The Wrangler And The Runaway Mom. RaeAnne Thayne
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Название: The Wrangler And The Runaway Mom
Автор: RaeAnne Thayne
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Контркультура
Серия: Mills & Boon M&B
isbn: 9781474046039
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“I want out.”
He could practically hear his boss’s frown over the phone. “What happened?”
Maggie Rawlings, and her big eyes, happened. He couldn’t very well voice the thought, though. “Nothing’s happened. I just don’t think I’m making any progress gaining the woman’s trust,” he lied.
“You’ve been on the job less than a week. Give it some time.”
“I don’t want to give it time. I just want out. I’m too damn old to rodeo.” That, at least, was the truth
His boss laughed. “You’re thirty-six, McKendrick. I think you have a few good rides left in you.”
“I’d rather be taking them on my ranch than in the arena against a bunch of twenty-year-olds ”
“Haven’t we had this conversation already? Look, the net is tightening on DeMarranville. I know you want to put him away every bit as much as I do, and all my instincts are telling me Dr. Rawlings is the one person who can help us do that.”
“Let me go at DeMarranville another way. Maybe I can work on a couple of his men who might be ready to cut a deal against him. Last I talked to Joey Perone, he sounded like he could be bought.”
“No dice. I need you there. Right where you are.” Beckstead paused. “You realize there’s more at stake here than just the disk, don’t you?”
“What do you mean?”
“We both know it’s only a matter of time until DeMarranville tracks her down.”
“If he hasn’t already.”
“He hasn’t. Our sources inside his organization are quite clear on that. Not for lack of trying, though. His people are looking everywhere.”
“Damian is nothing if not efficient.”
“He doesn’t know she witnessed the hit on her husband—if he did, she never would have made it this far—but he wants the disk more than we do. He’s going to be very unhappy if she doesn’t give it up.”
“What if she doesn’t have it?”
“Do you think he’s going to play nice if he thinks she’s holding out on him? If she really doesn’t know what her husband was involved with, I’d hate to see her or the kid get caught in the crossfire.”
Son of a bitch. Colt stared out through the rain streaking down the window like tears. He hated to think of Maggie or her son in DeMarranville’s hands.
“I’d feel better knowing one of our agents was close to her, to offer some degree of protection,” Beckstead went on.
What would his boss say if he knew exactly how close Colt wanted to be to the accountant’s widow? “Okay,” he growled, pushing the thought away. “But the stakes just went up. I want three months away from the Bureau when I’m done here.”
“We bring down DeMarranville and you can have as much time as you want.”
But would it be enough to make him forget Maggie Rawlings, with her big eyes and her outlaw son?
Somehow he doubted it.
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