"I told them I knew the location of the richest treasure in the world."
She grinned. "That would work. Nice job." She stood and leaned across the map table. The palms of her hands now lay flat on the rough wood. I preferred my version, but if it works, why not?
She gazed into his eyes, and her heart began to beat faster. I think I'm falling for this guy. She didn't want to, but she couldn't help herself. Pete had saved her life. He was her kind of man. And he was sexy, which certainly didn't hurt.
She cleared her throat. "Then there's the matter of the X-Factor bomb." She turned away to scan the room. "Do you know where it is?"
"Huh, when I realized my boss was going to liquidate me, I was seriously pissed off, so I threw it overboard."
Spies loved to use words like liquidate. It mean
