Renegade (Elite Ops 5) by Lora Leigh

Author:Lora Leigh [Leigh, Lora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-05-23T20:27:22+00:00

Chapter 12

People saw her as a pushover, and Mikayla knew it.

As she stepped from the shower that night, dried, and dressed in a long cotton

nightgown and robe, she admitted she might well be too damned nice.

Even Nik treated her with kid gloves. There was a difference between needing to

be protected from a killer and needing to be protected from life.

She had no desire to be protected from life. She wanted to live life, experience it.

She wanted to laugh and she wanted to love, and if that meant getting her heart broken, then she wanted that, too.

She'd had plans, she admitted. Plans to be a virgin on her wedding night, plans to wear her white dress, but those plans had changed. She had a very bad feeling there was every chance Nik wouldn't be sticking around for a white wedding.

Not because he was a heartbreaker. Not because he had any desire to hurt her, any

desire to spoil the plans she had made. Because the darkness inside him might not allow him to love with the same need, the same intensity, as Mikayla could allow herself to love with.

Moving through the house, she was aware of Nik in the living room sitting on the

edge of the couch as he cleaned his gun at the coffee table.

He had done that the night before when they left the bed for a snack. While

Mikayla made sandwiches, he had cleaned his gun. He took exceptional care of his

weapon.

"I ordered pizza," he called out as she moved for the fridge. "It arrived a few minutes ago."

She had to admit, she hadn't been looking forward to cooking at midnight.

"It's a good thing I'm not on a diet," she muttered as she poured herself a glass of sweet tea and moved into the living room.

Sure enough, a pizza box sat on the end table next to the recliner, along with

several paper plates.

Mikayla made short work of a slice, sipped at her tea, and watched Nik finish

cleaning the gun.

He'd showered as well.

His hair was nearly dry, fanning around his face as he bent his head to his task

and carefully put the weapon back together.

"What are you doing tomorrow?" she asked as he laid the weapon aside.

"I'm heading to the job site to talk to the new foreman and a few of Eddie

Foreman's friends. There has to be a reason someone wanted him dead; I just have to figure out what that reason is."

"What have you learned so far?" She knew what he had learned, the same thing she had. Not a damned thing.

"Just a few rumors." He sat back on the couch and stared at her thoughtfully.

"Foreman wasn't well liked by a lot of people. I called your friend. He gave me the same 119

information he gave you, but I haven't been able to verify it, or find Steve Gainard."

"Steve's out of town," Mikayla stated before breathing in deeply. "For a man so unliked, no one wants to discuss Eddie."

"We'll see." Nik shrugged. "I have a few more leads to follow.

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