Harlequin Intrigue January 2017, Box Set 2 of 2 by Barb Han

Author:Barb Han
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488015984
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

She was playing him. Had to have been this entire time. There was no other explanation for it.

Steve could feel the anger coursing through his body. Not just at Rosalyn, although he was plenty pissed at her, but at himself also.

She’d taken him as an easy mark once, six months ago, and obviously had found he was still just as dense even after being fooled by her before.

Even worse? He still wanted to believe her now. That the crushed look on her face was real, that he’d made a mistake in slipping her into handcuffs.

But damned if he’d let himself fall prey to her for a third time.

And the baby… He couldn’t even think about that right now.

She had to be playing him. Had to be conspiring with the Watcher. There were no tracking devices anywhere on either of them. He had meticulously searched her clothes, his, her notebook and wallet and found nothing.

He’d watched mile after mile in the rearview mirror to make sure they weren’t being followed. There was no way any one vehicle—hell, even two or three taking turns—could’ve followed without his knowing. Steve had been watching. No one had tailed them.

The only suspicious happening since they’d left Pensacola had been Rosalyn’s call to the Ammonses. To a couple she’d previously stated had no phone in their house.

How exactly did you call someone who didn’t have a phone?

You didn’t.

But you could be calling a partner you were working with. Tip him off about where you were going. She might not have been able to give her partner specifics, but she could get him close enough that he could start tailing without Steve’s awareness.

He remembered her head against the telephone cradle at lunch today. The same guilty expression she’d had while standing over at the car while he’d been talking to the local cops.

Like she felt bad for tipping her partner off, then felt bad again that Steve had been hurt.

He should be thankful for her guilty conscience. Without it, he would be dead.

Or maybe—if he was willing to give Rosalyn a slight benefit of the doubt—maybe she hadn’t known exactly what her partner’s plan was. Maybe she hadn’t known the plan was to kill Steve outright.

Maybe she was a thief and a con but not a murderer.

The thought made him feel slightly better, which made him even angrier, which made his arm hurt like a bitch. Steve gritted his teeth. He’d have to take some aspirin when he got to Omega HQ, because he wasn’t going anywhere else but there.

Not giving Rosalyn any chance to escape. He could’ve sworn she was about to run while he was talking to the cops. Maybe she’d known he was onto her.

He was surprised she didn’t try to plead her case while it was just the two of them in the car. She had to know that once other people were involved—people not so blinded by their obvious gullibility for her like Steve—it would be harder for her to fool them.

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