Seduced by Sin (Unlikely Hero)

Author:Kris Rafferty [Rafferty, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled; Select Suspense; romantic suspense; romance; suspense; action; Kris Rafferty; contemporary; Bait and Switch; Ugly Duckling; fake engagement
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Select Suspense)
Published: 2017-03-19T18:30:04+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Detectives Dane MacLain and Lucas Sullivan, two of Manchester Police Department’s finest, stood in the middle of the parlor, wearing pastel polo shirts, khaki pants, and loafers. Loafers, for shit’s sake. To add insult to injury, they wore mousy brown wigs and tortoiseshell glasses. Muscular candy-covered almond treats. If Caleb weren’t so pissed that Marnie, his pregnant best friend—MacLain’s wife—was also in the parlor, he would have laughed his ass off at their expense. Where was her sense of self-preservation? Disguises or not, they were in the belly of the beast that tried to kill her and her husband no more than a month ago. Hamilton had to have a dossier on them both. Hell, for all Caleb knew, Francesca had seen it when she was in Levine’s office.

Caleb ordered wedding planners, and the Feds sent him…his friends.

“Thank you so much for agreeing to help us plan our wedding.” Francesca blindly reached for him, clawing the air behind her, searching for his hand. “We’re hoping for something small.” Her voice warbled. Caleb took her flailing hand.

“Small?” He forced a chuckle through gritting teeth. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime event, sweetheart. Let’s break the bank.” He was curious as to the complexity of his candy-colored friends’ cover. It would tell him how much time went into setting up this meeting, and how long they’d known he was here…and that he was an undercover Special Agent with the FBI. The Feds recruiting them was a shock, and he didn’t like it. He assumed they carried a message he’d only believe coming from someone he trusted. And he trusted Marnie, and by extension her family, MacLain and now Sullivan.

Francesca’s eyes widened with alarm. “But—” Her smile tensed, as if she wanted to shut him up. Apparently his suggestion of a big wedding was unwelcome, yet Caleb distinctly remember hearing her refer to hundreds of guests when they spoke in the restaurant, so…he gave up. None of this mattered. How could she not see this? This wedding wasn’t happening, so they could invite a thousand people and it wouldn’t matter. He put his arm around her, hoping to soothe her.

“Let’s see what they’ve got for us,” he said.

“Yes! And we have lots to do.” Marnie grabbed a binder off the coffee table and clutched it to her chest as if it were the most valuable item she possessed. “Lots of decisions to make! Forgive my enthusiasm.” She scrunched up her face and gave Francesca a giggly shake of the head. “But I want your wedding to be the biggest, the best.” She raised a hand in the air, staring off in the distance, as if imagining this nonexistent wedding she was about to detail down to minutiae.

“Please continue,” Caleb said. Marnie hesitated when Caleb held her gaze long enough to let her know he was in the mood to fuck with her.

“I’m seeing flouncy ribbons,” she said, “chiffon bows, thousands of gardenias, white, white, and then more white. Doves released as you first kiss as man and wife.

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