Undercover With the Enemy by Sharron McClellan

Author:Sharron McClellan [McClellan, Sharron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fake relationship, Sharron McClellan, Select, enemies to lovers, fake engagement, opposites attract, Undercover, Entangled, right under your nose, Suspense
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The two men left, the weight of their shifting bodies making the boat rock hard enough that Kane had to brace himself against the wall of the bathroom. He signaled for Holly to wait. They weren’t safe. Not yet.

She nodded, more compliant than usual, and he wasn’t sure if he liked the change. The upside was that her silence meant they weren’t arguing, and right now, he needed the reprieve.

He needed to think. To process and deal with what had happened, but it was hard to ignore the anger bubbling inside. He glanced at his partner, her hands pressed against the walls for balance. It wasn’t her beauty that drew him in. She was fascinating and always kept him guessing, and something told him that what they had was special.

But he’d had been wrong before, which made her decision to bail all the more painful. He wasn’t sure what pissed him off more—his misjudgment of Holly, that Mira Burke withheld some obviously critical information about the necklace, or himself for giving in to lust.

“I think we can go,” Holly whispered. “We should get to Bravo.”

Her words brought back some of the clarity that had fled, and the heat in his chest dropped to bearable levels. Answers could wait. He knew his priority—the mission.

He wasn’t going to forget it again.

He cracked the door open. The cabin and cockpit were empty. Climbing the short ladder, he watched the men disappear off the dock and into the gardens as they headed toward the house.

“They’re gone,” he said. “We need to do the same.” It would be dark soon—time for the auction—and they’d lost valuable time on the boat. At least they now knew about Rachel and could neutralize her so Bravo didn’t run into her in the master suite.

And then there was Enzo. Was he going to be an issue? It was doubtful the mobster would take a chance on confronting Kane, Holly, or their “assistant.” But Enzo had left them out of his story to Lucien, so that meant he was afraid of what would happen if his father knew he’d been caught.

Fear made men do stupid things—like killing the people they were scared of. Killing was something HRS agents didn’t do unless they had no other choice.

The scar on his leg itched at the memory of almost losing his life, but it wasn’t so much the near-death experience that bothered him, it was the fact he had lost a fellow agent.

As far as he was concerned, death shouldn’t be categorized under “trivial things,” so he’d left the volatile world of retrieving kidnap victims and turned to running item retrieval ops for HRS instead. Trinkets, files, and photos didn’t die. With the exception of working with Holly, it wasn’t as exciting, but his conscience was clear, and at the end of the day, he went home. He liked it that way.

“Any idea why they want the necklace?” Holly said as he helped her off the boat and onto the dock, her hand warm in his.

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