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“Come on, baby. What do you think?” Zack asked with a knowing laugh.
She wrinkled her nose at the smell of alcohol. What did she think? She thought their client was wasting her money and time on this louse. Zack wasn’t worth the trouble. “Think about what?”
He licked his lips as he stared at her chest. “Let’s go somewhere private.”
It was amazing. She hadn’t been kind to Zack and practically ignored him as she did surveillance on Mercedes and Tiffany. Yet he thought she was ready to jump into bed with him. The man was delusional. “Where do you suggest?” she asked.
“There’s a classy hotel next door.”
Julie shook her head, dismissing the idea. “I hear there’s a conference going on. No way could we get a room.”
Zack pulled out a hotel key card from his jeans pocket with a flourish. “I have one,” he said with a triumphant grin.
She didn’t expect that. “Well, aren’t you prepared?”
“Let’s go,” Zack said as he stood up.
She heard the crackle of static in her ear before Asia spoke. “Okay, Julie, I think we have enough. Wrap it up.”
“I’m sorry, Zack, but you’re just not my type.” She looked over his shoulder and her gaze clashed with Eric’s. “I like to tie up men and then lick every inch of them.”
Zack looked as if he was going to swallow his tongue.
Asia hooted with laughter. “Do you really think that’s going to make him back down?”
“I’m into that,” Zack insisted as sweat beaded on his upper lip.
“Ri-i-i-ight.” She drew the word out. “You look like a beginner. You wouldn’t last an hour as my sex slave.”
“Sweetie,” Asia’s voice crackled in her ear, “you just challenged his masculinity. We need to talk about how to repel a man.”
Zack slid his hands over her legs and cupped her ass. “Believe me, babe, I could last all night.”
“Good to know.” She saw Mercedes and Tiffany head for the restroom. Time was of the essence. “But first I need to make a phone call to my parole officer.”
Zack withdrew his hands. “P-parole officer?”
“It’s no big deal,” she said as she backed away. She couldn’t tell if the women had taken a couple of USB sticks or not. “I found out this guy I was sleeping with had a girlfriend. I kind of went all Fatal Attraction on him.”
“What?” His voice was a high squeak.
“That’s good, Julie,” Asia encouraged her. “Nothing freaks a man out more than a bunny boiler.”
“Oh, and I need to make a quick stop at the restroom. I have to take my antibiotics for my rash,” Julie announced. “I’ll be right back.”
She hurried to follow Mercedes and Tiffany. “Asia, do you think we have enough? I don’t think he’ll still be there when I return.”
“We have enough. If the pictures of how he kept grabbing you don’t do it for the girlfriend, the hotel key card should be enough evidence that he planned to cheat.”
Julie glanced over her shoulder. “Oh, look at that. Zack is already making his escape.”
“And Eric is calling me,” Asia said. “I bet he wants to know what you said to Zack that made him run.”
“Tell him to use his imagination,” she suggested. “I’m going to take out my earpiece and turn my phone on now.”
“You did great, Julie. I’ll see you in the hotel bar to celebrate.”
“Thanks.” She slowly removed her earpiece and dropped it in her tiny evening purse. As she stepped into the restroom and approached the mirrors, she thought about what her friend had said.
She got what she came for. She showed her colleagues that she could do the job. She got her target using strategy and a sexy alias. So why wasn’t she pumping her fist in the air and doing a victory dance?
Last week she had been disappointed when she didn’t entrap her man. Tonight she didn’t have anything to prove. She trusted her observation skills and her instincts. But it was more than that. She felt powerful and sexy.
Her confidence wasn’t from her alias. When she was around Eric, she felt strong and desirable. She was at the top of her game because he brought out the best of her.
Julie fished in her purse for her cell phone. She turned it on, wondering how many messages she’d received from Eric when she saw Mercedes and Tiffany out of the corner of her eye.
