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“In my travel bag. ” He sighed. “Backseat of the truck. ”
“Get them. ”
Mark loped back to the truck and eased the back door of the dual cab open as Alex turned to Tyrell.
“You and I are going to scout around a bit. We’ll leave Mark here with Janey. He’s good at feeling trouble. If the stalker doubles back, he can get her out. ”
Tyrell nodded. “We need to get her to our truck, though. You’re blocked here. ”
Alex opened the door quietly and motioned Janey out. As she eased across the seat, he picked her up and carried her to the other truck.
“Don’t leave me here without you, Alex. Please,” she whispered as Mark jerked the front door open and he slid her inside.
He and Tyrell took two of the communication sets and slid them into place on their ears and at the sides
of their necks. Testing reception between the three of them, they nodded quickly.
“Alex, please,” she whispered again.
He turned to her, touched her cheek, and stared into her worried eyes. “It stops here, Janey. You’ll be safe with Mark. I promise. ”
Her eyes closed as a pain-filled grimace contorted her face.
“I love you,” she whispered when her eyes opened, the soft, fierce words striking into his soul. “Do you hear me, Alex Jansen? I love you. Don’t you let yourself get hurt again. ”
God, she filled his soul. How the hell was he supposed to handle this kind of emotion?
“I’m yours,” he whispered. “I’ll always come back to you, Janey. ”
Then he turned away from her. He had to, or he’d never be able to leave her there.
“Keep her safe, and call the Mackays. We’ll be back within twenty,” he told Mark. “I want this bastard tonight. ”
He had the most experience. As Mark had stated before, he and Tyrell had been out of the game for a while. They didn’t have the reflexes or the sense of predatory awareness Alex still possessed.
Mark would protect her with his life, Alex had no doubt of that. But Tyrell had always been a natural at the hunt, while Mark’s instincts had been more refined. He could sense it coming, but he wasn’t as good at pinpointing the direction it was coming from.
Alex would have been a hell of a lot more confident with a Mackay here. Natches would have been nice.
He didn’t like trusting her to anyone else. But the stalker couldn’t know where they were. Whoever it was was watching his house, not the trucks.
The dome lights to the trucks had been disengaged weeks before, so no one could have detected their presence. She would be safe here.
“You be careful. ” Mark nodded to Alex before turning to his lover.
His lips kicked up in a knowing grin as Tyrell, just as broad, as tall, and as strong as the other man, lifted his fist. Mark and Tyrell touched fists, but the gesture was strangely intimate despite the fact that it was the same action often used between soldiers in the field.
This had a gentler quality to it. Male to male, lover to lover, their smiles a bond that went deeper than some male/female kisses Alex had seen.
It blew his mind every time he saw it. Until Mark and Tyrell had come to him years before and revealed that they were lovers, he had never guessed.
“Weapons. ” Mark turned from Tyrell and reached into the backseat. He returned with knives, handguns, ammo clips, and backup ankle weapons.
Alex and Tyrell weaponed up before Alex dipped into the front door, jerked Janey to him, and took his kiss. A deep, tongue-thrusting kiss despite her whimper, her attempts to hold on to him. Pulling back from her, he pressed his fingers to her lips. “Twenty minutes,” he whispered. “Do as Mark says, Janey.
Stay safe for me. ”
She nodded jerkily.
