The Unseen Enemy Series

Chapter 99

Two hours later, Dallas’ cell buzzed as he was rinsing out his coffee cup. He picked it up.

“What’s up, Selena?”

“f**k all, boss.” She sounded pissed off.

“Nothing come up? All night?”

“Nothing. The canvas was a total wash, and Howard and Jill and the gang can’t find any evidence of any kind of external tampering to the security system. Just – just nothing, Dallas. Nothing to explain how the system was hacked from outside.”

He was silent. If his team wasn’t able to find anything, then there was simply nothing to find. That meant that he and Mark were probably right.

“Selena,” he said quietly. “I need you to do two things for me, OK?”

“Name them.”

“First, I need you to tell Mark that the team needs to refocus. They need to check and see if our theory holds…. he’ll know what I mean.”

Selena paused. “OK.”

“Second, can you please bring Olivia some clothes and a coat? We hustled her out of there so fast last night, the woman doesn’t have anything to wear except what she was standing up in.”

“No problem.”

“Thanks.” He exhaled, hard. “Any word on where Castell was last night?”

“Yeah, that’s the other thing that’s come to nothing – nobody can find the guy.”

Dallas closed his eyes. “What?”

“According to Nigel, Abe just fell off the planet a couple of days ago. They had an argument, apparently, and that was it. His phone’s been switched off, his boss says he hasn’t been at work, no activity on his credit cards or bank accounts.”

Because he may be at Olivia’s, hiding out, and now he’s stuck there with no escape. He may well be freaking out… and that makes him far more dangerous to everyone around him. s**t.

“Does Mark know?” Dallas asked.

“I was about to call him.”

“OK. Do that right now, please. And tell him to send Sully to Castell’s apartment to see if he’s there. If Castell doesn’t answer the door, Sully needs to get in and take a look around. You hear me?”

She paused again. “You mean… get in however he has to?”

“Yeah. Grease the superintendent’s palm, pick the lock, kick the f*****g door down, I don’t give a good goddamn. Just get in.”

She was silent. In her time working for Dallas, he’d never made such a request before, always working with the police and waiting for them to get search warrants.

Dallas knows something more, and whatever the f**k it is, it’s serious.

“Selena? If you’re not comfortable with passing this on, say so…”

“No, boss. I’m fine with it. I know you’re telling Sully to do this for a good reason.”

“I am.” He ran his hands through his hair. “And keep me in the loop, OK? Anything happens, Selena, you tell me. OK?”

“Yes. OK.”

He disconnected and walked down the hallway to his bedroom again. He looked in at Olivia, saw that she was still sleeping. Right away, he was reminded of that first morning that she’d stayed with him, when he’d had the wild urge to crawl into bed beside her.

When he’d longed to kiss her awake and make love to her.

Well, now you can, man. What are you waiting for?

He shed his clothes and slipped into bed behind her. He pulled her naked body to his hard chest, and she moaned as she felt his erection pressing into the curve of her ass. She pushed back against it and he nibbled on her neck.

“Open those gorgeous eyes, baby,” he whispered. “I want to kiss you.”

Olivia smiled. “I hope you want to do more than that…”

Dallas ran his hands down her back, over her butt, between her legs. She gasped as his fingers found her p***y and started stroking her from behind. He kissed her shoulders, felt her body heat up under his hands and mouth.

Gently, he turned her over to face him. Dallas’ fingers returned to her lower lips, stroking and pressing. Her back arched.

“You know what I want to do to you?” he asked.

She shook her head and grinned. “Not specifically, but I can probably guess the generalities.”

“Well, ain’t you sassy, darlin’?” he drawled at her.

“Sometimes.”

“Huh.”

“So, what do you want to do to me?” she reminded him.

“I want to taste you properly.” He lowered his head and nipped her mouth. “Last night I just got a teaser… but I want to put my lips on your p***y, Olivia. Make you come like that.”

She gasped. “Oh, God. I want you to.”