Kiss the Enemy (Slye Temp) by Dianna Love Read Free Book Online Page B

Buckingham Palace? Now what?
    She leaned in and whispered, “If you think I’m offering twice, you’re wrong. I’m here for one reason and talking to you isn’t it. You’re wasting seconds that I don’t think Mr. D will be pleased about if he misses this one-time opportunity.”
    Her gaze traveled to a mirrored wall that picked up the bartender’s profile as he leaned down to study a laptop computer screen. He lifted his head to look around. His gaze stalled when he turned her way.
    She was the one running out of seconds and ideas.

 
    CHAPTER 6
     
    The best Nick could figure, Margaux must have mentally snapped to openly defy Sabrina. He’d have thought she had more natural survival instinct.
    Nick let his gaze drift over to Tanner, his partner in this fiasco, who had his arm propped on the door of the rental they’d picked up at San Francisco airport.
    “We just missed her and she was tough to recognize,” Tanner said to the cell phone he had on speaker.
    Nick smiled. He’d been the one to point Margaux out to Tanner, who hadn’t recognized her in a wig and a fourteen-carat dress that stopped just short of showing off her goods. Once Tanner sucked his tongue back into his head, he’d called Sabrina to report in.
    Sabrina muttered a curse. “Was Margaux alone?”
    “For now.”
    “What the hell does that mean?”
    He looked at his phone like the thing might jump up and bite his head off any minute, which was possible with Sabrina on the other end. He gave Nick a look that suggested it was his turn to take some shit.
    Nick sighed. “Margaux was decked out in a gold designer dress that just covered her ass and fuck-me heels to match, long blond wig, and a shawl that stopped at her waist. She walked into the Trigon Millenia Hotel like a woman ready to do business.”
    “Margaux would rather have her spleen taken out without anesthesia than wear a dress, much less heels. She’s going after somebody .”    Sabrina had been up for two days straight and it was starting to come through in her voice. “Nothing on the street here about any significant action going down in San Fran tonight. Haven’t heard back from our people on the west coast. You got any idea what might have set her off, Nick?”
    “Not really, but I’m not surprised. She just wants to nail the bastard.”
    “Don’t even try to justify her actions to me. Dingo, Josh, Tanner and I want to nail the CIA spook who sold us out in the UK two years ago, too, but I won’t tolerate those three going rogue any more than you, Ryder, or anyone else.”
    “What are you going to do about Margaux when we catch her?”  If Nick could find out what Margaux faced, maybe he could talk her off the ledge if the opportunity arose. He didn’t recommend what Margaux was doing, but he knew how demons drove a person and probably understood her better than the rest of the team did.
    His own demons rode his shoulders every day.
    “Tell you what, Nick. Get your hands on her and I’ll answer that.”
    Nick got the “don’t push me right now message” in Sabrina’s reply. I tried, Margaux.
    Sabrina added,“Do not let her walk past you two again.”
    Tanner’s face warped with a scowl. “If the tail you put on her at the airport here hadn’t lost her, we’d have her in hand by now.”
    A pause on the other end must have been Sabrina counting to hold her temper. Her voice gained a sharper edge. “If they were half as good as White Hawk or any of you that wouldn’t have happened, but I was stuck with using a contractor. Margaux must have found out something right after I left the apartment, because given more time to plan, I doubt even White Hawk could have tailed her as far as she did.”
    Nick couldn’t argue with that.
    Margaux probably thought she’d made it out of Atlanta without anyone finding out, but Sabrina had instructed the surveillance teams to sit tight if they realized Margaux was leaving her apartment. White Hawk had been positioned