Total pages in book: 153
Estimated words: 144571 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 723(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 482(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 144571 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 723(@200wpm)___ 578(@250wpm)___ 482(@300wpm)
She was happy here. Relaxed and in her element in a way he hadn’t known she could be. She was a mystery, and he loved uncovering new facets of her.
“Black Widow,” he agreed. “So we have Jimmy, who got a smack down. Mrs. Teacle got a couple of weeks in prison.”
“Minimum security,” Kala pointed out. “And she had to sell that Porsche that made her look like a douchebag. You’re welcome.”
He wasn’t done. They’d been spending a lot of time going over her list. When they weren’t fucking. They’d done a lot of fucking. She seemed to be making up for lost time.
He was her only lover. He intended to keep it that way.
“Susie Clifton, who broke up with me right before prom, had some very nasty texts about her that her friends on the cheerleading team released to the school website.” He was still surprised at that one. He shouldn’t be. She’d loved him back then. She just hadn’t trusted him. “My traveling team coach, my boss at the ice cream shop.”
She turned, her thumbs under the straps of her backpack. “There’s probably more. You’re lucky I didn’t keep up with you in college. And you know what? You’ve never once risked prison time to get revenge on someone who hurt me. Where’s the love, McKay?”
Oh, she’d started using that word. Maybe not exactly the way he wanted her to, but it was creeping into her vocabulary in non-ironic ways. He moved in, standing over her. When she wasn’t in fuck-me heels, he had a good half foot on her. He let his hand caress her cheek. “Point them my way and I’ll take ’em all out. I promise.”
Her lips curled up slightly. “What are you going to do? Give them a good talking to?”
Oh, she thought he was soft. Luckily, he knew how to speak Taggart. “I promise you if I get my hands on Manny Huisman, I won’t talk to him. I don’t know. Maybe I will. We can have a conversation about internal organs while I feed him his. He’s a doctor, right?”
There was a hitch to her breath that got his cock hard. “A bad doctor. A doctor who should definitely be experimented on. Tell me more.”
He whispered in her ear and knew they were camping right here tonight.
Day Four
“What do you mean he wasn’t there?” Kala held the sat phone to her ear and thanked the universe her dad was better equipped than the Agency. He’d sent this brand-new state of the art baby with them, and her sister was coming in perfectly clear even though they were miles and miles away from the nearest cell tower. It didn’t matter because this sucker was pinging around space.
Her twin sniffled. “They said he was on another mission. But I know he was in Toronto before I got there.”
“How would you know?” She was a menace? Had Cooper met her twin?
“I make friends. I might have made friends with a couple of Canadian analysts we’ve worked with. You know, the ones you haven’t met.”
That was fair. She could be hell on an analyst. It was best to let her twin deal with the admin stuff. Or Coop. He was good with that. If they ever managed MT, she would be the big-picture chick and Coop would deal with the day-to-day stuff.
Was she actually seeing a future where she was married to Cooper and they took over McKay-Taggart? It wouldn’t happen. It was far more likely Tash would take over. Tash could do it all.
Although it wasn’t like her dad was some easy to get along with dude, and he’d managed. Of course, he tended to be more open to therapy than she was. It might be time to think about why it worked for the old man.
For now, her sister was really better at parts of this game they played. “So you got some Canadian analyst to betray her country and tell you where their very valuable assets are?”
Kenzie huffed over the line. “It’s not like that. We were talking. I took her out to lunch and I mentioned how sad I was to have missed Ben.” The sniffling started again. “She said he took off right after the meeting where they informed everyone the Agency was coming in. She wasn’t sure he knew it would be me, though. Do you think he was trying to avoid Dad? He hasn’t been particularly nice to Ben.”
Because Ben was an asshole, but that was Kenzie’s type and she was trying to be more magnanimous. Her sister couldn’t help her terrible taste in men. “I think he’ll be more polite from now on since Ben did the whole save-me thing. I’m surprised. Carys told me you made up in the hospital.”
“Babe, what are you doing?” Cooper strode into their camp, two big fish dangling from his line. “You know that’s for emergencies only. Is that Kenz?”