Protecting Cassie_Special Forces_Operation Alpha by Desiree Holt

Author:Desiree Holt [Holt, Desiree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2019-05-13T16:00:00+00:00

Patrick Shore clicked off the call on his cell phone with a deliberate press of his finger. What he really wanted to do was throw the damn fucking thing against the wall. How was it possible that with every available resource at his disposal he couldn’t find one fucking woman. He’d even checked state registries to see if she’d transferred her license. He was pretty damn sure she’d have to work. She was far from financially independent. But nothing had shown up on any state registry so after a couple of weeks he gave up on that. It seemed she had just disappeared off the face of the earth, but how?

Cassie Malone wasn’t a dummy. He knew that. If she was, he would have been bored with her after the first date. No, she was smart and funny, good looking, and not at all like the women most of the men in his business hung out with. Either business. Not too many of them were paired with physical therapists. It gave him a certain cachet to have a woman in the medical profession on his arm.

He had been very, very careful to keep her away from the shadowy side of his life. The one where he made the real money. Oh, his chain of restaurants did very well indeed, but it was his other business that brought him millions. And now there might be a bump in the road because some idiot had tried skimming and made him lose his temper.

He could see that scene in the restaurant after it closed as if it was happening right now. His two partners in both businesses had come to him just before Pro Forma closed. Cassie had met him there for a late dinner, and he was hoping the night would end in his condo. He fixed a drink for her and sat her down at one of the booths in the restaurant proper while he hustled the two men into the back room behind the bar. He closed the door very carefully because this was a conversation he didn’t want overheard. They would not have shown up like this except with bad news.

He had chosen her very carefully, needing to present a certain image. He had been very lucky Cassie Malone also had a brain. Or maybe not so lucky, as it turned out. She had to have heard enough of that conversation to spook her. That was when her brains kicked in. Her excuse that she’ decided not to wait any longer or to interrupt his business meeting was suspicious. Normally, she would have waited. She’d done it before.

She hadn’t used any credit cards. He’d had his pet hacker check on that. There had been one large cash withdrawal, but that was a few days prior. Probably for their planned Vegas trip, but it meant she had a stash to hold her until she got a job. If she did, that meant she’d have to open an account somewhere. Nobody was going to pay her in cash.

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