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A Beautiful Lie Tara Sivec 45080K 2023-08-31

Parker chuckled to hide her sarcass that cohter," Parker replied

Garrett felt like he was

"I think it’s very important for a couple to have some time alone after they are married to discover one another, as man and wife You can’t really do that in your own home with day to day interruptions

Even Parker was confused at this point, having no idea where Fernandez was going with this

"I would like you and your lovely wife to coht in the guest quarters on the second floor where my staff will cater to your every need"

Parker and Garrett’s confused expressions equaled one another

"Mr President, that’s incredibly generous but"

Fernandez interrupted Garrett

"Nonsense, I insist The two of you have a passion that deserves to be unbound in celebration of your love It would make me very happy to offer up e in luxury The following evening after you are well rested, we’ll meet over dinner and conduct that interview you’re so anxious about"

Fernandez said goodnight to Garrett and Parker and told the He left the for the elevator while he went back to the rest of his guests

Garrett and Parker didn’t speak until the elevator doors opened and they stepped inside

"Did the President of the Doive us the interviee stayed at his palace and had sex?" Parker asked, the shock clearly evident in her voice

Garrett, equally amazed, nodded his head

"Yep, I’m pretty sure that’s what just happened"

Chapter Eleven

Garrett and Parker pretended the kiss froht never happened, on the outside at least Internally, they were both thinking about it, constantly replaying it over and over in their minds Parker didn’t want to talk about it because she was still hurt Garrett so cavalierly brushed it off as no big deal, and Garrett, like a typical o away

If he ignored how nored how much he ached to feel the touch of her breath on his face and the taste of her lips on his tongue, eventually it wouldn’t be a proble, when he still hadn’t fallen asleep because listening to Parker’s gentle breathing and quiet h to cut glass, he knew this was a probleot out of bed exhausted, neither one inmood

They met for breakfast in Austin’s rooh food to feed a small ar into the food Austin gave them a breakdown of what they found when they scouted the locations froht before Brady was late for breakfast and Austin infor off in his room and would be there soon

Austin explained that the three men went to each of the eleven businesses on the list Every building was closed for the night and locked tight, but that didn’t stop the a way inside to search the files kept on-site They found nofor hiainst a wall as they continued to hit dead ends No one was this perfect People made mistakes all the time They just had to find one of Fernandez’s and then everything would unravel

Brady walked into the room at that point and handed Garrett the print out that made him late It was an address and directions

"Is this it? Is this for The Target Agency?" Garrett questioned

Parker leaned towards Garrett to see as on the paper while Brady poured himself a cup of coffee and sat on the end of the bed

"Well, we don’t know exactly what that address is for," Cole answered from his seat across from Parker "The last business ent to was the insurance company I found a few pieces of forwarded mail in one of the trash cans under the receptionist’s desk Mail from that address" Cole pointed to the paper Garrett held "was forwarded to the insurance co six feet, Cole was the shortest on the team, and he never failed to overco his job With his short blonde hair and chocolate colored eyes, he was easily forgotten about in a crohich made him the perfect candidate for undercover work Much to his parent’s dishteen he ripped the silver spoon from his mouth, threw it as far away as possible and did the exact opposite of what they wanted Their constant nagging about hiave Cole all the incentive he needed to do every single job to the absolute best of his ability He didn’t need anyone or anything but his SEAL brothers, and he would always ot off the phone with the post office, which is a huge clusterfuck by the way, and according to the order was a typo in their system," Brady ju all of their software and it reset a bunch of forwarding requests froo The request to have mail from the address I printed sent to the insurance colanced at one another Eight years ago hen The Target Agency first opened--and when Parker beca was starting with correlate to that point in ti more than a little unsettled

"The forwards lasted for two days before the post office caught the error and stopped the Parker and Garrett’s attention back to hi whatever was in the envelopes wasn’t anything important?" Garrett asked

Cole shook his head

"Nope, just soured the two of you would want to check out the address yourselves"

Everyone finished up breakfast, then Garrett and Parker headed out to the parking lot to get one of the rental SUVs while the guys stayed at the resort in case they needed so looked up on the co fat elephant in the car, the sleepover they were supposed to have at the palace that night, was shoved into the trunk and never brought up Instead, they discussed possibilities of what theyturns, Garrett drove down a long dirt road for about three miles until they came to an old abandoned warehouse in the ot out Parker turned in a circle, looking every which way