Hot SEALs: A Mission of Love (A Hot SEALs / CSA Case Files Crossover) (Kindle Worlds)

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Author: Kennedy Layne
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to them. She’d had damned good reasons for keeping her baggage out of their lives and he didn’t get to close her out only knowing half the story. “It’s apparent you didn’t trust me enough to come to me in the first place. I don’t have to tell you how humiliating it was to hear that you’re being blackmailed from a mutual friend. I think—”
    “We’ll talk about this in private,” Julia said carefully, finally gaining some composure as her mind spun with solutions. She’d known all along that he would have been able to make all of this disappear had she gone to him immediately after receiving the extortion note. She’d chosen another route based on her own pride and wanting this swept under the rug before it could damage his reputation. She also didn’t want him using his position to take care of her problems, which in all likelihood would weaken his position in the administration. She wouldn’t apologize for that. She was a grown adult who could make her own decisions. Her fingers finally grasped her phone and she slipped it inside her purse, making sure she met his stare. He hid his emotions behind his hooded eyes, but it was the tic in his square jaw that told her he was beyond livid. He had this all wrong and he’d understand once she had a chance to tell him everything. “I’ll meet you back at my place since it’s closer.”
    “Your apartment is being electronically monitored.”
    Julia stilled her movements, grateful that she hadn’t stood up from the table quite yet. She was receiving one blow after another. Schultz leaned back in his chair and tilted his head as he studied her, giving the appearance that he was calm and collected. He was anything but. She wasn’t sure what he was looking for, but his stare caused a sliver of fear to invade the bubble of protection she thought she’d been surrounded in. She’d had everything under control five minutes ago and now everything was falling apart.
    “What do you mean…like it’s bugged?” Julia asked in a low voice, leaning in so that only he could hear her.
    “What I mean is that you’re in over your head. You’re dealing with a professional and it’s highly doubtful that all he wants is your money,” Schultz pointed out in a restrained tone. In fact, it was as if he were conducting business with a stranger and that scared her most of all. Julia needed to get him alone so that she could explain, but he continued to drive his point home. “Someone went to a lot of trouble to locate something that they could use against you. Do you have any idea who that might be? Is there even a remote chance that it is someone from your past?”
    Julia so didn’t want to have this conversation here and yet Schultz didn’t seem to be in any hurry to leave. She couldn’t stand the detached look on his face or the fact that he wasn’t focusing on the issue that needed to be addressed. The problem they had now was that he felt betrayed and that was the last thing she wanted him to think. But if talking about the actual extortion here at the table led to them going home to discuss their relationship, she was all for it. She set her purse down on the table and got down to business.
    “Schultz, did you even read the note? This has nothing to do with me. I’m a pawn,” Julia stressed, needing him to understand that this went beyond her. This was what she’d hired Jon to take care of. “They’re using me to get to you and I wasn’t about to let that happen.”
    Julia could see that Schultz wanted to respond to that, but he stopped himself just shy of getting the words out. She wanted him to counter her just once without thinking. He was always too in control over everything in his life, especially in the bedroom, but he had to see that there wasn’t a way to talk about her blackmailer without bringing up their personal lives.
    “You’re assuming it’s about me because the blackmailer stated in his note that he will release those photos of you

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