Fatal Freeze by Michelle Karl

Author:Michelle Karl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

ELEVEN

This changed everything. Shaun held Lexie tight, sheltering her from the gruesome scene as he fought to control his own emotions. Anger threatened to consume him, the temptation to give in to its destructive power nearly overwhelming. With this promising lead on the Wolf gone, time was running out faster than ever. This man had purposefully shown them his willingness to kill to protect his operation. If Shaun and Lexie’s investigation led them too close, who could say whether the Wolf wouldn’t take the life of his current captive if it meant preventing his entire operation’s exposure?

For the past three years of this mission, CIA intel had tagged the Wolf simply as a clever but dangerous trafficker who moved people as cargo across land and sea. The man’s operation posed a threat to the daughters, cousins and mothers of the United States and elsewhere, and he’d stayed one step ahead of Shaun and the Agency this whole time. Shaun had pegged this as part coincidence and part intelligent strategy.

But with one look at the bloodied man before him, Shaun had to change his entire perspective. The Wolf had revealed himself as a true murderer under pressure—staying one step ahead through fear and violence. If that kind of violence could be applied to the people the Wolf worked with en route, it also had to include the women in his care.

Shaun had seen this kind of thing only once before, when he’d come within a hairsbreadth of catching the man in Spain. Shaun’s team had extracted everyone—captives, accomplices, civilians who hadn’t known any better—except for one person. That one person had been left, just like this, to send Shaun’s team a message...but they’d never been able to definitively prove it as the Wolf’s handiwork. Still, that death had been one death too many. This second one threatened to make Shaun blind and livid with rage at the absolute waste of life.

Shaun glanced over at the scene again. It had been a messy, disrespectful way to end anyone’s life, criminal or not. The only good to come out of this was the knowledge that they had to be close. No one disposed of an ally unless they were desperate, which meant they had their target running scared.

While Shaun wished he could help Lexie un-see the scene before them, the stark truth of the matter was that Shaun’s three-year operation to take this man down—and save hundreds, if not thousands of lives—could be coming to a close.

The awareness of this truth sent a ripple of determined excitement through Shaun, which lasted until the moment he looked down at the woman in his arms. She’d asked him a question and now gazed up at him with wide, red-rimmed eyes, tears slipping down her cheeks even as she set her jaw in resolve. She was struggling to stay strong, but a scene like this would shake anyone, regardless of their experience or constitution. It was only a stomach like iron that kept him upright at a moment like this.

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