Pushing the Limit by Emmy Curtis

Author:Emmy Curtis
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Erotica, Fiction, Contemporary Women, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781455530779
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Just at that second, four policemen ran through the lobby with their guns drawn. Matt pulled Harry back. “Don’t get in their way. By the way they were holding their weapons I’d have to assume that they’re not highly trained.”

Harry shivered and looked at the table she and Malcolm had been sitting at just minutes before. “These were all his research notes on the foundation we’re working for…” Matt needed to know what Malcolm had discovered. “Listen, Malcolm had suspicions that we were sent here to find something specific, and given what we know…”

“Shit.” Matt looked at all the paperwork. “Gather all this up, stow it in your bag, and just pretend it’s yours. Don’t let it out of your sight. Don’t tell anyone you have it.”

He was right. They needed to keep this. Maybe Malcolm had dug up the answers without really understanding what he had. She grabbed all the papers, shuffled them on the table so she could fit them all in the foundation folder, and slipped them back into the leather satchel that Malcolm had brought to dinner with him.

At that moment a low whistle came from the kitchen door. Both of them looked up. It was David.

“You should go with him. Get out of here, and come back when it’s all clear,” she said. No way did she want to get Matt tied up in hours, maybe days of red tape.

Matt beckoned David over. “You’re a lifesaver. A fucking late lifesaver, but I’ll take it. Someone has died in the hotel, probably murdered. A colleague of Harry’s.”

“I heard. We have someone monitoring the police frequencies, and they advised me because I had an asset here. Luckily I was already on my way.” He grinned and snapped the gum he was chewing.

“I’m not your asset,” Matt grumbled.

“I thought you’d prefer that to ‘protectee,’ brother.”

“Fair point.” Matt dug in his jeans pocket and pulled out his phone and gave it to her. Call us when the police have left. But don’t leave it too late; I don’t want you left alone. You stay downstairs, in sight of the police and the receptionist, until we come back, okay?”

She took the phone. “Sure.” As soon as she said the word in an embarrassingly small voice both guys took a step toward her. Then they both glared at each other. “Get out of here, both of you. I can take care of myself.”

“Press the pound key. It’ll speed dial this”—David waved his identical phone—“and we’ll come right back.”

“Go,” she said, lifting Malcolm’s satchel onto her shoulder. She watched them pass through the door into the restaurant kitchen. Matt turned and cast one more glance in her direction before disappearing from sight.

She looked down at Malcolm’s satchel and realized that she ought to stuff her small purse in there, too, lest it look weird that she had a shoulder bag and a purse just to come down to dinner. She sat in the not very comfortable chairs in the lobby and waited.

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