Total pages in book: 160
Estimated words: 149137 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 746(@200wpm)___ 597(@250wpm)___ 497(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 149137 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 746(@200wpm)___ 597(@250wpm)___ 497(@300wpm)
“It’s gone perfectly,” she replied. “I’m afraid you hung out with the bugs for no reason.”
His eyes told her he didn’t agree. “I don’t trust perfect. Let’s get this over with. Maybe I can hide out and hitch a ride back with you two in the morning.”
They moved in time, going up the stairs to the second floor where Morales’s private office was kept.
“At least we caught one break,” Riley was saying in her ear. “I’m close to you. I’m in Shane’s cottage and I can easily get under the window. You won’t have to leave the house to get the package to me. You’re clear on the second floor. He’s got all his guards on the outer periphery. Declan is going to drive me out with the excuse that he’s got to pick up Mr. Hunt’s prescription in town. They’ve been told to give Josh anything he wants. They won’t check the trunk. It would be insulting.”
Poor Riley. She wondered how he’d drawn that duty. Despite the fact that the limo had a nice-sized trunk, she doubted it would be comfy for him.
She stopped, some instinct deep inside her telling her she wasn’t alone.
Ezra paused beside her and suddenly there was a Ruger in his hand. “Where is it?”
“I can’t tell,” she replied quietly.
“You okay? I’m not picking anyone up,” Riley assured her.
She couldn’t help it. Perhaps she was too emotional, too close to the heart of the op. She was sensing things that weren’t there.
“Let’s get into the office,” Ezra urged. “We’re in the open out here. Come on.”
She followed him up the stairs. He was right. They needed to get this done and she would feel better. She would meet up with Josh and they would have one last night together.
It was five minutes and then she would be done and she could get on with the rest of her life.
She used the security card she’d lifted off Morales earlier at dinner and the door clicked open. Thanks to her boys, the guards wouldn’t get that notification either.
“All right, Kay. I’m coming to you. Be there in roughly three minutes.”
The line went dead and she was on her own.
She glanced over at Ezra. “Riley’s on his way. We’re making the drop via…well, drop. I’m dropping it out the window.”
He nodded, glancing around the wood-paneled office before holding out a drive of his own. “Make me a copy?”
He really didn’t trust Levi if he wanted his own copy. She plugged in the drive to the computer’s USB port and let the program it uploaded start to work.
Her heart rate was up. Damn, maybe she was right to get out of the business. Lately all she’d been doing were corporate jobs and bodyguard assignments. She was off her game.
She wanted out of the game. She greatly preferred hanging with Tucker and the Lost Boys to risking her life. In the beginning she’d found her inner adrenaline junkie, but over the years she wanted peace more than some thrill.
Josh would think Tucker and the boys were a hoot. It would have been fun to introduce him to her world. Josh was like a sponge. Perhaps it was all the years of going without learning, only surviving from day to day, but Josh was so vibrant when he was learning something new. He soaked up every experience.
Huh, funny. That was what they had in common, a thirst for life, for new experiences, for stories untold and people they hadn’t met yet. He was quieter about it, as though he didn’t trust he would get the experience if he wanted it too much.
Could it be that he wanted her too much and he didn’t trust the world to let him have her?
“Are you going to be okay? I heard Josh didn’t handle the truth well.” Ezra moved to the front of the desk.
Big Tag was such a gossip. “I’m fine. Well, not fine. I ache. I hate this part of the love thing. This part sucks, but I knew he wouldn’t be able to handle it if I told him. I made the choice. I couldn’t send him in here alone even if it meant losing him.”
“And this DEA agent who tipped him off about Morales? You know anything about him?”
“I’m working up a file on him, but he seems legit. I mean he’s DEA, shouldn’t he know who the drug lords are? If I were in Tyler Williams’s shoes, I would have told him, too.”
The device Levi had given her pinged and she changed it out for Ezra’s.
A few minutes more and they would be done.
“Why don’t you head out with Riley?” She didn’t like the idea that he could be found. The point of Riley taking the drive was so if she got caught, no one could connect her. There wouldn’t be any evidence that she’d taken a thing.