Solid Gold (Unseen Enemy Book 8) by Marysol James

Author:Marysol James [James, Marysol]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: xxxxxx
Published: 2016-05-30T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

It had finally happened. Someone had figured out a way to render Dallas Foreman literally speechless.

Dallas stared at Griff, his cup of coffee forgotten mid-way to his mouth, his blue eyes dark with confusion and anger. Dallas’ state was merely a temporary one, Griff knew, and sure enough, after about five seconds, the man snapped right on back to normal, which meant ‘scary-as-all-fuck’.

“You what?” Dallas snarled. “You fucking what?”

“Slept with Claire Worthington last night.”

Even though this was the second time that Griff had dropped the bomb on him, Dallas went silent again. He’d known John Griffin for four years now, ever since Griff had come back from Afghanistan and had decided to transfer his not-inconsiderable skills to personal security. In that whole time, Griff hadn’t so much as toed a line, let alone crossed one. In fact, if Dallas thought about it, every single one of his staff members had crossed at least one line – including Dallas himself – but not Griff. Not until now.

And man, this was one hell of a line to cross. Seemed that when the man decided to go for it, he went for broke. Just took a running start, and flew on over the line like it wasn’t even there.

“So.” Griff carefully set a piece of paper down on the conference room table, slid it across to Dallas. “I accept that I won’t receive any vacation pay, or bonus, or separation package. I also accept that I’m to leave immediately.”

Dallas’ eyes snapped down to the paper. “This is your letter of resignation?”

“Yes.”

Yet again, Dallas found himself blinking stupidly at the man that he considered a brother, a man that – until thirty seconds ago – he’d thought that he’d known almost as well as he knew himself. Except apparently not. Apparently, Griff had been falling for the op target for a while, and hard, and he’d never said a damn word to anyone until it was all over and in flames.

What the actual hell? Is Griff insane or is he possessed? Do I need to stage an intervention or an exorcism?

“OK, let’s take a deep breath here,” Dallas said quietly. “Calm down a bit.”

“I am calm,” Griff said.

“I was talking to me,” Dallas told him.

“Oh.”

“Ohhh-kaaaay.” Dallas exhaled. “Now… I absolutely accept your resignation. Not because I want to, but because I have to. You’ve broken protocol in I-don’t-know-how-many ways, and my hands are tied here, man.”

“I know.”

“Now the big question here is this: why the fuck did you decide to go ahead and sleep with the woman? Why’d you blow up the op, and your career, and your good name here, all for some damn chick?”

For the first time since entering the conference room two minutes earlier, Griff actually showed emotion. “Don’t you insult her, Dallas.”

“What?” Dallas was stunned. “Seriously?”

“Yeah. Seriously. I’d never refer to Liv as ‘some damn chick’.”

“Olivia’s my wife,” Dallas pointed out. “While Claire’s an accessory to fraud and embezzling and God-only-knows what else.”

“She’s not.”

That made Dallas screech to a halt.

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