Rules in Deceit by Nichole Severn

Author:Nichole Severn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-08-12T18:46:30+00:00

Chapter Nine

“He shouldn’t have been able to find me.” New name, birth certificate, driver’s license, Social Security number, credit cards, established social media accounts. She’d done everything aside from getting plastic surgery. Even with full access to her program, the shooter shouldn’t have been able to track her down. At least, not without help. Oversight ran off federal databases, and everything there said she was Elizabeth Dawson. Plain and simple. She’d made sure before terminating her contract with the NSA.

The IV in the top of her hand tugged at her attention, cold fluid working through her veins. Braxton had gotten her to the hospital two days ago, but according to him, the nightmare was far from over. The shooter had jumped off that cliff he’d meant to use as her final resting place, but his body hadn’t been recovered. He was still out there. Hunting her. “I changed my name. I relocated.”

“Why didn’t you tell me?” Sullivan Bishop had taken the seat beside her bed. Protection detail, he’d said. Her boss hadn’t taken any of his own cases since taking down one of the most trained stalkers in Anchorage history—his brother. So why was he really here? The former SEAL centered that sea-blue gaze on her, and everything in her heated. Not from attraction—Sullivan had the best damn army prosecutor in the country waiting for him up the road at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson—but from embarrassment. “I told you when I hired you, we’d have your back. No matter what, but that comes with conditions, Liz. We’re a team. I can’t expect my team to function if my operatives are keeping secrets from me.”

“I came to Anchorage to start over. I’d left that part of my life behind. I didn’t see any reason to fill you in because none of this was supposed to happen.” But hadn’t she’d always known this day would come? Always looking over her shoulder for those green eyes she hadn’t been able to forget. Didn’t matter where she’d gone. Braxton would’ve found her sooner or later. “How is Braxton?”

“The nurses threatened to strap him down if he didn’t let them stitch his arm. Knowing what little I do about him, he’ll barge through that door any moment to get to you.” Sullivan’s five o’clock shadow shifted as the small muscles along his jaw flexed. He crossed his arms, massive muscles fighting to free themselves from the signature black T-shirt he always seemed to wear. “He said the shooter jumped off that cliff edge, but neither Vincent nor the crime scene unit have been able to recover a body or any evidence the bastard got up and walked away. Do you trust him?”

Wasn’t that the million-dollar question? Elizabeth pressed the edge of the bedsheet under her fingernail. She had no doubt Braxton would do what it took to protect her. Even if that meant neutralizing the threat after she’d passed out from the cramping in her abdomen. Snapping her gaze to her boss, she pressed her shoulder blades into the pillows behind her.

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