Lethal Affairs by Kim Baldwin;Xenia Alexiou

Author:Kim Baldwin;Xenia Alexiou
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Lesbian, bold, strokes, because this time she faces the ultimate dilemma: a choice between loyalty and love. First in the romantic suspense series: Elite Operatives., Contemporary, fiction, romance, Romantic Suspense Fiction, General, Suspense, Lesbians, ingenuity and courage, Elite operative Domino is no stranger to peril and impossible situations. Trained all her life to be just as comfortable fighting terrorists as mixing with the gala crowd, e-books, she is proficient at playing any role necessary to accomplish her objective and believes the cause sanctifies the means. But her latest assignment to investigate journalist Hayley Ward will test more than her skills, lesbian, BSB, ebooks
ISBN: 9781602820227
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2008-07-09T14:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Domino’s cell phone vibrated against her hip while they were still a few miles from Hayley’s apartment. “Sorry, I have a voicemail.” She fl ipped it open, listened, then returned it to her pocket. She’d have to fi nd a way to call Pierce back without Hayley overhearing.

“I have to make a quick stop at this gas station, hope you don’t mind.” She turned toward Hayley as she unbuckled her seat belt. “Can I get you anything?”

Hayley slowly shook her head and gave her a half smile that revealed only a hint of her dimples. “Just your rapid return.” Her attention was focused primarily on Domino, and she had the same sort of smoldering sensuality about her Domino had found so compelling back at the theater. But Hayley seemed to be aware of danger nearby too. Every now and then, she would follow some bit of movement in her environment. She looked like a rabbit, ready to bolt.

Domino found a quiet corner inside the station and called Pierce.

He briefed her on Manny Vasquez’s death, and her already heightened sense of danger surrounding Hayley shot into overdrive. Had her mysterious benefactor turned lethal? That didn’t make sense. If he wanted to bring down the Organization, why silence someone who might help Hayley do so? She wondered again what the ex-cop had told her the night he died and what “promising” stuff he had that Hayley was so anxious to see.

His death explained Hayley’s unexpectedly early arrival on the scene while she had been searching Vasquez’s apartment. Hayley had somehow known he was dead and had decided to get the note and erase her message from his machine, to make sure police didn’t connect her to him. Had she found what Vasquez planned to show her? She had remained inside a good fi ve minutes, which would have given her enough time.

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Domino had to fi nd out what Hayley knew and what evidence she had, one way or another, because apparently the only other person who might have been able to tell her anything was dead. But the idea of sleeping with Hayley merely to get information increasingly bothered her, and the prospect of silencing her once they got what they needed bothered her even more.

As each day passed, she became more convinced that Hayley was only a pawn, swept up in someone’s effort to bring down the EOO.

She returned to the car and slipped into the driver’s seat. Hayley smiled at her so enticingly, and her skirt length left so little to the imagination, Domino had to grip the steering wheel hard to keep her hands from exploring the warm softness so invitingly within reach.

And Hayley was clearly not going to make it easy on her. She apparently didn’t believe restraint had much merit, because as soon as Domino started the car, Hayley touched her softly muscled thigh and began to stroke it lightly but purposefully.

The slow, old-fashioned approach wasn’t going to work much longer.

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