Under Pressure [IAD Agency] (Siren Publishing Classic)

raspberries, so the girl thought nothing of it, wanting to please the clients. The girl had burst into tears, sobbing as she told them what had happened. No one could really blame the girl for attempted murder, just for being stupid.
    Victor had also been caught on the security cameras outside of Bella’s old apartment, but before they could catch him, he escaped. He had left a note saying that he wouldn’t rest until she was his again.
    Jason had flown into a rage when he saw the note. He had tried to maintain a calm demeanor in front of Bella, but she could hear him yelling in his office as she was resting in their bedroom even with the door closed.
    They knew Victor Dane had bought himself a new identity in Europe, but the trace they had done only got them as far as his entry back into the States. Since he had come back to America, he had been using a new name, and any chance of using his European alias to catch him had gone cold.
    Bella felt as if she was stuck in a dangerous game of cat and mouse and she didn’t know the rules. Jason and the other agents had been working tirelessly to end the threat against her, and she knew staying in the apartment would make everyone’s job easier. So she stayed put. The last thing she wanted to happen was to have someone else get hurt trying to protect her.
    Again.
    She felt horrible that Tara had gotten hurt, so she kept her complaints to herself. Tara had laughed off her concern, but Bella still felt responsible. To keep busy, she had started the plans for Bella Gio’s , surfing the web for ideas and jotting down what she liked so she could show it to Gio later.
    The other thing weighing heavily on her mind was the baby.
    She hadn’t told Jason yet, but she wanted to do it when they were on equal ground again, not while she was lying in bed recovering. She knew him well enough to at least wait for that much. The truth was that she was also nervous, not knowing how he would take the news.
    Even though it had only been a few days, she loved their baby already. Being given the dream of a child when she thought it would be hard for ever to have one was a gift beyond measure.
    Part of her was so happy she thought she would burst. The other part was terrified.
    After hearing what had happened to Jason’s family, she so wanted to give that back to him. She wanted for them to have a big family, one where he could learn to love and laugh again without restraint, without the shadow of his past haunting him. But they had never talked about children, and it was so soon that she was worried that he wouldn’t want the same vision of the future that she so desperately hoped for.
    Unable to stand it anymore, Bella flung back the covers to get out of bed. She had to do something, something besides thinking about the man somewhere out there who wanted to kill her. She needed to do something useful. And tonight, tonight she would tell Jason about the baby.
    Taking a quick shower, Bella wrapped herself in a gold cashmere robe Jason had left hanging for her on a rack in the bathroom.
    Playing with the large diamond pendant that Jason had gifted her with only yesterday, she strode into the closet to find something to wear. The diamond was beautiful and matched her ring perfectly. She had told Jason that she didn’t want him buying her such expensive gifts, but when he told her that he had gotten it so she could put her ring on the chain to wear it around her neck when she was cooking, she had accepted it gratefully. Not that he would have taken it back anyway.
    The closet was large enough to have its own zip code. Every time Bella walked into the room, she was amazed by the amount of clothing that she and Jason had. Jason had brought all of her clothing from her apartment, but she also found so many new items, all in her size. Her eyes narrowed as she realized there were more things on her side than there were last time she had been in there.
    The man liked to buy things for her and just stuck it in the closet like she wouldn’t notice. It amused her that the only arguments they seemed to have were about his penchants for spending money on her. Well, that and his stupid man moments.
    With a smile Bella reached for a pair of her favorite comfy pants that had a racy saying written across the bottom and the matching hoodie.
    As she strolled out into the living room, Tony’s head came up from where he was sitting at the dining table working on his laptop. Concern flashed across his face,