Total pages in book: 144
Estimated words: 135382 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 677(@200wpm)___ 542(@250wpm)___ 451(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 135382 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 677(@200wpm)___ 542(@250wpm)___ 451(@300wpm)
Kay knew that a person could change. She knew it better than anyone.
He turned so his face was staring up at her. “Do you really think so?”
So open and innocent. He was like a gorgeous manchild, and she felt a desperate need to protect him. “I know it.”
He sighed, seeming to settle. “I hope so.”
“What did Theo Taggart have to say about it? Or Robert?” After all, if anyone would know, it would be Theo or Robert. They had been held by Dr. McDonald, though she’d never heard either mention a second doctor.
“Theo said he’s never seen me before,” Tucker said. “Robert either, but who knows. There was a second site, one Big Tag doesn’t think Theo and Robert ever saw. What if I ran that site? What if I’m the one who did this to Jax and Sasha and Dante and Owen?”
“I don’t believe it for a second.” He was too sweet. It was his nature. She couldn’t see how simply erasing a person’s memory would change something so fundamental. No one as sweet as Tucker could do those things to another human being.
He sighed. “I pray you’re right. I don’t want to have been some crazy monster doctor. I like being me. I know that sounds stupid since I don’t know who me is, but I like it here. I like my brothers, and you’re the best sister anyone could want.”
Yep, that was what she got here. She was everyone’s sister or aunt. Not that she was truly attracted to any of the Lost Boys, but damn, couldn’t Damon hire a hottie who wasn’t certifiable?
“I’m glad, buddy.” She glanced up and saw Fain coming her way. He wasn’t alone. Damon was with him, and that gorgeous hunk of American snark Ian Taggart. She totally understood why her twin sister had been all over that while she’d been in the field.
Of course, now he was married to a woman Kay respected. Mostly because Charlotte Taggart was a woman who truly got what the “sisterhood” meant, but also for her assassin skills. Kay appreciated any woman who could murder a man with a pair of Louboutins.
“I think I’m about to get pulled into an impromptu meeting, buddy,” she said. “Why don’t you go and find Teresa? She was looking for someone to dance with.”
Tucker sat up quickly, straightening his shirt. “Really? Maybe they’ll play a slow song and I’ll be able to show her how good I am at rubbing myself on her. That’s what Big Tag says dancing is all about.”
Big Tag gave him a thumbs-up. “That’s exactly what it’s about. You go for it.”
Tucker scurried off, seeming to forget his ennui at possibly being an evil motherfucker in a past life. Kayla stood, putting a hand on her hips. “You are going to get that poor boy slapped.”
Tag shrugged. “It’s all one big learning process for him. You got a minute?”
“Sure, what’s up?”
“Fain would like to borrow you for a job,” Damon explained.
She hoped she managed to keep her face perfectly bland because inside she was dying a little. If the Agency was asking, then it had to be something down and dirty. If the Agency was asking her, it probably had something to do with her prior MSS contacts. She’d worked for years as a double agent, trained to take her twin sister’s place as a spy.
She’d lost her sister and sometimes she worried she’d almost lost her soul.
But still, if Damon wanted her to do something, she had to consider it. If her country needed her, she would have to go back into hell.
“What’s the gig?” That was good. Very normal, as if she wasn’t screaming on the inside.
Ezra looked down at her. “Do you know who Joshua Hunt is?”
She snorted a little. “Uhm, he’s only the hottest actor in the world right now. He’s starring in that new action movie—The Quick and The Enraged. I love that series.”
What she wasn’t about to admit was that she kind of had a supercrush on the man. He was tall, dark, and handsome. Right up her alley.
“I need you to go undercover as his bodyguard. I’ve already got the job lined up, but he doesn’t know the name of the new guard yet. This job would require you to stay close to him and go to many of the functions he would attend.” Ezra frowned as though thinking through how to say what he needed to.
He was hesitating and she didn’t understand it. He wanted her to go undercover as the hottest man in Hollywood’s bodyguard? The only thing that would have been better would have been to be asked to be his freaking fake fiancée, or anything that would get her in the man’s bed.
Although bodyguard was pretty hot. She could likely still seduce him.
So she would have to go to a bunch of hoity-toity parties in one of the most glamorous places in the world. “What’s the catch?”