All Chapters of Heels & Handcuffs - Club Gold Trilogy: Chapter 31 - Chapter 33

Keith. Elena Colombo's first day in my organization does not go smoothly. "Absolutely not," Dimitri says flatly when I announce she'll be training alongside Amanda. "I will not put them in same room. One will kill the other." "Then make sure it's supervised killing. Controlled aggression builds skills." I'm only half-joking. "Elena needs to understand how we operate, and Amanda needs to learn to work with people she doesn't trust. It's perfect." Marcus, sitting across from my desk, looks equally skeptical. "Boss, I get what you're trying to do. Convert the enemy, keep her close, all that Sun Tzu stuff. But Elena kidnapped you three days ago. Putting her in a position where she has access to Amanda, to our operations, to sensitive information—it's a massive risk." "Life is risk. This is calculated risk." "Calculated insanity, more like." I can't entirely disagree. But my instincts tell me that Elena, properly channeled, could be a valuable asset. She has skills, connections, and

Keith. The audit reveals nothing. Three days of scrutinizing financial records, communication logs, movement patterns—and everyone comes up clean. Marcus, Dimitri, Sofia, even Amanda. No unexplained deposits, no suspicious contacts, no gaps in their timelines that would indicate covert meetings. Which means either our mole is exceptionally good at covering their tracks, or they're someone we haven't considered. "There has to be something," I mutter, staring at the screens in Sofia's surveillance room. "Sokolov's information is too accurate to be coming from external surveillance alone. Someone's feeding him details." Sofia pulls up another set of files. "I've been thinking about that. What if it's not one of us directly? What if the mole is using an intermediary?" "Explain." "Someone in the organization, but not inner circle. Someone with access to reports, security briefings, the kind of administrative work that gives them information without requiring high-level clearance."