Her True Match
X-Ops, #6
X-Ops, #6
Paige Tyler
ISBN: 9781492625926
Pubdate: March 7, 2017
Genre: Paranormal
FORCED TOGETHER
When feline shifter Dreya Clark is escorted from the police interrogation
by two secret agents, she thinks she’s dodged a bullet. That sexy detective
Braden Hayes caught her stealing red-handed. When she finds out what she has to
do to stay out of jail, suddenly she’s missing the hot cop with the piercing
gaze. She’s being recruited for her shifter abilities by the Department of
Covert Operations.
WILL DANGER RIP THEM
APART?
Braden has been chasing the smart-mouthed cat burglar for years. But when
Dreya’s taken away, he knows their game of cat and mouse has turned
deadly-serious. There’s no way he’ll let her go off alone. Fur flies and
temperatures flare as Braden realizes Dreya is much more than she appears.
Thrown together on a dangerous covert mission, this unlikely pair will have to
rely on each other to make it out alive.
“How do you know I wasn’t testing the security
system?” Dreya asked, her lips curving into a coy smile.
Braden sat across from the beautiful
thief in one of the burglary section’s interrogation rooms, working hard to
keep from smiling back at her. Even though he knew her record backward and
forward, he was still having a hell of a time maintaining a professional
detachment. He was good in the interrogation room, but Dreya was better.
She charmed, she flirted, and she controlled where she wanted the conversation
to go. Braden had already been forced to toss Mick out of the room. His
partner had come damn close to asking their suspect out on a date, even though
she was sitting at the table wearing a pair of handcuffs.
Though Braden had to admit she made the cuffs look good. Even now, she was
sitting at the table with her long, blond hair cascading around her
shoulders, talking animatedly with her hands as if the heavy stainless
steel cuffs were a fashion accessory. He wasn’t even sure when she’d gotten her
hair out of the braid it had been in before, but he had the crazy urge to
run his fingers through it. He resisted—barely. Dreya had been saying since
they’d brought her in that this was all a big misunderstanding and that
she could straighten this out if she could talk privately with the owner of the
art piece they seemed to think she’d stolen. Like that was going to
happen. Something told Braden that putting her in the same room with some rich
playboy would be an incredibly bad idea. All she had to do was bat those
hazel-green eyes at him a few times and tousle her hair with her fingers, and
the guy would agree with anything she said. Hell, the guy would probably
give her the silly blue balloon dog thing sitting on the table between them as
a gift.
“If we’re going to talk about security systems, Dreya, let’s start with how you
managed to climb the wall of that apartment on the south side of M
Street. Because I gotta tell you, that was damn impressive.”
He expected her to deny it had been
her—or beam with pride at the compliment—but her eyes widened in shock. For the
first time that night, there was fear on her face.
“You saw that?” She darted
a nervous glance at the one-way glass mirror to her left, the one Mick was
standing behind.
He nodded. “Sure did. In fact, we have
it all on video. The climb, the walk across the cable, the jump you made to the
balcony.”
On the other side of the table, her
face went pale. Shit, was she starting to hyperventilate?“How many people have seen the video?”
she demanded.
Braden frowned. Why the hell was a second-story thief worried about how many
cops had seen her display her talents? That made no sense.
“Just my partner and me,” he assured her. “But while the video is amazing, it
doesn’t explain how you were able to scale that wall. Were you using
something on your hands to get a grip? I searched your bag but didn’t find
anything.”
Dreya swallowed hard. In all of the
previous occasions he’d questioned her, she’d been confident and posed, but
suddenly it was like she’d been hit by lightning. She seemed off
balance…lost.
“You can’t let anyone else see the
video,” she said.
He shrugged. “That’s not really up to
me.”
She stared at her cuffed wrists, her
shoulders slumping in a defeat he hadn’t seen coming. “What if I confess?”
She said it so softly he wasn’t sure
he’d heard her correctly. “What?”
Dreya lifted her head to look at him,
that usual glimmer missing from her eyes now. “If I confess right now, will you
destroy the video?”
Braden hoped to hell his mouth wasn’t hanging
open. Being interrogated by the cops could make people say strange stuff, but
Dreya had to know that even with the evidence they had on her, a woman
with her background and clean record could likely get a case like this whittled
down from the standard five to seven to less than two years. Why would she
agree to a written confession? What the hell was on that video she was so
terrified of letting anyone see?
He knew he needed to be
careful, but right then it was hard to think of Dreya as the hardened criminal
he’d always believed. He was smart enough to know she wasn’t a saint, but there
was something going on here. She was so terrified she was on the verge of
tears.
The sudden aura of vulnerability had
his heart beating hard and fast. The urge to protect her from whatever was
freaking her out was impossible to ignore. Part of the reason he’d become
a cop was to help people in trouble, and Dreya definitely seemed to be in
trouble.
Paige Tyler is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling
author of sexy, romantic fiction. Paige writes books about hunky alpha males
and the kick-butt heroines they fall in love with. She lives with her very own
military hero (a.k.a. her husband) and their adorable dog on the beautiful Florida
coast. Visit www.paigetylertheauthor.com.
A Little Known Fact from
Her True Match . . .
If Trevor was unplanned, then the character of
Ashley was a complete shock. She’s actually based on a friend we’ve met many
times at the Lori Foster Get Together (RAGT). She thought it would be cool to
be a “bad guy” in one of the books, so we slipped her in there. She was
supposed to be a minor character, but she simply popped off the page every time
we saw her. She turned herself into a major character all by herself. She’s
unique, mesmerizing and, basically, insane. And yeah, she’s going to be in
future books.
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