Agent E2: Aidan (Superhero Romance) (The D.I.R.E. Agency) Read Online Free PDF Page A

the gun battle that had taken place in the back of the hospital. Considering the number of people involved, Mitchell had performed a damned miracle. Then again, D.I.R.E. carried off miracles well.
    He smothered a yawn. Sleep had been non-existent since it all happened. Dar couldn’t seem to get the image of his father falling to the ground out of his head. When he closed his eyes, the scene played over and over in his mind like a bad play, the guilt and turmoil eating at his chest until he felt he had no heart left. The blood, Kate’s scream, his father’s pale face…
    He shook his head to clear it. Cassandra would hate him.
    His sister was in for a world of shock. Their father’s condition, Dar’s part in the shooting, her new sister.
    Kate.
    He didn’t trust her. From what he’d been told, she hadn’t left his father’s side since the shooting. What the hell was that all about? She had dumped him for another man. Now, all was supposed to be forgiven because he could die, and she confessed Rachel was his daughter?
    When Kate walked into the room yesterday, Robert Naylor acted entranced. After twenty-five years, he still wanted her and had even taken a freaking bullet for her.
    Dar now understood why his father hated Jim Monroe so much.
    “Let’s go, Naylor.”
    Aidan Monroe entered the room. That feeling in Dar’s gut intensified. The agent carried a palpable energy about him, an electricity that hummed and sizzled in the air. He wore some kind of gloves on his hands, his forearms covered in bands like the one Jacobs wore. Could he disappear, too?
    “Well, if it isn’t the spawn of Monroe, himself. Or, should I say Frankenstein?”
    His teeth clenched, Monroe unlocked the cuff at Dar’s foot. “Don’t screw with me today, Naylor. It wouldn’t take much for me to kill you.”
    Dar sat up as Aidan worked on his handcuff. Dar definitely believed every word Monroe said. Anger, or maybe frustration, radiated off of him like sunrays. Dar knew when to play it safe and when to go for it, and until he learned more about these super powers the D.I.R.E. agents carried, he would follow orders. He had to do it for Cassandra and his father.
    Aidan cuffed Dar to his wrist. The hair on his arm stood on end. Aidan led him out into the fourth floor corridor.
    “Where are we going?”
    “To see your sister.”
    Dar stumbled a step. No, not Cassandra. If anyone was innocent in all of this, it was her. He and his father had kept her out of the danger for a reason. She meant the world to both of them.
    “Where?”
    Turning a corner, Monroe shoved open the first door on the right. His sister sat at a table in the middle of the room, Mitchell Jacobs across from her. Tristan stood against the wall – wearing his shirt?
    Hell, they’d set her up. No wonder his gut had been going spastic.
    Cass’s face lit up when she saw him. Rising to her feet, she rushed to Dar and threw her arms around his waist. Not exactly what he would recommend in this situation, but then again, she was Cassandra. A woman who wore her heart on her sleeve.
    Tristan escorted Cassandra to her chair. Once she sat, he cuffed her wrist to his and pulled up a chair beside her. She gave him a fierce frown.
    Dar smiled for the first time in days.
    He and Monroe sat in two chairs against the wall adjacent to the table. Mitchell would play their safety against one another. At this point in time, Dar knew it wouldn’t take much for him to cave. He had already caused the probable death of his father. He couldn’t live with his twin’s death on his hands, too.
    Mitchell took a deep breath. “If the two of you cooperate, we’ll allow you time alone and give you an update on your father. If not, we’ll make the two of you disappear. Bottom line.”
    Cassandra didn’t move a muscle. However, the rapid pulse at the base of her neck gave her away.
    She had never faced a situation where death proved a serious threat. He hated these bastards for doing this to