Undercover M.D. by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Women Physicians, Erotica, General, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780373272617
Google: Nua2ZIAjglwC
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Dusk was beginning to tiptoe in along the streets like a shy bride on her wedding night. The neighborhood children within the development had long since headed back home, to face chores, homework or both.

Terrance shifted in his seat. Next time he was going to have to get a roomier car, he thought, disgruntled. One he could really stretch his legs out in. But then, he hadn’t bought the vehicle with long-term confinement in mind.

He glanced down the street. Other than a passing blackbird and the wind tousling the tops of the trees, there was no movement.

He shouldn’t be here.

He was, Terrance thought, behaving like some lovesick schoolboy. Trying to placate his conscience by giving himself a load of excuses for his sitting out here was just that: a load of excuses. There was no reason for him to be on the lookout for Harris. If the man was with Alix tonight, then he wouldn’t risk making contact with any of the people involved in the drug cartel. Even Harris wouldn’t be that stupid.

No, it wasn’t the operation that had him out here. What motivated him to be sitting in his car, across the street and down the block from Alix’s house was the fact that he didn’t trust Harris not to make a move on Alix—a move he couldn’t bring himself to believe that she would actually invite.

Which meant that he’d have to somehow find a way to protect her that wouldn’t blow his cover.

He blew out a breath, aggravated with her. With himself.

If she wouldn’t invite any moves from Harris, then what the hell was she doing going out with the man in the first place? Alix wasn’t a casual woman. She didn’t just flit from one man to another in search of fun. That wasn’t like her.

She didn’t—

How the hell did he know what she did or didn’t do anymore? he demanded silently. It’d been six years since he’d been with her. Six long years. People changed in six years.

But not Alix.

He couldn’t get himself to believe that she would change. Oh sure, she’d gotten more independent, more assertive, but this went way beyond that. It was like saying that a rabbit could become a bat. There was no basis for it in nature.

He argued with himself, getting nowhere and staying put until he saw Harris pull up in Alix’s driveway in his flaming-red Ferrari.

“Showtime,” he murmured to himself, making sure that the earpiece to the transmitter he had planted in Harris’s coat was firmly in place. Thanks to the device, he’d be privy to any conversation Harris and Alix had as long as it was somewhere within range of the coat.

He wasn’t sure if that was going to be a blessing or a curse.

Because the device had a range of twelve city blocks, Terrance could keep a safe, undetectable distance behind their car and still not lose them. It came in handy when traffic separated him from the Ferrari for a good ten minutes.

He was hardly surprised when Harris took Alix to the most expensive restaurant in Newport Beach for dinner.

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