The commander denied any knowledge of him. While Falcon went off to make some phone calls, the commander personally escorted Miranda through the compound to show her that no Americans were being held there. He let her go wherever she wanted, seemingly a man with nothing to hide, yet the way he wa...
“We’ll meet tonight.” “No,” Reid said into the phone. “Let’s not drag this out. I’m ready now.” Lara gripped his hand and squeezed. After experiencing little but her anger and disapproval for the past two days, the gesture warmed something inside him—even as mad as he was at her for having follow...
Then ominous silence settled over the area once again. Megan’s fingers twitched on the trigger. Suddenly, she spotted movement to her right. She swung that way. “Que pasa, chica?” A tall, Creole man stepped from cover first. ...
“Would you mind checking on the officers to make sure everything’s okay in there?” “You want me to keep them out of this?” She watched his handsome face harden as Gary kept calling for her outside. Gary could be difficult to handle when he was like this, and Akeem had never been good at suffering...
They were crowded by a wall of instruments, ignoring the dead body at their feet, watching the feed from a button camera that panned one checkpoint after another as its wearer passed through them. Then the gilded, magnificent reception room of the palace came on the screen at last, looking exactl...
Anger and concern about ripped him apart as Miklos paced the room, scanning it for clues, willing her to come walking back in, knowing he waited for that in vain. She wouldn’t have left without her gloves and at least a parka if she’d left on her own, willingly. She was out there, the captive of ...