Polliannah Got Married!
(Sémya Slotin Mystery #3)
Author: Danielle-Claude Ngontang Mba
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Series: Sémya Slotin Mystery Series
Blurb:
The truth this time, and nothing but the truth…
Polliannah Koch Guryev is in trouble and her boyfriend is dead.
But at what cost? Old conspiracies and secrets resurface that put them all in peril. Sémya’s worst fears about her relationship with Josh and his past are confirmed, and the rift between them may never heal.
Sémya and Polliannah’s world is falling apart. Will they be able to come out of this stronger?
Oh, and did I mention that Polliannah got married?
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Polliannah Got Married! (Sémya Slotin Mystery #3)
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Bird of Prey (Sémya Slotin Mystery, #1)
The Plot Thickens (Sémya Slotin Mystery, #2)
Excerpt:
Sémya stretched out her body long enough to
get Josh’s attention. “Don’t you even think about it…” she said when she
noticed his eyes glittering. “Thank you for the business class seats, very
private.”
He
caressed her cheek and leaned down, “That was the whole point.” The third seat next to their pod was empty. “It feels like we’re
alone here.”
She
stopped him only mere inches from her mouth. No distraction, even if this one
was the sexiest of them all. She got distracted
with the Cartier case and she didn’t pay enough attention to Polliannah and her
mysterious John. She should have insisted on meeting him, a photo or even a
fucking last name! Now she was on her way to Canada again after some many
years. She should be packing for Cuba! A well-deserved vacation for the three
of them, it would have been their reward for closing that Cartier case. “We
need to talk, Heinz.” He looked at her, but said nothing. “Are you in any ways
linked to this case?” He’s going to lie
to me…
“I
don’t know, Sémya. I honestly don’t know,” he told her.
“Okay,
let’s rewind. Does this have anything to do with your reason for being in
London?” she asked then.
“Sémya…”
he started to say.
“Don’t
Sémya me! You’re obviously one bad bodyguard if you couldn’t catch the fact that
Polli and I had a stalker for more than two months,” she told him. She saw the
anger flashing through his eye. Well, he did let her down! She had secretly
always thought that he was this man who had been there to protect her from…
herself and the big bad world even though she didn’t need it.
“Are
you done, Slotin?” he said.
“Not
by a long shot if you have anything to do with all this,” she said and picked
her laptop and the file Ally gave her. She made sure that the other file stayed hidden.
“I’m
not your bodyguard, Sémya. I never was,” he told her.
“Whatever
you say, Heinz,” she mumbled back. She
opened her John Smith file and added what she knew about him. John Allen, Irish
or Northern Irish, works for the Dovos family. She didn’t know a lot about the
Dovos family, but she knew enough to discern that if they wanted Dmitri Guryev
it wasn’t a good thing.
She
kept typing in silence for another hour, sending a few side-glances to Josh
from time to time. He was reading… a book without a care in the world. “I think
he targeted her because she was the single one,” she told him and closed her
laptop. Polliannah was the one with the
answers, all she could do now was try to relax and get some sleep. Another
glass of champagne would be nice right now.
“I rarely come to the store. How would
he know?” he asked her, closing his book.
“I
bitch about you all the time to Manuel. That lad deserves a raise for all the
things he’s heard his bosses say,” she told him.
“I
see…” Josh said. He took her by the chin, “He approached her the day you went
to Paris, Sémya.”
Polliannah
told her about John the night she came back from visiting her mother in Paris.
It was supposed to have been an easy case of stolen sketches from one fashion
house to another, but it became the Johanna Cartier’s murder. “He kept taking
her to her favourite restaurants and plays.” She grabbed his hand and squeezed
it, “I do love the way you think, Heinz.” She really did…
He
kissed her, “We’ll talk after we land, I promise.” He slowly ran his hand through
her hair. Sémya tried to think about all her new rules about distraction, “Come
here…”
“But
how about Sergey? We didn’t discuss it in the store at all,” she moaned,
pushing him away a little. They went to Maska for information on the Cartier
case. Gary Finch, Johanna’s accomplice, was living in London under an assumed
name and Maska was the place in
London for fake papers. The truth was that they were completely isolated with a
lot of free time until they landed in a few hours.
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