“Philadelphia. He planted her in the office there, and she’s been spying on us. He was suspicious we were a couple, so he sent the accomplice to a murdering mob man to watch us. He’s fucking sick!”
She gasped.
“Seriously?”
Gene minced no words.
He focused on Gabe.
“My partner gets his badge back, and we get placed in the same office until one of us asks to be set free from the FBI, or I go to the media. I’ll even lie to any investigators who ask me ifyou fell repeatedly, or Elizabeth beat your face against that desk. Seems you do a lot of people dirty…”
Gabe glared at Elizabeth.
“Your badge is going to go suspiciously missing,” he stated. “As in the paper shredder. I don’t allow myself to be blackmailed, even if it’s someone, I consider family,” he stated. “I’ll have your badge!”
Oh, did he just threaten her job?
Okay, checkmate.
She took her phone back from Gene, handed him his, and pulled up an email. Then, she walked it to her boss for him to swallow his tongue.
There would be no blackmail from him today.
“Read.”
Gabe took her phone and did just that.
‘Special Agent LaRue,
We thank you for the interview with us, and we are excited with the prospect that you might come work for us again. You did impressive work in Colombia. The CIA could use you at this time. We promise it will be kept on the DL, and neither director will know we approached you to steal you away. We can’t wait to hear from you.
Director Hawthorne.’
Gabe gasped again.
The CIA was recruiting his best agent out from under him? Seriously?
How had his day gone to shit so fast?
Oh, yeah.
He came to work.
“Are you fucking kidding me? The CIA is trying to steal you away?”
She pointed at Gene.
“He gets what he wants, or not only am I heading out to the CIA to play reindeer games with them, but Chris is leaving too. After he finds out that you played catch and release with Daphne Carmichael, after he had to dig in rotting bodies, and her husband tried to kill him and myself, he’ll bail. Rich dudes don’t need jobs. I’ll get myself married and stop getting shot at!”
Gabe stared at her.
“You’d do me dirty like that?”
She nodded.
Oh, she’d be bored out of her mind not working, but she’d have a fantastic tan off the shores of Greece with her hot doctor.
Bet.
