The Chimera Affair 01 - The Chimera Affair by Keira Andrews

Author:Keira Andrews [Andrews, Keira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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The car he’d requested waited on a side street two blocks away, the keys resting on the front driver’s side tire. Kyle tossed themto Sebastian. “Drive.”

“Where to?”

“Out ofRome. Somewhere quiet. Isolated.” Sebastianfroze, clearlyuneasy. “Why?” Tell him to shut up and get in the goddamned

car . Instead he took a step closer, reaching for Sebastian’s hand and squeezing it. “I told you not to worry about that.” Kyle remembered the heat of Sebastian’s body beneath his, his throaty cries as Kyle moved inside him, his fierce kisses…

He dropped Sebastian’s hand and strode around the car. For the last time, focus. “Come on.” As Sebastian navigated traffic, Kyle scanned the document fromArrigo’s safe, whichwas a single page.

“Sucks that it wasn’t in there. The Chimera, I mean,” Sebastian said. He seemed uneasy, likely because Kyle had been hot and cold with him all day. Hell, since they’d met.

“I didn’t expect it to be. Wherever it is now, it’s under very heavy guard. I doubt your father’s letting it out ofhis sight.”Kyle flipped the page over.

“Thenwhydid we risk goingthere?”

“For this.” Kyle tapped the paper. “We need to find out who his buyer is.”

Sebastian merged onto the freeway. “I thought yousaid it was terrorists.”

“It is. Unfortunately there are plenty of groups to choose from. This narrows it down.”

Glancing over, Sebastian’s brow furrowed. “It’s allnumbers.”

“It’s encoded, ofcourse.” He pulled out his phone and tapped away. “I’ll get one of the computer techs started onit.”

“But iftheyhaven’t made the exchange yet…”

“No way would your father hand anything over without a sizable deposit. This is likely the contract. Withbankinginformationwould be nice.”

“You guys can just trace transactions and find out who made them? EvenonSwiss accounts? I’msure my father uses them.”

“Not instantly, but yes. It can take a few hours or a few days. It depends. First they have to crack the code. They’llgive me anestimate ina couple ofhours.”

“What are we goingto do inthe meantime?” “Get us into the countryand you’llfind out.” Sebastianglanced over, wary.

Kyle smirked. “It’s important. Trust me.” “Like I have a choice?”

“We allhave choices.”

Sebastiankept his eyes onthe road.

“Why are you afraid of heights?” The question

slipped out before Kyle could stop it. You shouldn’t care. It’s irrelevant. Sebastian paused before answering. “It’s stupid. When I was a kid—eight or nine—I climbed a tree at my grandparents’ place in Sicily. It was a huge Banyan tree, with all these twisty branches. I’d always been fascinated by it.” He paused again, eyes on the road. “I climbed up really high. I remember feeling like I was climbing to heaven. I didn’t look down until it was too late.”

“Youwere stuck.”

“Yeah.” He smiled ruefully. “I started crying and calling for my mother. My father came instead, absolutely furious. Told me to stop being a little girl and climb down. But it was like I was frozen up on this branch, myfingernails duginto inthe bark.”

Kyle waited for him to continue, anger beginning to simmer inhis gut.

“My brother told me he’d climb up and get me, but my father wouldn’t let him. He yanked Ben back down by his collar.

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