Lethal Affairs

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Author: Kim Baldwin
Tags: Fiction, Suspense, Romance, Contemporary, Lesbian
rest of his staff had gone home, he was still in his plush Capitol Hill office, tying up loose ends.
When CNN interrupted its regular broadcast with breaking news of the Guerrero assassination, he turned up the volume to listen but gave it only marginal attention.
Only when he received a phone call from EOO Chief Montgomery Pierce while soaking in his bathtub at home two hours later did he begin to realize his entire political future might hinge on Guerrero’s misfortune.
He was already upset with the EOO for their increasingly outrageous demands. Joanne Grant, the other Organization chief he dealt with, had called earlier in the week, asking for sensitive information regarding the upcoming visit of a Chinese diplomatic delegation.
“I don’t have the China info yet,” he told Pierce after he identified himself. “It’s going to take some time.”
“I’m not calling about that,” Pierce said. “Miami police have a hotel security tape of the Guerrero assassination. We need you to make it disappear. Tonight, before they get it to their lab for analysis. And copies, if there are any.”
“Are you insane?” He sat up so abruptly water sloshed over the side of the tub and onto the mat. “Do you know what you’re asking? I can’t do that. I won’t do that. Don’t you have people for such things?”
“Yes,” Pierce said patiently. “People like you.”
He forced himself to bite back a response he might regret. “How do you expect me to do this without jeopardizing myself?”
“I don’t know, and I don’t care,” Pierce said. “Make it happen. Soon.”
The line went dead.
Terrence cursed as he flipped the cell phone closed. His quiet peace had disappeared. He got out of the tub and threw on a plush burgundy robe, cinching the belt so tight in his aggravation he had to immediately loosen it. Dripping water onto the carpet, he padded in bare feet down the hall to the bedroom, where his wife Diana, a blond former Miss Connecticut, was reading in bed. “I have some things to attend to, honey. Don’t wait up,” he told her from the doorway, gracing her with the perfect, boyish grin cosmetic dentistry had provided him.
They lived with their six-year-old twin boys, Andrew and Austin, in a stately Tudor-style mansion in suburban Virginia, a seven-thousandsquare-foot behemoth that boasted six bedrooms, five baths, a pool, sauna, fitness room, and other luxuries. But Terrence spent nearly all his time in one spacious, masculine room on the second floor—his private domain, part office, part den. In addition to his desk and books, it featured a giant plasma TV, cozy fireplace, well-stocked bar, and comfy leather couch long enough to accommodate his six-foot, oneinch height when he needed a quick nap. The windows along one wall provided him a view of his landscaped, terraced gardens.
Flipping on the TV to CNN, he poured himself a whiskey while he considered how to satisfy Pierce’s demand. The network soon aired its next update on the Guerrero matter.
“Miami’s police chief has confirmed a hotel security camera captured the assassination this evening of Cuban Information Minister Juan Carlos Guerrero,” the news anchor reported. “Chief Marcus Thompson says the tape of the shootings and evidence gathered at the scene indicates the murders were the result of a well-orchestrated plot by two or more persons—a still-unidentified man, found dead at the scene, and a woman who escaped through an air duct into the hotel. Thompson says the female suspect did the actual shootings. The male suspect was reportedly killed by one of Guerrero’s men. There’s no word yet on whether the tape of the incident will be made available to news organizations.”
Terrence knew from personal experience that Pierce had a welltrained cadre of female operatives. He should have realized it was an Organization hit.
Pierce had asked him for a lot of favors, but never anything so risky. However, this trend had recently become his biggest
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