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Authors: Rie Warren
Walker (Bad Boys of X-Ops #1) (28 page)
I frowned. “There’s plot in there.”
They stared at me.
“I need a fucking option-out of this gig, just in case.” Grabbing back the book, I slammed it closed.
Leaning forward, Walker pulled his black braid over his shoulder. “So, if you’re so into this romance shit, you ever read anything by Nicky Love?”
“It’s not romance. It’s a thriller. Suspense.”
“Based on our missions.” Storm still looked unconvinced.
“You know Nicky Love?” Bane peered at Walker, ignoring the rest of us.
“Yeah. Married into Retribution MC. Met him a couple times. And his wife.”
“
Huh.
Cool. That’s some good paranormal romance right there.” Bane nodded.
What in the fuck?
I could barely believe these dudes knew how to read weapons manuals full of illustrations and diagrams let alone full-length books.
“
Should we talk about the real problem before Blaize turns up and busts our nads?” I changed the subject and closed the fucking book on
my book
.
Shuffling his chair forward, Walker stared around the table, suddenly deadly serious. “Yeah. Let’s do that.” He rapped his knuckles on the metal surface. “Anyone got any ideas about who leaked Jade’s and my locations over and over again?”
An air of suspicion hung in the air, thick as cloud cover.
“You suspect one of us?” Storm sneered.
“Actually, I don’t. If I did, the culprit would already be dead.” Walker’s lethal smile was just this side of serial killer.
What a pleasant bunch we were.
“What I can’t figure out,” he continued, “is how we got found out first in Mt. Pleasant, then Hell’s Kitchen, and the reservation if one of you didn’t talk.”
I filtered through all the intel from his off-the-rails mission and came up with nada. The other guys looked blank, too.
“There’s gotta be something we’re missing,” Walker insisted.
“Okay. Who did you contact while you were on the run?” I asked.
“No one but you fuckers. Jade only got in touch with her people once we made South Dakota.” He winced as if that was a painful memory. “Hunter those two times, but he’s as solid as they come, and we’ve already been over that.”
He rubbed a hand across his jaw. Then he sat up like a steel rod had been shoved up his ass.
“Blaize. I’d been avoiding talking to her because I didn’t want to listen to her bitching and moaning about the botched mission, but I got distracted. I answered one of her calls that second day in Hell’s Kitchen.”
It was Storm’s turn to get up in arms. He stood to a towering height, punching his finger toward Walker. “Blaize would never put any of us in danger. Don’t be a jackass.”
“Whoa there, Kemosabe.” Walker held up his hands. “I’m not saying I blame Blaize. But she’s the only other person I contacted.”
My jaw clamped down. “What about the new kid on the block.”
“Baby Spy? The chick with the janky hair?” Walker scowled.
“I like her hair,” Bane mutter-muttered.
“She might be new, but she ain’t too stupid to live or she wouldn’t have even been recruited,” Walker said.
Storm reared his chair back onto two legs. “Baby Spy,
huh
?” He rubbed a hand across his chest, adopting his Thinking Man’s pose. “She’s Blaize’s protégé. She was monitoring coms during your mission.”
“Jesus Christ. Really?” Walker looked none too pleased by the idea.
Couldn’t say I blamed him. It was one thing to have your op compromised by outside forces. It was an entirely different beast to think one of your own crew was leaking insider information.
“Baby Spy,” Bane muttered with a nod, his big biceps bulging as he planted his forearms on the table.
It was probably the first time he and Storm had ever agreed on anything.
“Talk about selling us out.” Pressing his lips together, Walker looked like someone had stolen his favorite blasting caps.
“Baby Spy?” a feminine voice asked.
Bad Boys of X-Ops
Four novels, spring/summer 2016
Walker,
Book One
Justice,
Book Two
Storm, Book Three
Bane, Book Four
Bad Boys of Retribution MC
Complete series—Carolina Bad Boys spinoff
Hunter,
Book One
Kinkaid,
Book Two
Bo,
Book Three
Coletrane,
Book Four
Carolina Bad Boys—the original Bad Boys
Ongoing series
Stone,
Book One
Ride, the novella from within Stone,
Book 1.5
Love,
Book Two
Steele,
Book Three
Chrome,
Book Four
Lowcountry Heat
Sugar Daddy,
Book One
Don’t Tell Series
Complete series
In His Command,
Book One
On Her Watch,
Book Two
Under His Guard,
Book Three
In His Sights, novella,
Standalone
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Jingle Bell Rock,
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Heart Beats,
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In His Heart,
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Well it’s about time Walker got his story, right? Hey, don’t blame me. I can’t keep up with all these dudes!
As always, I had a ton of help making this happen. Gilly Wright of Gilly Wright's Red Pen is my editor-at-large and my helpmeet through this entire process. Joelle Mendes is my rockstar PA! Huge kisses and mega-thanks to Christine Cox, April Gasaway, and Lisa Pinney. These three women do the impossible. And by that I mean they read through my very first rough (really rough) drafts and add their invaluable insight. Thanks to Layla Gioe for her international assistance.
Friends, family, my Street Team! Facebookers, bloggers, readers, reviewers, and folks who recommend my books to their friends . . . I’m still stunned and awed by the support you’ve given me time and again. Thanks so much for joining me on this awesome journey!
I think I probably better get back to work now, huh? Don’t forget . . . three more X-Ops books coming this spring/summer, and of course plenty of filthy-dirty-hottie Carolina Bad Boys on the way, too.
Rie is the badass, sassafras author of
Sugar Daddy
and the
Don’t Tell
series—a breakthrough trilogy that crossed traditional publishing boundaries beginning with
In His Command
. Her latest endeavors include the
Carolina Bad Boys
, a fun, hot, and southern-sexy series.
A Yankee transplant who has traveled the world, Rie started out a writer—causing her college professor to blush over her erotic poetry without one ounce of shame. Not much has changed. She swapped pen for paintbrushes and followed her other love during her twenties. From art school to marriage to children and many a wild and wonderful journey in between, Rie has come home to her calling. Her work has been called
edgy
,
daring
, and
some of the sexiest smut around
.
You can connect with Rie via the social media hangouts listed on her website
http://www.riewarren.com
.