Risky Love by Stacey Kennedy

Author:Stacey Kennedy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Stacey Kennedy
Published: 2019-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

The tension in the room hadn’t faded in the passing hour. Ryder’s team returned to their headquarters in New York City. Higgins needed stitches to his head wound from being slammed into the storage unit and the burn on the side of his neck needed treatment, but he would recover, and that was a much-welcomed relief. Ryder had been on edge, pacing around the command center until Alex told him to get lost for a while before she called his wife. She needed to think and work, and having all that testosterone hovering around her became an annoying itch she couldn’t scratch. Ryder eventually listened and left for his office in the main area of the headquarters, which housed normal offices and meeting rooms and a receptionist out front.

Alex wasn’t even sure how long had gone by since she’d first sat her butt in her chair, working on more secured files on Lewis’s hard drive, but she knew she wasn’t getting out of it until she had something. Anything that was a step forward. She cleared two files that had financial documents when she noticed Ryder next to her again. “I told you to go away,” she said without looking up.

“Do you want to explain to me what happened in Seattle?”

For a brief moment, her mind stuttered. “Seattle?” But then she looked into Ryder’s amused eyes, and her memory rebounded. “Oh.”

His mouth twitched. “You also have a visitor.”

“Damn. Heath Lennox?”

“Ah,” Ryder commented with a grin at whatever crossed her expression. “So, you do know him?”

Oh, yeah, she knew the billionaire out of Seattle. She’d once named him as a possible suspect before they closed in on Lewis.

“Who do you know?” Rowan asked, entering the command center carrying a tray full of coffees and a bag full of sugary pastries that suddenly made Alex realize how empty her stomach felt.

“Heath Lennox,” Ryder said.

Rowan froze unnaturally still. “What about Lennox?”

“He’s here to talk with Alex,” Ryder said, obviously knowing something happened when it came to Lennox.

Rowan pinched his lips shut, clearly fighting his smile.

That jerk. Alex narrowed her eyes and pointed at him. “I told you this would happen. This is your mess. You go clean it up.”

Ryder glanced between them. “How about one of you fill me in on what Lennox wants from you?”

“Oh, he wants me to be his submissive,” Alex said breezily.

Ryder’s eyebrows shot up. Yeah, it was pretty laughable. She didn’t have a submissive bone in her body. “Go on,” Ryder said.

Rowan set down the coffee and the bag of pastries behind Alex’s desk, his shoulders shaking with silent laughter, as Alex explained, “I originally thought Lennox was a suspect. One of two actually. The other guy was a pilot, who flew Rowan and I to Seattle to attend a masquerade ball that Lennox was putting on. Well, there, I pretended to be a submissive to lure Lennox in.”

“You. Pretended. To. Be. A. Submissive?” Ryder asked, his eyes wide with surprise.

“She was very believable,” Rowan replied with a grin.

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