Guarding Grace
Rebecca York
MILLS & BOON
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Table of Contents
Award-winning, bestselling novelist Ruth Glick, who writes as REBECCA YORK, is the author of more than one hundred books, including her popular 43 Light Street series for Mills & Boon® Intrigue. Ruth says she has the best job in the world. Not only does she get paid for telling stories, she’s also the author of twelve cookbooks. Ruth and her husband, Norman, travel frequently, researching locales for her novels and searching out new dishes for her cookbooks.
The assassin never left murder to chance.
Night was the best time for the mission he had taken on, which was lucky for the working stiffs who toiled at Bio Gens Labs.
Only one car was in the parking lot, a silver Mercedes occupying the choice reserved spot beside the employees’ entrance.
With his headlights off, he slid in beside it and cut the engine of his rental car.
He had stowed his luggage in the trunk and started the evening with a nice prime-rib dinner at Ruth’s Chris Steak House in downtown Bethesda, Maryland, only ten miles away. Soon he would leave his calling card in this long low building and speed away. Some men would have been too nervous to eat before a big job. He found a full belly added to his feeling of satisfaction.
This was his fourth carefully calculated hit—and the most important. Massachusetts, California and New Jersey had just been rehearsals. With the widely separate locations, nobody had connected the dots. No one knew who had struck a federal judge, a U.S. congressman and a movie producer. Nobody knew who was next. Or why.
Gym bag in hand, he walked through the misty evening to the lab’s delivery entrance. He had clocked the schedule of the security staff who patrolled the grounds of the industrial park. Nobody would be back along this route for twenty minutes.
The lab had a silent alarm, of course. But that didn’t mean squat. By the time the Montgomery County Police Department responded, the place would be history.
After setting down his bag, he got out his stainless-steel lock picks. “The Navy SEALs’ choice,” according to the catalog from which he’d purchased the set.
He’d put in hundreds of hours of practice with these implements.
One pin at a time. Apply force. Find the pin that is binding the post and push it up.
Once inside, he set his gym bag on the receptionist’s desk and removed the explosive device. It was a
