The Socialite and the SEAL by Jenna Bennett

Author:Jenna Bennett [Bennett, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magpie Ink

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Max told JB about Suzanne when the SEALs got back to the house after the reconnaissance mission. “She saw somebody. The description doesn’t match James Cooper, but it could match Mohammed el Saud. Trouble is, he was too far away for her to get a good look, and she only saw him for a second.”

JB nodded.

“She said he was dressed all in black, and had dark hair. Cooper’s gone gray, so it couldn’t be him.”

“Unless he was wearing something to cover his hair,” JB said, “and she was too far away to notice.”

Max nodded. “And she might have been. She said he was a football field up the road.”

From that distance, JB wasn’t sure he’d be able to tell the difference between a hat and a head of hair either.

“She said he moved quickly,” Max added. “That could mean he’s a younger man.”

Could. But not necessarily. “Have you ever seen Commander Baker move? He’s still got it.”

“Baker’s only in his forties,” Max said. “Cooper’s twenty years older. Unless Suzanne saw one of Mick’s guys, my money’s on el Saud.”

JB’s money, too. Not that he had a lot of it to spend on bets. “I don’t suppose we’re any closer to figuring out how el Saud got here, if he’s here? Or where he’s staying?”

Max shook his head. “The guys with the photos came up empty. If either el Saud or Cooper are nearby, they haven’t bought gas or supplies or rented a room in any of the places the guys checked.”

Of course not. That would be too easy.

Then again, if JB was stalking a woman he planned to murder, he’d make sure he wasn’t seen in the neighborhood where she lived, either.

Which meant they’d either gotten really lucky with Suzanne’s testimony, or she hadn’t seen what she thought she saw. “Did you show the neighbor the pictures?”

Max nodded. “She didn’t recognize either of them. Told me again that the guy had dark hair, so it was probably el Saud. But that’s not enough to go by. Several of Mick’s guys have dark hair. So do several of ours—including you and Andy.”

“We’re not skulking around the estate in head to toe black,” JB pointed out.

And wondered who the hell would be that stupid. el Saud’s commando training would have taught him that to be invisible, he’d have to blend with his environment. And James Cooper was a hunter. He was used to the concept of camouflage. Neither of them would have dressed in all black on a sunny morning on the Main Line.

“No,” Max agreed, “but Mick’s guys are.”

They were. Their shirts were white, but they wore black windbreakers over them.

If el Saud knew that, maybe head to toe black was just what he’d wear. Everyone around the Leighton estate probably knew that Mick liked to hire guys from the military. Mohammed el Saud would look like another soldier turned security. Which was exactly what he was.

Security for Omar Khan el Balushi. Not Walter Leighton.

That was if el Saud had been who Suzanne had seen, of course.

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