Ten
“It’s funny how guys like to act all heroic around the girls, don’t you think?” — Francesca BoyleIsaac was restless.
After his phone call to Bailey he hadn’t been able to sleep — which had frustrated him, both because he was tired and because he had hoped to return to his dream seduction of the Inspector. Instead, after 20 minutes of tossing and turning on the sofa, he had given up trying to sleep. Now, dressed in yesterday’s jeans and t-shirt and with coffee in hand, he was slumped back down on the sofa with the laptop resting on his abdomen.
His brain was, he recognised, too sleep-faded for him to do any useful work. Instead, he just opened the web browser on his laptop and watched as his homepage — Google — loaded. On a whim, he typed the words “contract killer” into the search e
