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That agent had been rescued So why hadn’t a tea closer" Her voice was a breath of terror
"No worries, baby By nightfall, we’re going to be safe and sound and celebrating with so just for the end of this et you drunk and seduce you"
"Seduce me?"
"Oh yeah" He held her closer "I’ll lay you down and kiss every bruise, then lick all the hurt away I’ll lave those pretty, tender nipples, and when I go lower, you’ll forget all about the pain"
"Ego" She was shuddering in his ar into the ravine
"Truth" He kissed the top of her head "When I’m finished, this will all seeone away It will be just s that ht make both of us blush"
"I bet you don’t blush" She buried her face in his chest at the sound of voices shouting in Arabic
"I bet you could make me blush" He kissed the top of her head and sht vibration of the radio at his thigh "You gonna nal" He took her hand and laid it against the radio "Five h here Five hours and I’ to make you blush"
"You can’t" He could have sworn he heard tears in her voice
"Making you blush would be my sole aim in life," he murmured "I promise, baby, I can do it"
"I’ust, Four Years Later
Chaya Greta Dane found the tracking device that had been left beneath Dawg Mackay’s vehicle on the side of a dirt road so deep in the Kentuckyher way out
She blew out a hard breath and shook her head The Mackays weren’t stupid, but sometimes her boss liked to pretend they were, and that was a very big ht of the fact that Cranston really wasn’t a fool
She stared around the area before brushing back her dark blond hair and resigning herself to the inevitable
Dawg Mackay had led her on aThrough twisting hollows, up steep mountain roads that barely passed as trails, and into the thick forests that surrounded Lake Cumberland like a protective lover
She would find her way out, eventually, but there was no doubt she was stuck for the night Her satellite phone wasn’t cooperating for soht was cohtened froent had placed beneath the Mackay vehicle, propped her hands on her hips, and stared around the thick forest surrounding her
It would have been enjoyable if she’d been prepared Siht, a sleeping bag hts Too er she was around Natches Mackay and all the memories she tried to push behind her
She shook her head and reached inside her back pocket for the habit she had picked up again in the past few arette pack she had stuck there earlier e her head, she wadded up the pack and tossed it into the back of the borrowed jeep her boss had had waiting for her just outside of So and his lover, Crista Jansen, had been heading in
Crista Jansen looked too da a missile sale between hijackers and terrorists to suit the Department of Homeland Security It had been her job to follow Crista, to keep an eye on her and whoever shewith nothing less than every inch of that Kentucky native’s hard body Daasn’t a traitor He wanted those missiles as much as they did, and it was apparent he believed his woht the person they loved was innocent Human nature had a tendency to overlook the truth whenever it wanted to She had learned that lesson herself, the hard way
Always the hard way And look at what she had lost Sometimes Chaya wondered if she hadn’t lost her soul in a desert so bleak it sucked the spirit out of a person
She snorted at that thought as she kicked at a cluainst her car, deter unreachable by her boss, Ti both the cell and sat phones And here she stood, breathing in the freshthe peace of the place wrap around her, sink inside her