Secret Agent Seduction by Smith Maureen

Author:Smith, Maureen [Smith, Maureen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, General, Contemporary, Contemporary Suspense/Mystery African-American, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373860821
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-09-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Monday, September 8, 2008

1400 hours

Muwaiti

Presidential Palace

Day 4

When Alexandre Biassou was ten years old, his mother was brutally murdered before his very eyes.

Her crime was adultery.

Her judge and executioner was her own husband.

He shot her three times in the face so that no one attending the funeral would remember the exquisitely beautiful woman she had been in life. Instead, she would be forever mourned as the hideously disfigured creature who had provoked the wrath of a monster.

Christophe Biassou never spent a day in prison for killing his wife. Back then, the Muwaitian authorities did not look favorably upon adulterous women. Christophe was seen as the victim, the poor, trusting fool who’d been betrayed and humiliated by his whore of a wife. It was agreed that depriving him of his freedom, after the grievous injustice he’d already suffered, would be nothing short of a travesty.

And that was when his ten-year-old son learned that a man could commit any crime under the sun—even murder—and get away with it.

So when he grew up to become a politician, he thought nothing of engaging in bribery, extortion and embezzlement schemes—whatever it took to advance his political career and increase his personal wealth.

And when he set his sights on the Muwaitian presidency, and realized that Francois Seligny was the only obstacle standing in his way, Alexandre had no qualms about arranging his rival’s assassination. As far as he was concerned, the ends justified the means.

Following in the footsteps of his father, Alexandre got away with murder.

That was the first time, but it certainly wouldn’t be the last.

When his wife brazenly threatened to expose all his dirty secrets to a prominent British journalist who had contacted her, Alexandre saw to it that she “accidentally” fell overboard and drowned in the ocean while they were out sailing on their private yacht. No one dared question his story that he had been sleeping below decks when his wife, a notorious drunk, lost her footing and plunged to her death.

That was the only way Alexandre knew how to deal with people who posed a threat to him. He removed them from the equation—permanently.

It had been four days since Magliore’s infuriating escape from Muwaiti, and Alexandre was still waiting to receive news of his whereabouts from his American co-conspirator. With each passing hour and day he grew more impatient, and anxious. Time was running out. Magliore must be found and killed soon if Alexandre were to have any chance at retaining his power—and his freedom.

The dire nature of his situation weighed heavily upon him, robbing him of sleep and making him lash out at anyone who had the misfortune of crossing his path, be it household servants or members of his administration.

Now, as Alexandre sat at a table in the palace courtyard playing chess with his ninety-year-old father, he found himself unable to concentrate. When Christophe Biassou captured his king and won the game, Alexandre scowled.

Christophe glared reproachfully at him, his obsidian-colored eyes as shrewd and piercing as they had ever been.

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