Under Pressure [IAD Agency] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Laurie Roma

Author:Laurie Roma
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Published: 2012-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Bella was tired.

It had been a long day. A long day full of new, insightful experiences. It wasn’t every day that she got an inside view of a clandestine agency, complete with a tour and briefing. Her hair piled high on the top of her head, she lay back. Now, soaking in the hot tub, her muscles relaxed for the first time in what seemed like days.

Last night Jason had surprised her with moving her stuff into the apartment, filling his gray space with her colors. After her comment about his lack of courtship, Jason had painstakingly filled each room with a variety of flowers, hoping to erase the memory of Victor Dane’s macabre gift. The sweet scent of the blooms filled Bella with a quiet joy that Jason would go to such lengths to make her happy.

Now it felt like home, their home.

This morning Jason had taken them all down to the subterranean levels, and they had met with the team of IAD members that he had put together in one of the conference rooms. She knew that there were teams of IAD agents all over the world, but from what she heard Jason’s agents were known as being some of the best.

Meeting the agents of IAD had been interesting to say the least.

As they had walked through the command center where people were working, Bella had been awestruck. These dedicated individuals were working to protect the world, and no one even knew of their efforts. She had been absolutely amazed at the high-tech equipment she saw. It had felt like walking into another universe or like she had walked right into a movie. They told her there were numerous agents out on assignments, and Bella realized she had no clue how big this division of IAD really was. She couldn’t help being a little pissed that Tony and Danny had been there before, but she couldn’t blame them. If they hadn’t know about IAD, she wouldn’t have told them either.

She understood. Secrecy was vital.

The meeting had been fascinating. After a long and arduous fight over the phone, the brothers had convinced their parents to take an extended vacation to Jason’s villa on the Amalfi coast in Italy. Telling them that it would be easier to keep Bella safe if they were hidden away was true. It also put everyone’s minds at ease to know they were out of harm’s way, and knowing Jason, he had agents making sure they stayed that way. Bella was grateful at the generosity Jason had showed her parents, but when she said so he gave her an impatient look that made her wish she had kept her mouth shut.

The team Jason had called in didn’t hesitate to take on this assignment. Jason sat next to Bella and held her small hand firmly in his, lending her his strength. Sal, Tony, and Danny all wore the same stoic expressions. They surrounded her like her own personal army.

She had met Marco Sladerman, or Slade, a big, scary son of a bitch who moved like smoke with the devil’s own good looks.

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