The Paris Assignment by Addison Fox

Author:Addison Fox
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373278329
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-31T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Campbell dropped the box and its contents once more as he reached for Abby. Even with the layers of bulletproof vest, T-shirt and sweatshirt, her body was frail beneath his large hands.

“Abby. Can you hear me?”

She blinked a few times and another soft groan echoed from her lips before her head lolled back against her shoulder.

“Come on, Abby. Come back to me.” He added a bit of gentle pressure to his sharp words before reaching behind her to give her head some support.

After one more rapid set of blinks, she opened her eyes and Campbell was rewarded with a deep stare from those chocolate depths. He saw the moment the reality of what she’d just discovered in the package registered as she leaped toward him, wrapping her arms around his waist. “Oh, Campbell.”

Her forward movement was enough to push him off balance and he caught her as he fell backward from his crouched position. “Shh. It’s okay.”

He crooned the words as he kept a light pressure on her back, rubbing circles through the thick padding.

“Why is this happening?”

“I don’t know.” The truth of those words ate at him.

Who was doing this to her? And why couldn’t he get a handle on the source of the problem?

He was good at his job, damn it. He knew technology. Yet this guy—and the fingerprint on the technology, coupled with this latest assault had him increasingly thinking her assailant was male—was practically invisible.

His gaze landed once more on the box. A very, very real gambit.

Tangible.

“Abby.” He pulled on her arms so she was looking at him. “Where did the box come from?”

A light sheen of tears filled her eyes before spilling over onto her cheeks. “It was in my bag. Part of yesterday’s mail.”

“The mail Stef gave you before you left?”

“Yes.” She rubbed at her eyes, realization dawning with the truth of his words. “Oh, no. No, Campbell. She didn’t do this.”

“We can’t be sure.”

“She didn’t.”

“Then we need to rule her out. Even if she’s not doing it intentionally, she’s likely a conduit of some sort.”

“But she can’t be.”

“Come on, baby. Think about it.” The endearment was out before he could snatch it back and as it fell off his lips, he didn’t want to pull it back.

It felt good.

Comfortable.

“She’s got complete access to you. She’s not all that confident on her own. Someone could have used her to get to you.”

“That’s not fair.” He saw the light of battle spark in her gaze and much preferred it to the shell-shocked victim he walked in on in a puddle on the kitchen floor. “So she’s a little mousy. That doesn’t mean she’s sold me out.”

“She’s got a new boyfriend.”

“So?”

“Have you met him?”

“No, and I wouldn’t expect to.”

“Not once, in all the time they’ve been dating. He never came to pick her up?”

She shook her head as she sat back, reaching for her long fall of hair to pull it up in a ponytail. “That’s not the type of relationship we have.”

“She’s your assistant. She knows when you go to doctor’s appointments, presumably.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.