Tuff Enough by Samantha Cole

Author:Samantha Cole [Cole, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Suspenseful Seduction Publishing

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

“What’s next?” Chase asked, glancing at a piece of paper in front of him with the meeting’s agenda on it.

Sitting on the other side of the BHS owner’s desk, Ian Sawyer consulted his own list of topics he’d wanted to cover with his business associate. “I need you to head to D.C. with me next month to finalize everything with the NSA. Once everyone signs on the dotted line, we can patch you into our interface. Cookie will have to monitor all requests and the resulting intel—the brass wouldn’t budge on that. You and I can figure out what it all works out to in trade later.”

Trident Security had hit the jackpot last year when they’d been able to lure one of the top computer geeks at the National Security Agency into the private sector. With TS’s high-clearance levels and black-ops government contracts, one of the perks of the deal had been Nathan Cook could maintain his access to the NSA’s mainframe computers. Since Chase had similar contracts with Uncle Sam, he’d approached Sawyer and the bigwigs in Washington about gaining access to information that could be vital for missions.

After months of negotiations and everyone at BHS going under the proverbial microscope, they’d finally gotten the thumbs up. Instead of money constantly going back and forth between BHS and TS, as the latter company grew over the past few years, the owners usually kept track of who owed what, and it was usually paid back in personnel, equipment, intel, or anything else they could come up with.

“Okay—I’ll have Shannon get Colleen on the phone and let them set up the meetings and travel details.” He made a few notes on the paper to have his secretary contact Ian’s. “Anything else?”

Ian tossed his leather-covered day planner onto the empty chair next to him. “Last thing I’ve got is my dipshits want to challenge your dipshits to a softball game sometime in the next month or two. It was Egghead’s idea, and from there, it spread like a bad breakout of VD. I did nix his suggestion for what the losers would have to do, though, because I wasn’t taking any chances—don’t ask.”

Chase chuckled. “I won’t, but—”

A knock at his door, followed by it swinging open, cut off what he’d been about to say. Irv strode in, being the only person in the office who wouldn’t have waited for permission to enter. The six-foot-five retired Green Beret was frowning, but there was no urgency in his demeanor. He stopped behind the empty guest chair and rested his hands on the back of it. “Sorry for the interruption, but Tuff just banged out again. Told me to keep him off the schedule until further notice. When I tried to talk to him, he told me to fuck off—sounded a tad drunk, so I’ll let it slide until he’s sober enough to feel the pain I plan to inflict upon his ass.”

“Fuck,” Chase murmured, running a hand down his face.

Raising an eyebrow, Ian asked, “Hasn’t been back to work since?”

He let out a heavy sigh.

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