Police Business by Miller Julie

Author:Miller, Julie [Miller, Julie]
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2005-06-23T05:00:00+00:00

“YOUR TWENTY-FOUR HOURS are up. Your plan failed.”

The man with the long fingers disentangled himself from the naked woman in his bed and climbed out from beneath the covers to take the call in relative privacy. He stood at the hotel window, pulled aside the curtain and looked out the Liberty Memorial, spotlighted against the starless night atop the next hill. He lifted his gaze to the eternal flame that burned atop the columnar structure and wondered how much longer he’d have to endure the peculiarities of his hired assassin.

“I told you not to call me.”

“I don’t care about your little tryst. She’s not the woman I’m worried about.”

He glanced back over his shoulder at the sleepy woman, pushing her hair out of her eyes as she sat up and let the covers slide down to her waist. His body stirred at the intentional display of bare breasts. She was willing to do anything for him. Or, more accurately, for the money and power he could share with her.

She’d come as soon as he called, to be with him for a few hours before daylight and the next phase of his well-orchestrated plan fell into place. He’d needed the sex, needed to get the frustration of a very trying day out of his system.

He didn’t need to be dealing with Galvan’s muck-up. He turned back to the Memorial. “Ramon Goya is sending a shipment along with the coffee we’re bringing in from Tenebrosa tomorrow. I need to be able to tell him we can distribute all of the product without any interference. How are you coming with the last two names on the list?”

“You do not understand, compadre. There is no one else on the list until I finish this job. I have my reputation to protect. The Winthrop bitch is cozier with the cops than ever now. Trying to spook her did no good.”

“You took it too far.”

“I didn’t take it far enough. I should have snapped her neck and been done with it. But you wanted to play games. She isn’t changing her story, and now that cop is attached to her at the hip.”

“I’m not worried about Rodriguez. He’s just a man. He has a weakness we can exploit if we have to. I’m not worried about Claire’s testimony, either.”

“It wasn’t your face she picked out of a police report.”

“Darling? Are you coming back to bed?” The woman’s voice jarred against his ears. “I’ll have to leave soon.”

“And you know damn well, compadre, that if anything happens to me, yours will be the first name on my lips.”

The man with the long fingers headed back to the bed to assuage more of his frustrations.

He was losing his taste for such decisions. Who’d have thought getting rid of a glorified secretary could cause so much trouble? Killing Valerie had been a matter of silencing a team member who’d unexpectedly developed a conscience. But for an extra quarter of a million dollars, she’d find a way to keep her mouth shut.

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