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Just then her voice slid like silk over Cole’s ears

"I much preferred my hotel," she said crossly "I don’t knohy it was so important for you to take me somewhere else"

"Whoa, what?" Dolphin asked

"Hell no She’s not leaving this hotel Check your GPS Give me her location"

Dolphin and Cole stepped off the elevator and quietly went to the rooht up the handheld GPS

"It says she’s right there Next door"

"But she said why it was so ihtened even more "I don’t like this, Dolphin"

"The city is beautiful," PJ said, onceWhat river are we crossing?"

Cole and Dolphin exchanged looks and then at the sah force to knock it down They rushed into the hotel room only to find it e else was exactly as PJ had left it

Their gazes tracked doard, and lying on the floor was the jewelry that PJ had been wearing The necklace was carelessly strewn and the earrings were scattered as if they’d been ripped off her and discarded Just as they took in the glittering bracelet that was broken into three pieces, PJ’s voice came over the wire once more

"I still can’t believe you broke my bracelet," she said in a pouty tone "It was my favorite"

"It wasn’t even real," Nelson said impatiently "Besides, you won’t need it All you need to worry about is pleasing me"

The threat in his voice sent a hot flush down Cole’s body Rage Anger that PJ was vulnerable and as of now he didn’t have a fucking clue where she was She was trying to give theh the wire Donovan had planted on her

Steele, Donovan, Baker and Renshaw burst into the roo he had

Cole looked up as cold fear replaced the heated fury that had boiled in his veins He held up the broken bracelet so the others could see it

"We have a huge fucking problem here"

CHAPTER 9

PJ’S nerves were shot to hell by the ti stone house just a few e of the hustle and bustle of don, it was a quiet neighborhood with e he’d driven into was huge

She oohed and made the appropriate noises of appreciation all the while trying her best to convey enough information that her team could find her She probably sounded like a complete airhead with the way she parroted information, but damn it, she was scared

Never before on a mission had she felt fear like this If soht now she couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn But then she’d never been separated fro support

Now? She was completely on her own

She was convinced that the asshole had broken her bracelet on purpose, which meant she was in some pretty deep shit If he suspected she wasn’t who she said she was or even if he just wanted to play it safe, it still left her without a huge safety net And it meant he had some not-so-nice plans for her

At least she still had the patch on her arm so her teammates could hear her

"You talk too damn much," Nelson snapped as he herded her toward the door

She halted andhuffy "Thenme back to my hotel"

His hand curled around her nape and he all but shoved her inside the house "Not going to happen, princess"

"What the hell is wrong with you?" she derasp

But his fingers pressed tighter into her flesh and he all but picked her up, dragging her into the spacious sitting room He tossed her down onto the couch and then wrested the bottle of tequila fro anywhere," he threatened

She held up her hands hoping to hell they weren’t shaking

"Hey, chill out Pour us a drink No need to get so dah Are you into that kinky shit? Because let o too far that I’ht now"

He gave her a look that told her without words to shut up She went silent and waited, every single second agonizing

He pulled out glasses that dalasses and he poured a liberal amount of tequila into both A lasses into her hand

"Bottoh she could toss his ass and be out of this Or h tiet her Either plan worked for her

She gulped down half the contents of the tequila, stopping before she risked puking it all back up She wiped the back of her mouth with her hand as he finished off his To her surprise he didn’t get angry that she hadn’t drunk it all He took the glass froesture

He gave her a look that seeo down for the evening, but the boss saw you and he wanted you Not much I could do after that"

Oh shit Shit, shit, shit! Her adrenaline shot up and her pulse started pounding like a jackhahtened anxiety and her increased pulse rate, the roo in slow motion She tried to lift one of her arms and it felt like it was encased in lead

"You drugged arbled that her tea for this ht Drugging is the coward’s way out, butthey’re coed as hetoward the couch "I don’twhen I overpower them"

"You’re sick All of you Sick bastards," she croaked