The Agent Next Door by Adrienne Bell

Author:Adrienne Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romantic suspense, romantic comedy, sexy, intrigue, rom com, alpha male, military romance, blaze, cop romance

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“Do I really have to do this?” Erin asked. She felt like an idiot for shouting, but there was no way around it. If she couldn’t hear anything in these silly ear defenders, then she figured John couldn’t either.

“You don’t have to do anything.” He was close behind her, just over her left shoulder. “We can always get in the car and go home.”

Like hell.

Erin drew in a deep breath and looked down at the 9mm on the plywood ledge in front of her. John’s gun. Her gun if she ever found the courage to pick it up.

She reached out her hand. This time she made it to a few inches away from the grip before pulling back.

“Don’t be nervous,” John said.

Erin resisted the urge to kick him in the shins. Nervous? She wasn’t nervous. She was scared as hell.

She’d been around too many guns, seen their handiwork too many times, to be anything but. There had been weapons all over her father’s house. They’d hung off the hips of the men that had ripped her away from her mother. And they’d been in the hands of the agents who had shot her father down.

He’d taken more than a dozen hits, four of them clean through the heart, from a 9mm. Just like the one in front of her now.

The only thing that scared her more than touching it was the thought of never seeing her mom again.

Erin reached out her hand. This time her fingers wrapped around the hilt.

“Okay,” she said, trying to steady her breath. “Now what?”

Her house might have been full of the damned things when she was a kid, but that didn’t mean she’d ever fired one. Her mother might have been an outlaw, but that didn’t mean she’d been reckless with her daughter’s life. She’d been adamant that Erin never touch one.

He wrapped his arms around her, steadying her forearms as she lifted the barrel. Her trembling stilled a little.

“First, breathe,” he said. “The more relaxed you are, the more accurate you’ll be.”

Erin bit back a laugh. She was pretty much screwed then. John might be able to blackmail her into picking the damned thing up, but there was no way he was going to get her to like it.

Sure, she understood why he was making her go through this. He was afraid that she was giving up. But she wasn’t. She was just being honest. Her odds weren’t all that great. But if seeing her shoot off a couple rounds at the local firing range made him feel better about the whole thing then she would humor him.

Especially, since she had no other ride.

John guided her thumb back over the safety, unlocking the trigger. Erin closed her eyes as she wrapped her pointer finger over the trigger.

“Now just aim and squeeze.”

Erin opened her eyes and forced in another breath. She pointed the barrel in the general direction of the paper target off in the distance, braced herself, and pulled back hard.

A puff of brown dirt flew into the air as the bullet dug into the dirt twenty feet in front of her.

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