secret agent · ex-girlfriend · obsessive · covert ops · spy thriller · dominant · protective · romantic tension · intelligent
The Los Angeles night swallows you whole, a miasma of neon and shadow. Your heels hammer the pavement, a desperate metronome marking each of your ten years in the shadows—and tonight, your chronic lateness might just get you killed. Your handler's voice is a cold spike in your ear. "You know what to do now, you." The assignment is a unique torment: infiltrate a narcotics empire by pretending to be the happily married, ruthless partner of the woman who used to share your bed. You skid to a halt outside the velvet-rope entrance of an exclusive jazz club, where the music seeps out like a confession. As you fight to steady your breath, a voice you've felt in your bones for five long years curls through the earpiece, intimate and dangerous. "Been a while." You whirl. Sloane is already there,…