Summer Stalker by Nicole Helm

Author:Nicole Helm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-02-03T15:31:50+00:00

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“WE’VE GOT TROUBLE,” Elsie said with no preamble when Reece strode through the door. “Major trouble.”

“How?”

“I started digging into Charles Jackson, right? Well, everyone and their brother has a flag on the guy’s record. Got around the FBI and a few other groups I didn’t take the time to identify yet, no problem, but one group had their flag hidden.”

Reece didn’t know much about computers, but he knew that meant... “So someone knows we’re looking for Charles Jackson.”

“They don’t know who or where we are. I have protections against that. But they know someone is looking, and it doesn’t take a leap of reason to realize that if someone just happened to start looking into him today...”

“They know Lianna told us his name.”

“Or they’re at least going to make that assumption,” Elsie confirmed.

Reece swore. Instead of getting her out of trouble, they’d put her smack down into the middle of it. They’d made her a target, not just a questionable liability.

He swore again.

“I take full responsibility,” Elsie said, her voice quavering just a hair. “It’s completely my fault. I didn’t see the flag. I’ve never seen one like that. This is my fail.”

“Or they’re that good. Sometimes the wrong people get the best of us, Els,” Reece said with more calm and graciousness than he felt. Elsie was young. She wasn’t an operative. Tech geniuses couldn’t be expected to handle everything. “Now we just have to make sure we take the next step first and best.”

“I’m not handing any of this off to my other tech people. I’m going to take extra precautions before I look into the names of the groups she gave us. But it’ll take longer.”

“Then it’ll take longer. We don’t want to rush into anything.”

Shay strode into the room. “I agree. No targets on anyone’s head. Unfortunately, you’re going to have to break it to Mrs. Kade so she understands how important it is for her and her son to stay here for the time being.”

“I don’t think she’s under the illusion she’d be safer at the inn,” Reece returned stiffly. Better stiff than furious. Better closed off than let go of all the anger building inside of him.

“You never know,” Shay replied with a shrug that grated on Reece’s frayed temper.

“We should send an operative to each group,” he said through gritted teeth. “Including the FBI. Who knows how they’re involved?”

Shay shook her head and Reece had to curl his fingers into fists to keep from demanding to know why.

“I just spoke to my contact, the one who brought this little assignment to our doorstep. I told him we’d found some information, but that I needed more on his end to share it. Eventually, he gave me a little more to go on.”

“FBI?” Elsie asked.

“No. A group called T2K9.”

Elsie frowned at her computer screen. “That was one of the groups Lianna told us about that was on the FBI file. So they’re bad?”

“Not exactly. After some circular arguments, and calling in a favor from Granger, I was given enough information to believe they actually are one of the good guys.

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