Spy Games: Endgame by Mia Downing

Author:Mia Downing [Downing, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance
Publisher: Wild Rose Press
Published: 2013-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Aaron sat, stunned in the limo, listening to Charlotte forget she was angry with Jake and tell him all about the film, as if she hadn’t dropped a bomb on his little world. That fucker, Chase, was sending her to die. Just like that, for whatever happened on doomsday, or whatever the fuck she called it. This had to be Chase’s fault, somehow, because the man made Satan look like a cuddle bunny. Jake was just the middle man.

He didn’t believe her, though. This wasn’t the dark ages. A woman didn’t need to go kick ass, take names, and give her life for it. She wasn’t Joan of Arc. She was Danger Girl, and she had two men who were supposed to love her and keep her from dying. Assholes. So much for trusting the ones you love.

“What the fuck, Char,” he finally said when they arrived home. She was sitting on the edge of his bed, her hair still pinned up, the sides tumbling down in these crazy, sweet curls he wanted to tug. “You can’t drop a bomb like that on me in public.”

“I warned you to stop. You pressed on.” She assessed him coldly, as if he were a choice of pencil or pen to write with on a grocery list. “And telling the truth did shut you up finally.”

“Do you really have no heart?”

“Yes. They took my heart and trounced it soundly five years ago. So instead of sitting here making plans to keep house with me, thank your lucky stars you got almost a week of sex camp and spy camp out of me. I tried to be nice. I told you no. But you don’t get no. So there’s the truth, lover boy. I can’t give you what I don’t have. I don’t have a future.”

“You don’t have to die. That’s…pessimistic.”

“Pessimistic?” She laughed. “The glass isn’t half full here. It’s empty. I know what I’m up against. This is the mouse taking down the giant, even with Chase’s support. So when Jake told me to live, I finally did. I used every delectable inch of you, and now I’m done.”

He fought the ache brewing. She didn’t mean it. He knew she felt something for him. “What about New York.”

“What about it?” She hesitated just a nanosecond, her hand in mid-air as she removed pins from her curls. Something in her expression changed, flitted, and he realized she had no intention of going to New York. Somehow, she was bolting, but it didn’t seem like her to run. The Charlotte he knew would run at the problem head on, in a different direction.

“You’re not going to New York with me.” His mind flew, trying to head her off at the pass, so to speak. She wasn’t dying on his watch. “You’re going to see if your cover is blown, aren’t you. You’re not going to sit here and wait.”

“Aaron—”

“Good. Let’s go, Char. I’m sick of L.A., and I don’t have anything contractual left on this film.

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