need to come across as respectful at all times, so that the next time some fuckhead hijacks a 747, they’ll let us come back to save the people on that plane, too.”

If he had left it at that, she might’ve gotten out of the pool and gone back to her room.

But he didn’t.

“What we don’t need is you walking around looking like sex for sale.”

Alyssa stopped swimming. “Excuse me?”

“Excuse me?” he mimicked her as he stood there nearly naked—more naked than she was—and dripping on the concrete. “You know damn well what I’m talking about. At lunch this afternoon I get on your case about being in

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