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“Even if they were going to kill me?”
“Like you said, let’s take it one step at a time,” she said coolly.
“Harrowsfield.”
“What about it?”
“Take me there.”
Reggie looked startled. “What?”
“Take me there.”
“Have you gone mental? You want me to waltz right in and say, ‘Hello, everyone, here’s Shaw. I don’t know really who the hell he is, but let’s all have a spot of tea and play nice’?”
“I’ll leave the explanation up to you.”
“You can’t be serious.”
“I’m very serious.”
“And what if I refuse?”
“Then I make a phone call and it’s out of my hands. All of you go down.”
She slowly stood and glared down at him. “You’d really do that to me? After what just happened on this bed? And in that damn shower?”
“First rule in the line of work we loosely call a job? Personal gets checked at the door. Only amateurs forget that rule, or maybe they never understood it in the first place.”
“So you just banged me for the hell of it? And then dropped this threat on me? You bastard.” She moved to slap him, but he caught her hand.
“What you don’t seem to get, Reggie, is that I’m putting my life entirely on the line to help you. The odds are much greater he’ll get to you and your people first. I’m offering to do all I can to stop him. But in order to do that you have to trust me. What happened between us in
this room I don’t take lightly. If that explanation isn’t good enough for you, then go ahead and hit me. But make it as hard as you can. It’ll be the only shot you get.”
He let go of her hand and waited.
They stared eye to eye in silence for several long seconds.
Finally, Reggie said, “Get dressed. I need to go to my place to change clothes. And you’re going to at least feed me a proper English breakfast before I go down in flames at bloody Harrowsfield.”
CHAPTER
75
SHAW HAD three cups of coffee while Reggie ate probably the biggest breakfast of her life.
“Sex gives you an appetite?” said Shaw.
“It wasn’t the sex.”
“What then?”
“Guilt.”
“Nothing to feel guilty about.”
“Maybe for you. Me, I’ve got plenty to feel shitty about.”
