Tropical Storm by Skye Warren

Author:Skye Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Dangerous Press
Published: 2023-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Carter

The plan is to arrive for the meeting with my handler twenty minutes early. That was Vivian Constantine’s suggestion. I’ve timed my drive down to the minute.

Which is overkill. I’ve worked on tight mission schedules before, but they’ve always had built-in leeway. Operatives have to have room to improvise. The ability to react quickly to new information and developments in the situation is an essential skill in this line of work.

Are you even in this line of work? I can’t tell which of my siblings’ voices my brain uses to pose the question.

Yes.

No.

“I don’t know. Mother of God.”

I glance in the rearview mirror. The nondescript SUVs carrying the team of six agents are three cars back.

Leo and I had several spirited phone conversations with Vivian Constantine about what, if any, security I should bring. She thinks bringing any agents is a risk. If the traitor spots them, they’ll know I’m trying to force them out of anonymity. Leo thinks sending anything less than fifty agents is unacceptable. He’s not happy that I drew the line at letting him personally oversee the operation. That argument ended with both of us leaning over his desk, ready to punch each other.

“Your wife will literally murder me if you get hurt because you’re stubborn,” I snapped. “Eva would murder me, too. Don’t condemn me to a horrible death.”

“Don’t condemn me to a lifetime of survivor’s guilt, asshole.”

Vivian sighed loudly into the phone and muttered something about Morelli dramatics. “Leo, you’re not going. You’re more recognizable than Carter. Everybody in New York City knows what you look like.”

Leo glared at me, which struck me as unfair. “He’s not going alone. We just got him back.”

There was a beat of stunned silence. I was as shocked as Vivian. Leo doesn’t make a habit of sharing information that could be used against him, and he especially doesn’t share it with Constantines. Haley and Elaine are the exceptions.

The raw determination on his face reminded me of how he looked when Daphne was missing. He called reporters to his house for a press conference. He and Lucian had a fistfight over it, but Leo wouldn’t back down. He left everything on the table trying to find her, from searches at all hours of the night to lighting prayer candles.

I should have known he still went to church then. Sophia’s voice repeats for a government operative, you’re, like, not that observant in my head.

I should have known he’d fight tooth and nail to send agents with me, even if I refused to let him come along.

Those SUVs are we just got him back in the form of security teams. They’re a tangible, visible reminder that I’m not a solo operative anymore.

I’m not a solo person, if I ever was. Theo and June are at Leo’s house, safe behind his army of security agents, which is currently four times its usual size. They’re not physically in this SUV with me, but the way I feel about them is a factor in this mission.

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