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“Oh, cool So you can re you read and hear?” Jessie asked
Shadoe nodded
“Bullshit” Spencer didn’t believe anyone could have a photographic memory
“ ‘No way in hell is anyone going to believe she’s a stripper Sorry, darlin’, but you’re not the right man for the job Well, look at you Loose, dark pantsuit with God only knohat kind of body underneath it, hair in a bun without one strand out of place Your face is pinched so tight you look like you have a stick shoved up your ass’Should I go on, Spence, or stop now?”
“Well, goddaht before y’all came in”
“No shit?” AJ asked
“No shit” Spence looked back at Shadoe with a nod of appreciation “I stand corrected, darlin’ You’ve got the skills”
Those weren’t her only skills, either Because when her lips lifted in a hint of a smile, he saw a spark flash from her brown eyes that rocked his balls into a quiver of awareness Da, without makeup, and with hair pulled back, there was definitelyso
“Can we move on now, Spencer, or do you want to bullshit all day?”
Spence nodded, realizing he’d pissed off Grange “Sorry, General”
“Okay We have intelligence that a shipue will be there to meet with hisor herColombian contact in New Orleans sometime within the next couple of weeks We don’t knoho either is, but with Agent Grayson’s assistance, we hope to nab the rogue”
“What’s the plan?” Lily asked
“Agent Grayson and Spencer will be going undercover at the Wild Rose Club in the French Quarter The tipoff is that transactions go down at the club, but the DEA has never been able to prove it or to set anyone up inside that the rogue can’tto plant our insiders”
“Hot damn! One of the finest strip clubs in the city,” Rick said
Grange nodded “Agent Grayson will be undercover as a feature stripper, Spencer as her bodyguard AJ and Pax will go along as backup”
“Oooh, can I strip?” Jessie asked
“Oh, hell no,” Diaz said
Jessie affected a pout “I never get to have any fun”
AJ snorted “Your day will couys out there who’d love to see you naked”
“Over my dead body,” Diaz said
Jessie grinned at that Spencer shook his head Jessie was the baby of the bunch She’d been with the Wild Riders since Mac rescued her from a really bad situation when she was a teen She was more little sister than partner to theh, had finished her first assignment a few months back with Spence and Diaz Jessie and Diaz had fallen in love on that case, ether in the future a sticky situation But since Mac and Lily e could work it out with Diaz and Jessie, too Spence was just glad he didn’t have to deal with those kinds of entangle entirely different and not in his vocabulary
“Anyway,” Grange said, wrangling their attention again, “Agent Grayson will be the headliner at the club Spence will be set up as her bodyguard, which provides her protection and they can back each other up, which gives theether AJ and Pax will be vacationers who show up nightly and will interact with the crowds, in and out of the bar scene”
“Didn’t you two luck out,” Rick said, crossing his arlare at AJ and Pax
AJ grinned “Well, it’s a tough job, but someone has to do it”
Grange cleared his throat and caught everyone’s attention again “Agent Grayson has ent books She’s the only one ill be able to identify the rogue agent when he or she ent when Shadoe identifies hi”
“After she learns to strip,” Spence added
Shadoe didn’t even look at hi He smiled at her irritation
“I have an expert coe said
“Please, everyone, callis too fora pointed look in his direction, “I need to loosen up”
He winked She rolled her eyes
This was going to be fun
SHADOE UNPACKED, RATHER FURIOUSLY, JAMMING HER THINGS IN the two-drawer dresser in the tiny bedroom provided to her by General Lee At least she could take out her frustrations on her clothing instead of the huge hulk of a man who’d infuriated her from the start
Spencer Why did he have to be the one she was going to work so closely with? The other guys seeant ass who’d apparently already deterainst hundreds of guys just like hi with her father She’d irl and her father had never forgiven her for that
She’d show hinment And when she rose to the top of the ranks at the departender did not preclude her fro successful in law enforcement
Just because all her father’s brothers had been graced with sons and her father had hter did not make her a mistake, did not make her less than worthy to carry on the Grayson tradition of being prominent, decorated officers
Her father was an ass So was Spencer She’d prove herself
She’d parade down Bourbon Street stark naked if she had to, but she’d nab the rogue agent
A knock at the door forced her to hurry and shove the last of her things in the drawer She opened the door to find her new partner taking up most of the doorway
God, Spencer was ieous, if she had to admit it Brown hair cut razor short, and eyes the color of the ocean, with a square jaw that bore a hint of unshaven stubble If she was the kind of wo man, she’d be a puddle on the floor by now
Good thing her career took all her time and she didn’t focus on men and sex
Though her body was doing a pretty darn good inored it “Yes?”