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“So that’s how you’re gonna play it?”
“Yep,” I answered honestly.
“You know—”
“I know she’s doing us both a favor,” I started. “I know I need to follow her lead and forget about her. What happened, happened and it should end there.”
“And what exactly happened?”
Fuck.
My phone vibrated and damn if my heart didn’t kick up a notch.
I tapped in my code and unlocked the phone.
I’m crazy busy at work this week. There’s a VIP in town and he’s a pain up my ass.
The next message came quickly.
Wait! I mean, *in* my ass. Not up it.
I would’ve smiled at the typo if I hadn’t been in a shit mood for the last ten days.
Without responding I pocketed my phone.
“Did Rhode send the full workup on Catarina?” I asked.
Jack blew out an annoyed breath. “Not yet.”
I needed that workup before I agreed to go undercover with the woman. Joan Heffner had handpicked Catarina for the assignment. But I had my reservations. She was young and had only been with the sex offender investigative operations branch for a year.
“You’re not feeling her for the job?” Jack deduced.
“I’d like to know the person who’s supposed to have my back during an operation can actually have it.”
“The dossier that was sent over was impressive. She was Army counter-intelligence.”
Catarina was also part of a SOCOM tactical human intel team but that didn’t mean she had the right training or skills to go undercover.
“She’s also thirty,” I shot back.
Jack’s black eyes narrowed.
“What does her age have to do with anything?”
“All I’m saying is she’s young.”
She was also blonde, blue eyed, and petite.
A combination that always made my gut clench.
“And gorgeous. She’ll turn heads. Which is what you need walking into this.”
“What I need is someone who’s not going to get me dead.”
I knew Jack had more to say, fortunately his phone rang before he could press the issue.
“Hey, Rhode. Let me put you on speaker.” Jack lowered his phone and tapped the screen. “Whatcha got?”
