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the hard curves of his body. Damn! He was all sex. “Why does Blake want Morgan and Katie anyway?”
    “Well, he wanted them, at first, for what they had on him. Now I’m guessing he just wants them so he can kill them.”
    She frowned. “So why not get him to get Morgan out? He has the power to do it.”
    So did she. If she went to Fields and told him she needed Morgan out to pull off a coup, she could most certainly get him. But that would mean possibly blowing her cover. Blake Wilkes wouldn’t buy them getting released any other way, and the truth was that there were agents on Wilkes’ payroll, and she didn’t know which ones were. She also had no idea of whether or not she’d been made. If Wilkes knew she was an agent, she wouldn’t be able to get anywhere close, especially if she sprang Morgan. Because Wilkes would know she’d been behind his release. It would have to be Wilkes who got them out. “This is way trickier than you led me to believe.”
    He grinned. “I know. But I think it’s possible.”
    Jessie wasn’t so sure. The only person who knew who she was her boss, Fields. She was so deep undercover that, if she got arrested, she could actually face jail-time, and in doing so she would have to break cover in a prison she’d put some criminals in, in order to get off on those charges. The whole thing was seriously risky.
    But if she got Wilkes, it would all be worth it.
    However, the only way to make sure nobody, not even Wilkes, knew, was to go rogue. Drop off the radar. If Wilkes knew she was an agent, and the odds were low, considering everything, then she was already screwed if he didn’t spring Morgan. If she found a way to get him to do it himself, though...
    And that way was lying beside her in the bed, all glorious tanned skin and hard muscle.
    She didn’t want to betray Craig. The files she had on him were thick. If she took down Wilkes, he would go down hard. He was facing life. She had to decide what she wanted more, Wilkes, or being a part of a crew, no matter the consequences.
    And Craig.
    If she chose Craig, she’d be just as much of an exile as he was.
    They’d have to go somewhere and try to start their own crew, and crews knew everything. They were traitors to their own, or at least he was and she would be. If she gave up being an agent, she’d lose everything she’d worked so hard for, and Blake Wilkes would keep right on destroying lives and people, and nobody would ever stop him.
    Also there were zero guarantees that nobody would ever find out she was undercover.
    Craig was a wildcard she hadn’t counted on. She hadn’t counted on feeling a storm of emotions every time she got around him. She hadn’t counted on wanting him, and she damn sure had not factored in that he might be the key to her entire case.
    But now those things were all huge factors, and she had to consider them. She said, “If you have enough of an in with Wilkes, why not suggest a plan to him? Hell, I could go along too. That way he’d know me, and we could suggest that it would be advantageous to the OutKasts for him to go down. Make sure Wilkes feels like he has enough scapegoats to get bold enough to try it.”
    Craig looked at her, a gleam of interest in his eyes.
    “I mean, if he kills them now he makes himself look guilty. But if a rival crew does it...” she let her voice trail off suggestively.
    Craig grinned. “Damn, I knew you were smart! Why didn’t I think of that?”
    “I’m betting you did,” she said dryly, “You just didn’t have anyone to use until just now.”
    “I know it sounds like I’m using you...”
    “You are using me,” she said sharply. “But it’s okay, because I’m using you too.”
    There, she’d drawn the lines. Clearly. He would know going in that this was business. That was the best way to handle it. If he didn’t have any personal feelings for her, and she kept the growing feelings she had for him out of the mix, they could each do something to benefit