Seduced in New York (Sexy Spy Series, No. 1) Read Free Page A

certain that he wasn’t meeting Mrs. Kolovos here, so what was he doing?
    I had an uneasy suspicion that it was something to do with Troy . Was he double-crossing Mrs. Kolovos and giving the list to Troy ? But what would he want with the list?
    As I stood there trying to put all the pieces of the puzzle together, I felt that someone was watching me. I casually glanced around. Everyone was looking in another direction, everyone except Kevin.
    As my eyes met his, he turned and raced away. I sprinted after him. The two of us ran down one path and up another as we both tried to outsmart the other.
    If this had been my first mission, then I would have lost him. But I had learnt a lot of things on my various missions, one of them being to never give up, but to give the appearance of giving up.
    So, as Kevin tore around the next corner, I slowed down and weaved in amongst the bushes. It was clear to me that both of us were fit, fit enough to run each other to the ground. And that isn’t what I needed. I didn’t have the time for that so I had to make Kevin believe that I was giving up.
    Peering through the bushes, I saw him turn and gaze around. Once he couldn’t see any sign of me, I saw his shoulders relax and he walked off.
    Spying a coat that was lying next to an empty picnic basket, I picked it up, not bothering to ask the owner who was engaged in a fiery makeout session with his girlfriend. Slipping it on, I hoped that it would be enough to make me look different.
    I took off my cap and threw it in one of the many bins as I continued the pursuit after Kevin. I glanced at my watch. I still had a little time to spare, but not much. As I followed Kevin at a distance, I realized that he was making his way back to the bridge. This contact must be important.
    I knew that Kevin wasn’t a regular spy, but I’m sure that he would have been told by his superiors that, if you’ve been made, to never go back to the same spot. Yet, this is what he was doing. Who could be so important?
    This time, I wanted an answer. Staying back as far as possible, I leaned against a tree and gazed at the bridge in the distance. I would only move in once I ascertained that he had met his contact.
    Minutes passed without incident and then, there they were. Initially, I had been wondering if Troy was the one whom Kevin was meeting, but unless he was a woman, this wasn’t the case.
    As the woman, a busty redhead with bright red lipstick, started talking to Kevin, I wandered closer. Dressed in a very short blue dress and wearing stilettos, she looked out of place in Central Park . As she put her hands around the person I was going to kill, I realized was happening.
    She was his girlfriend. Whether or not she was using him, just like I had used him, was another question, but the way the redhead looked into the man’s eyes, I was pretty sure that she was deeply in love with him.
    Once I was close enough to overhear their conversation, I stopped and put my head down. The two of them were whispering. I heard the words Hawaii , honeymoon, and money.
    It dawned on me like a stack of bricks. This must have been why Kevin was selling the list. He was in love with this woman. It all made sense now. Initially, when Mr. Smith had told me that Kevin Lord, a man who had graduated Harvard University with honors in two separate fields and who had started his own million dollar business empire was selling out, it didn’t make sense. But now it did. It was all because of the redhead.
    But how did Troy fit into all of this? Maybe he had heard about this list that Kevin was shopping around and wanted a piece of it. After all, the list contained ten names. I didn’t know who the people were, only Mr. Smith was privy to that information, but they were important.
    I didn’t think that Kevin needed the money, so there had to be something else. Or maybe Mr. Smith was right when he suggested that the company that Kevin had founded all those years ago was on the verge of