Chapter 14

“So why did she give you orders to kill me instead of trapping me like the others?” Aden pressed.

“That’s exactly it. She doesn’t know what Ray is doing. He’s setting you up and she bought it.”

“Or they both know I won’t take getting manipulated like this and sent the one thing guaranteed to distract me from stopping them.”

“But Jasmine’s not…” He dropped the papers and turned to sit on the edge of the bed. “Do you know what you’re suggesting here? You’re suggesting that Jasmine kidnapped innocent people knowing they would die, and then sent me in here as baitso you couldn’t stop them. That’s insane.”

“Is it any more insane than sending in a male agent in skimpy drag and next to nowhere to hide a weapon? Argenti’s smarter than that.”

“Fuck this.” Darren jumped to his feet. “Fuck this. You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. You don’t know anything about Argenti and you don’t know Jasmine.”