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Solid Gold (Unseen Enemy 8)

Solid Gold (Unseen Enemy 8)

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last updateLast Updated : 2026-01-06
By:  Marysol JamesCompleted
Language: English
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Contemporary

Steamy

Drama

Alpha

Dominant

Hidden Identity

Forbidden Love

Twist

Misunderstanding

Claire nodded, then groaned as he withdrew his finger from her pulsing, aching sex. She heard him walk down the hallway, heard him open the drawer in the bedside table, heard the crinkle of the condom wrapper, heard him approach her again. And that whole time, she stayed where she was: legs trembling and open, hands clenched into fists on the wall, heart pounding and pussy fluttering. Suddenly, he was on her, his cock nudging her from behind, his hands on her hips. Claire whimpered again, pushed back against him. **** John “Griff” Griffin lives by rules. Always has. From the Navy to the SEALs to his job as a bodyguard at Solid Security, control is survival. Protocol saves lives. Boundaries exist for a reason, especially during honeypot ops. Break the rules, and people get hurt. Griff knows that better than anyone. The problem is Claire Worthington. Claire is supposed to be a spoiled socialite hiding after a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. A criminal. A mark. Instead, she’s living quietly in Denver: working, rebuilding, and starting over like she actually means it. She doesn’t look guilty. She looks… real. When Griff breaks every rule and falls for her, it feels like freedom. It’s also a lie. He’s hiding his name, his job, and the truth – that he was sent to get close and gather evidence. If Claire knew, would she forgive him? Should she? And if she really is guilty, will Griff turn her in… or protect the woman he loves, no matter the cost?

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78 Chapters
Chapter One
John ‘Griff’ Griffin made himself a third cup of instant coffee, and headed back to his desk to go over the case paperwork one more time. His meeting with his boss and the new client was in less than twenty minutes, and he was determined to be ready for it.He sat, sipped, shuffled the mountain of papers. Griff knew that he knew this back-and-forth – he’d spent the weekend poring over it, after all – but if there was one thing that he’d learned in his time in the navy, it was that you were never too prepared. That thinking had saved his life, and more than once.Absently, he rubbed at the long, thick scar that ran the length of the left side of his neck. It was ugly and it was bright purple, but he was covered in enough scars to not be self-conscious about it. In fact, he cherished and valued it in a way, cherished and valued it as much as he did his dog tags from his time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Like them, he treated that rough, raised flesh as a reminder of just what happened when
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Chapter Two
He shrugged, his massive shoulder muscles rippling through the crisp dress shirt material. “‘Cause I hate that goddamn coffee machine, so I acted as incompetent as possible so you’d never let me anywhere near it. That way, I can stick to my beloved instant shit that I just add boiling water to, and you can handle the steam and milk foam and fiddly little capsules and cinnamon.”Roxanna stared at him, impressed despite herself. “Well played, Griff.”“Thanks, Roxie,” he said cheerfully. “So… as a peace offering, how about this: I’ll make the coffee when the new client comes in. Deal?”She gazed at him some more, then she smiled. Griff stared down at her, a bit stunned at the shining glory of that smile. Roxanna smiled at him rarely and she never smiled at him like this. Griff was amazed at how it changed her face, totally and beautifully – she suddenly looked about six years younger than her thirty-one years, and good God, were her eyes ever gorgeous when they were all lit up and spark
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Chapter Three
“Ms. Burns.” Dallas tilted his head at her, his voice and eyes both warm. “You brought the pictures?”“I did.” Leeza Burns set her cell phone on the conference room table with shaking hands. “I’m so sorry that I didn’t send them to you before now, Mr. Foreman. I just couldn’t… I don’t know. I wanted to show them to you in person, I guess.”“I totally understand your thinking, and please call me Dallas.” He gave her his trademark charming grin, and then indicated at Griff. “And Mr. John Griffin here prefers to be called ‘Griff’.”“Dallas and Griff,” she repeated. “Leeza.”“Leeza,” Griff said. “What pictures are we talking about? Are these new ones? Ones that ain’t in the file?”Leeza fidgeted a bit with her blouse button. “I – I took some cell pictures of Claire Worthington.”Griff’s eyebrows shot up. “You mean here in Denver, right?”“Yes.” She exhaled, hard. “Dallas says that you’ve read the reports, so you know that I saw her on the street. Just walking around Denver, like she was a
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Chapter Four
"And why do you think that it ain’t the real story?” Griff asked. This was the question that he’d been puzzling over ever since he’d started reading the file, and it was a big one. Whatever the answer, it was enough for this woman to be here in this office, ready to drain her bank account in order to finally make it happen. This answer was everything to her and Griff was damn well going to hear it here and now. “Why don’t you believe that they’re really divorced and totally out of each other’s lives? Why do you think it’s all a sham? Why do you think that she’s got full access to the money they stole, or to at least part of it?”“Because, like I said before,” Leeza said evenly, the anger back in her voice now. “She was happy.”Griff cocked his blond head at her. “Still not following you.”“I am,” Dallas said quietly. “I totally am.”“Alright,” Griff said, all amiable charm. “So maybe break it down for the slow guy in the room?”Leeza managed a tiny smile at that, and Griff grinned bac
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Chapter Five
“So… why is she so happy?” Leeza asked. “Why is she wandering the streets looking like she’s the most ecstatic woman to inhabit planet Earth?” She didn’t wait for a response; she went right on ahead and answered. “It’s because her marriage is just fine, really. And because she has one hell of a back-up plan and crash cushion, one that keeps her safe, and I’m willing to lay every penny that I have that she has full access to some sizable offshore accounts.”“Mmm-hmmmm.” Griff sighed. “Go on.”"Maybe she can’t touch ‘em now, because of the heat and because she isn’t allowed to leave the country, but the feds told me and so I know for a fact that she sold quite a bit of her family jewelry, and so she has a nice chunk of change that she’s living on. She can wait a while to hit the payload. I figure that she’s thinking that, yeah, things are shit right now, but she sees that pot of gold waiting at the end of the dark tunnel – sorry to mix my metaphors, but you get what I’m saying – and so
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Chapter Six
He knew why, of course. The son of a coal miner Dad and seamstress Mom from one of the most impoverished parts of Ohio, Griff knew all about working-class families. He knew just how hard his parents had worked to skimp and save for things for himself and his sister Felicia. He knew just how much they had depended on their pensions and Medicaid until the end of their lives. They’d taught him the importance of a real work ethic; the integrity of an honest day’s work. When he’d enlisted and gone to the Middle East, they hadn’t known much about the place he was going, but they’d been nothing but proud of him. They were salt-of-the-earth folk, in the end, and they may not have had many book-smarts, but they’d been serious and professional about what they did know. Most importantly, they’d been good, decent people. The kind of people who gave to others, just because they had that little bit extra to spare.Now, what if some fucking Wall-Street tycoon who played with numbers on a laptop all
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Chapter Seven
The least the woman could do was sprout moles and warts and zits all over her face, and get haggard and wrinkled. Griff was a big believer that a person’s outer appearance was a reflection of their inner beauty and kindness, that a person’s nasty inner persona was clearly visible on their face and body. So, by that logic, Claire Worthington should have been one seriously ugly woman. The fact that she wasn’t felt unfair and deeply wrong, and Griff decided to just go right on ahead and take that personally.Yeah, this one was personal to him and the sooner he admitted that, the better. Sure, Wilbur had scammed other rich people and large businesses out of their money, but he hadn’t ignored or overlooked the average Joe and Jane at all. People like Leeza’s Dad, people like Griff’s parents – hell, people like Griff – had been in his crosshairs too. And boy, had he taken aim and fired.Direct hits, man. Way, way too many of them.“OK, so.” Leeza’s voice trembled slightly, and the men focus
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Chapter Eight
Griff shrugged. “Dallas will be passing everything on to the SEC, and they’ll be investigating our hunches. As soon as they hit pay dirt – and they will, believe me – Claire will be hauled in for questioning. If she’s smart, she’ll offer up information in exchange for a plea bargain. Probably the account numbers and passwords in exchange for probation and time served.”“She won’t go to jail?” Leeza said, horrified.“Doubtful, and if she did, it’d be for a few months at most.” Griff sighed. “Unless the SEC and the feds can actually prove a rock-solid connection between her and the bank accounts before she turns informant, then she’ll just be used as a source, I’m afraid. With our help, they may find that proof, and if they do, she’s toast… but if not, her biggest use is to retrieve the money and return it to the government and the investors.” He studied her closely, his green eyes worried. “Can you live with that?”“If it means that she’s really alone and humiliated and penniless?” Lee
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Chapter Nine
At eight-oh-two the next morning, Griff was sitting in The Web Café with his warm knit hat pulled down low over his forehead, nursing a strong black coffee and staring out the window at the grayest, coldest early-February that he could recall in recent memory. He was no stranger to harsh winters and heavy snowfalls, of course, but he was taken aback at the wind that whipped on down the Rocky Mountains. Before moving to Denver, he hadn’t really experienced a wind that sliced your cheeks like a knife, and froze the air in your lungs, and cut through four layers of clothing like they were made of tissue paper.He was just wondering why the hell Claire Worthington would choose Colorado instead of, say, California, when the café door opened, and in strolled the woman herself. Griff didn’t react, of course, didn’t so much as glance her way as she stood in the door and stomped her boots to loosen the snow clinging to them – but he was hyper-aware of her every movement.She took off her mitte
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Chapter Ten
Irritated, he deleted the ridiculous words, then shot her another look, this one quite possibly laced with venom and lacking in professionalism. She was now unpacking her things: a shiny silver MacBook Air, a notebook, a pair of lime-green earbuds. His stomach clenched as he realized that she’d be staying put for a while. Maybe a good, long while. Well, that sure as hell worked for Griff. He was in no big goddamn rush to head back out into the cold.Mirrie brought Claire her drink now, and Griff spotted what looked like whipped cream and cinnamon and quite possibly chocolate sprinkles on top of it, and he almost rolled his eyes and huffed. Of course Claire Worthington was a whipped-cream-on-premium-flavored-coffee-with-all-the-trimmings kind of girl… no plain, cheap black java for her. Only the best for Princess Claire. Only the fanciest and the priciest. Always and forever.Griff made a quick note of her top-of-the-line laptop model and her beverage-of-choice, then settled back in h
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