Kim Baldwin & Xenia Alexiou - Elite Operatives 5 - Demons Are Forever by Kim Baldwin;Xenia Alexiou

Author:Kim Baldwin;Xenia Alexiou
Language: es
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-03-11T01:16:18+00:00

ChaPter twenty-one

New York

When Heather got home she practically tore off the emerald cocktail dress and heels and jumped straight into the shower, to rid herself of Dario. Soon, she was in a worn-out pair of jeans and T-shirt but still didn’t feel free of him. His words kept running through her head. How dare he try to buy her? Who did he think he was?

But what power he had to find out so much: her name, her job, even about Adam. He knew everything about her. The revelation made her skin crawl and frightened her.

Not only was she not going to join him on his business trip, she would cut him off completely, and if that meant giving up the agency, then so be it. Maybe the universe was telling her it was time to stop. If she had to give up her dreams and take another three jobs to support her brother’s needs, she’d do it. Having to sell her body was one thing, but having someone own her was a whole different matter. Moving on to another Dario wasn’t an option, either. Who knew what the next guy would be capable of?

She hadn’t realized the real danger of this work until tonight.

Sure, she’d heard gruesome stories from other women, but they were all street girls like Gigi. No one she knew from her elite agency had ever been in danger. Goes to show you there’s never enough protection from obsessive freaks.

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Heather paced the room, trying to think of something to get her mind off Dario. She resorted to turning on the TV again, but it didn’t help any more than it had the night before. Maybe talking to her brother would distract her. She glanced at the clock. Nearly ten, too late to call him. Normally, she would have phoned Gigi, but that wasn’t an option. As far as she knew, Gigi was still missing. Though she checked the paper every day for some news about Francine Shelhorn, she hadn’t seen any mention of her.

She had no one else to call, certainly not this late. Brett sprang to mind. When would she be back in town? Would she look her up again or were they just words?

She’d never met a woman quite like her. Although she always appeared calm and measured, Brett seemed rather ominous and mysterious. Heather couldn’t pinpoint why, but the way she’d scared off those guys in Chinatown was unusual, to say the least.

Not exactly how your average woman approaches danger. Brett not only intervened without a second thought, she did it like it was the most natural thing in the world, without even breaking a sweat. She was either very capable or very stupid. Either way, Heather realized she’d never felt safer than when in her company.

Her daydreams of Brett finally enabled her to relax, and she was just drifting off on the couch when the doorbell rang, startling her back to full awareness. The clock on the DVD player read ten fifteen.

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