Page 74 of The Perfect Stranger

Chapter Twenty-Six

Nina looked nervous.

“Something wrong?” I asked, shrugging off my jacket. We had checked into a luxury hotel, one stop away from our final destination.

“No, not at all,” she lied taking in the one and only bed in the room.

Her response triggered my smile and I watched the blush creep down Nina’s neck to rest on her chest. I wanted to throw her on the bed and show her exactly why she should be nervous.

“You should get some rest,” I suggested, coming to my senses. Nina’s curious eyes watched while I unhooked my utility belt.

“You’re not Tact Force,” she began. “If you were, there’s no way you’d be allowed to be on my tail. For some reason, the FBI is distancing itself from me.”

She truly had no idea how corrupt her co-workers were.

She was completely in the dark about how they had implicated her.

She was non-the-wiser about how her own team had left her stranded.

“The last thing I believe they’d do…” she continued, “…is allow someone like yourself to cover my ass. If you work for Evan Jacobs, you’re no longer a Government employee.”

Evan Jacobs is a lying son of a bitch.

Like me.

“Is that so?”

“Yes, that’s so. So tell me…” she took a few steps forward, our bodies becoming almost like magnets, “…did you get suspended along with Jacobs?”

Suspended?

If only.

Rounding on Nina, she instinctively moved back until she met with the wall. Placing an arm either side of my head, I trapped her in, holding her gaze.

“Very inquisitive, aren’t you, cariña.” My voice was a slow rumble.

“It’s my job to be,” she replied, shakily.

“You’re already a scared little lamb surrounded by wolves. You don’t want to become an even tastier target.”

“I’m not scared.”

“You’re trembling.”

“I’m not scared of you.”

“But I’m exactly like them.”

“How can you be like them if you’re helping me?”

“The curious lamb. Sweetheart, some questions are better left unanswered.”

“Am I safe with you?”

I considered that question for a moment. “You’ve asked me that before.”

“Am I?”

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