Free Surrender to Temptation (Agent Lovers Series Book 1) by Harper Steen, Lesley Schuldt

monitor. “Immediately! That’s an order!”
    “By the way, boys, you might want to read our files a little closer next time. Then you’ll be better prepared for our issues with authority. That must be noted in there somewhere. Our boss should have mentioned that.”
    “Is that what you call it?” Jennifer threw Liz a curious glance. “’Issues with authority’?”
    “Just another way of saying we’re not team players. Why do you think they stuck you and me together of all people? Birds of a feather.” Liz gave a soft laugh and threw a second grenade into the bunker. Again, fragments flew by their ears.
    “Damn it, Agents Gibson and Langer! You’ve been given an order!” Gray moaned and glanced in Chris’s direction, as if he could somehow do something about it. Chris shrugged his shoulders, raised his eyebrows and made a helpless face.
    “Lt. Colonel Blackwood has given us an order,” Jennifer pointed out the obvious in a bored tone.
    “Really? Someone should have made it clear to him that we’re not very good about following orders when we’re out in the open.” She snickered. “That must be in our files too.”
    “One last time! Your order is: immediate retreat.” Chris repeated the order that Gray had already given repeatedly, forcing his voice to stay calm.
    “One last time,” said Liz. “Forget it!”
    Cautiously she and Jennifer approached the entry again, peered inside and looked down the stairs. Immediately, more men who were armed to the teeth emerged in the smoke-filled corridor before them.
    This can’t be happening.
Liz swore to herself. The grenades should have taken care of most of their adversaries.
    “These guys are tough. At this rate, we’ll run out of ammunition before we run out of them.” Jennifer’s teeth were clenched and her expression pinched. Liz knew that she was right.
    “What do you think of
Plan S
?” She gave Jennifer an encouraging look. Jennifer rolled her eyes first and made a not very enthusiastic face, but nodded in agreement.
    “Retreat already, damn it! You don’t have a chance! And what is
Plan S
anyway?” Gray demanded, although afraid to find out the answer. Slowly he felt himself being overcome with despair. By completely ignoring his and Chris’s orders, they were in all likelihood signing their own death warrants. These two were even worse than the greenhorns he and Chris had worked with the last time. He’d never lost a man before!
    “I’ll explain it to you later.”
    “If you don’t turn back, there won’t be a later. Get out of there now!”
    When Liz and Jennifer started to move backwards slowly, he felt a glimpse of hope. Maybe they would get out of there alive after all. Again and again, Liz and Jennifer shot bursts of gunfire in the direction of the bunker—he assumed, to prevent their attackers from pursuing them.
    “If we put up less of a fight, it will look suspicious,” said Jennifer.
    “Maybe they’re just being cautious because they want to make sure we’re not luring them into a trap.” Liz shrugged and threw an irritated look at her partner.
    Gray and Chris grew pale as they listened to the women’s banter. They watched the monitor in stunned amazement as the first men came through the bunker door.
    “Hurry up! Retreat!” Gray ordered again, but his stern words were ignored.
    Once ten armed adversaries were standing in front of them, Liz gave Jennifer a brief sign. Simultaneously, they threw down their weapons, dropped to their knees and laced their fingers behind their heads. They stayed in this position and with emotionless faces watched the men cautiously approach.
    “Get ready for a headache!” mumbled Liz, keeping her eye on the men.
    “You’re paying for the aspirin.”
    “No problem. I’ll give you a whole pharmacy.”
    “Deal!” Jennifer said, and then they fell silent.
    The men surrounded them, pushed them violently to the ground and held them there by force. Their backpacks were ripped off them