Table Of ContentTable of Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
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Dedication
For everyone who asked for more.
Acknowledgments
Thanks must go out to Ginerva, Rae Isha, and Laura Iskra for their invaluable
help and advice regarding the Italian language. Ty is not the only one who
doesn’t speak Italian!
And to Polly West for keeping an eye out for details when she took her well-
deserved cruise and then relaying them to those of us still on land.
Chapter 1
“Hey, Freddy, Scott, you got to check this out,” Special Agent Michelle Clancy
said as she trotted into the free weights room of the FBI’s Baltimore field office
gym.
“Busy,” Special Agent Fred Perrimore grunted as he strained with the
barbell. His biceps bulged as he pressed up; sweat dotted the black skin along his
closely shaved hairline.
“Believe me. It’s worth it,” Clancy told them in a singsong voice. Her
ponytail bobbed along behind her as she bounced on the tips of her toes
excitedly, the bright red hair clashing with her freckles and the flushed pink of
her face.
Special Agent Scott Alston looked up from where he stood spotting
Perrimore. “What is it?” he asked impatiently. Clancy was too easily worked up
for a five-year veteran, and Perrimore always took too much weight. If he
dropped the bar when Alston wasn’t paying attention, there would be shit tons of
paperwork to fill out.
“Garrett and Grady are beating the shit out of each other,” Clancy answered
with something resembling relish.
“So?” Perrimore asked in a strained voice. His large arms trembled with the
effort to raise the bar and plates. “They’re always doing that.”
He was right, but Alston’s eyes widened with the news. He began to grin
even as he helped pull the bar up and hastily settle it into its cradle with a clank.
No way did he want to miss this.
“What the hell, man?” Perrimore complained as he sat up and gave them
both an exasperated glare. Alston was already following Clancy out of the room
when he heard Perrimore protest, “But what’s the big deal? They’re always
doing that!”
Clancy and Alston emerged into the main gym, where several small groups
of agents had dropped what they were doing to gather around the center boxing
ring. As Clancy and Alston hurried to watch through the ropes, a chorus of
groans and cheers went up as one of the men slammed to the mat with an impact
that actually shook the entire ring.
“Get up, Grady! You can’t take that shit from him!” one of the watching
agents called out in amusement.
Alston shook his head and folded his arms, listening as someone nearby
filled him in on the events that had led up to this.
The fight had started out as a simple sparring match between partners.
Nothing special. Nothing for anyone to pay much attention to. Several people in
the main gym had been initially impressed that the newly arrived Special Agent
Zane Garrett could hold his own with his temperamental, extremely well-trained
partner, but that was about it. Today’s event appeared to have started as a
training session, with Ty giving Zane pointers and lessons in some particular
technique.
If Zane was trying to learn from Ty, he’d gone to the right place.
Unfortunately, Ty wasn’t exactly mentor material. Everyone in the Baltimore
office knew that Special Agent Ty Grady was good for one thing in the ring:
embarrassing the hotshot rookies. If you really wanted to spar with him, you had
to handicap him somehow. Alston personally preferred the knee-to-the-nuts-in-
the-locker-room-prior-to-sparring method. That usually evened up the odds a
little. Usually.
Heads began to turn when the gentle sparring, quips, and teasing between
partners had become slightly more heated and the jabs had become true punches
that caused the combatants to stagger back with each blow. It was common
knowledge how difficult it was to work with Ty Grady. It had come as no
surprise to anyone when Zane Garrett arrived that they were always at each
other’s throats, especially when it turned out Zane was about as headstrong as
