The Devil You Know by Katherine Garbera

Author:Katherine Garbera [Garbera, Katherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-02T05:00:00+00:00

Linc walked around the bedroom, pacing as he waited for Ella to finish her shower. There was a small crack between the window’s edge and the end of the blinds that provided Linc with a glimpse of the street. He could observe the neighborhood without being seen. He looked down toward the street and noticed that there was a large SUV parked in front of one of the neighboring houses that normally wasn’t there.

He tapped his earpiece to unmute it. “Two here. There’s a vehicle on the street I don’t recognize.”

He rattled off the plate number and waited. Cory was en route to this location as the makeup man, so that meant that Frank or Mick would have to look it up. “One here. Six is running the plate.”

Kaylee was six. Not really a part of their team officially, but she was on the Diavolos mission, having been the cyber operative who’d found his server farm and helped bring down one of Diavolos’s lead hackers, Dirk Thomas. He was Kaylee’s father, and he’d shot his own daughter and had been prepared to turn her over to Reece Hammond.

“Affirmative. Two out.”

“Four here,” Frank said. “Vehicle in question has two occupants. Neither has moved since the it pulled up two minutes ago.”

“Let me know if that changes. One out.”

The door to the adjoining bathroom opened and a waft of steam filled the room. Linc moved away from the window and turned to see Ella standing there, wrapped in a towel. Her blonde hair hung down around her shoulders, darker with the wetness.

He felt a jolt of desire and tried to force it down. He was on the job. He looked over her head at the door behind her.

“I don’t know what I should put on,” she said, softly. “I don’t want to stay naked, but my clothes are dirty and smell.”

“Let me get you something to wear,” he said, turning his back on her and going to the dresser in the corner of the room. He opened the top drawer and took out a track suit that one of his guys had left behind. There was also a t-shirt and some boxers, but no women’s underclothing.

“This is all I have.”

“I’ll take it,” she said, startling him, because she’d moved closer and now stood behind him.

Why hadn’t he heard her move?

He reached out to touch a strand of her hair before he could stop himself, pushing it back behind her ear and staring down at her upturned face. Her eyes were wide and she watched him carefully.

“Do I scare you?” he asked.

She shook her head, the wet strands of her hair sliding between his fingers. “The opposite. You make me feel safe, even though I know that security is an illusion.”

Her words were the truth and nothing more. There was no safe place for her until Reece Hammond was caught.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “I wanted to make this…well, not as horrible as it has been.”

“I know,” she said. “You have.”

He lightly touched the mark on her neck.

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