Compromised Identity by Jodie Bailey

Author:Jodie Bailey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

Clasping her fingers behind her back, Jessica eyed the door to the hospital room. She should be in there. And if Detective Altman wasn’t standing guard with the other police officer, she’d have charged through and made her presence known. She had a right to know why the man in custody thought she was better off dead. In fact, her right to know was greater than Sean’s.

She pushed air out through teeth clenched so tight her jaw ached. He’d actually pulled rank on her. Up until that moment, they’d been in this together, but that single command put her squarely in her place. He was in charge and she was merely along for the ride because his orders were to watch out for her. Nothing more.

It shouldn’t hurt, but it did.

She laced her fingers tighter together. Well, he’d made his feelings clear, so she wouldn’t make the mistake of letting hers get drawn in by him again.

The door to the room eased open, pulling Altman and his officer to attention.

Jessica straightened as Sean stepped out the door and pulled it shut carefully behind him.

Her anger evaporated. Something was wrong. Very wrong. Sean Turner was always in control, but in this moment that control was calculated, riding the edge of a razor. Whatever had happened in that room, it hadn’t gone the way he wanted.

He flicked a glance at her, his jaw set tight, then found Detective Altman and jerked his chin up the hall. “Over here.” Sean stalked away without checking to see if anyone followed, his shoulders an unbreakable line.

Jessica fell into step behind the detective, careful to keep her footfalls nearly silent. She hadn’t been invited to this little sidebar, but there was no way Sean was keeping her out of the loop any longer.

Halfway to the elevators, Sean whipped around and fired a look at Detective Altman that forced the older man to take a step back. “Did you tell Randall I was coming? Mention my name? Tell him anything about me?” Anger colored the words red and hot.

Altman shook his head but, to his credit, didn’t seem fazed by Sean’s fury. “Not a word.” He looked back at the officer by the door. “And I was the only one who knew.”

“He had no way of knowing anything about me?” Sean’s words were hard, demanding answers.

Jessica stepped around Detective Altman. Sean had never once seemed rattled, but this... This anger wasn’t just anger. There was something else behind it, something she’d glimpsed in smaller doses before. “What happened?”

He seemed to see her for the first time, and it did something to his demeanor, something that couldn’t quite be explained but that relaxed his posture the slightest bit.

Jessica braced for him to issue another directive.

Instead, he seemed to be trying to memorize her face before he turned back to the detective, who watched the two of them with interest. “He confessed to coming after Staff Sergeant Dylan. And I want everything you have on him as soon as you get it.

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