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“Okay.”
“I thought he would never slip up. He was a legend in the business. I think both the CIA and KGB had studied him over the years. There was no situation he couldn’t get out of. Or at least, I thought there wasn’t. And when she disappeared right after her father died, I looked for her like I said. When I couldn’t find her, I feared the worst. Little did I know she made one mistake.”
“And that would be?”
Sean stopped pacing. “You.”
Devon said nothing to that. He couldn’t because he didn’t like being anyone’s mistake. Although…now that he thought of it, if a mistake was the best night of his life, he would gladly call himself a mistake.
“Oh, good lord, stop looking like that. It’s disgusting.”
Devon focused on Kaheaku again. “What?”
“I’m trying to have a conversation with you here, Stryker. You’re getting all moony eyed and, damn, you’re sweating.”
He wasn’t, was he? Now that he thought about it, it was kind of hot in his office.
“Sorry. Go on.”
Sean collapsed in the chair he had vacated just a few moments earlier.
“She never had a boyfriend, you know. I’m pretty sure her first time in bed was on the job.”
That cooled his libido. “Are you trying to tell me that she lost her virginity on the job?”
Sean nodded. “I don’t like to think about it, mainly because it kind of grosses me out.”
“Really?”
“Answer me this, Stryker. Do you want me to go into the last time I saw your sister and her husband put on a demonstration at Rough ‘n Ready?”
He shook his head. “Point taken.”
“She made a mistake with you. She should have just taken you down. The woman is lethal with her hands. A lot of people don’t know that, but she is. She is almost always armed. Her father taught her well. And if she wanted to get information out of you right off, she could have interrogated you and gotten what she wanted. Instead, she ended up sleeping with you. Worse, she let you slip away.”
“She was using me.”
“You don’t know much about the spy business, so I’ll let you in on a little secret. A honey trap is a long kind of job. It’s one way to gain the trust of the subject. Sometimes, it takes weeks to work. That was not what she should have been doing.”
He shrugged. “She made a mistake.”
“Yes, and if there is one person who knows how to work strategy, it would be Alicia. She should have known not to do that. She had one night…you don’t go through with sex if you have them cornered. She had you cornered. Just know this, Stryker, you hurt her, I’ll make sure they can’t identify your remains.”
“Is that a threat?”
The smile Kaheaku gave him had nothing to do with humor. “I don’t issue threats, Stryker. I do offer promises, however.”
“Understood.”
“Do you know what your intentions are?”
“My main intention is to keep her and my child safe.”
“I guess I can’t ask you about after, because at the moment, there are too many variables.”
He knew he could let it lie at that, but Devon decided to clear the air completely.
“Know this, I plan on making sure that both Ali and Bridget are safe but after, I do not plan on disappearing. Whether Ali likes it or not, I am sticking around for the next few decades.”
