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“All right, Sergeant. It seems you need other motivation. Itis unfortunate, but a reality we are prepared for. We will secure it and speakagain. Enjoy the accommodations in the meantime,” the voice said. “Klaus, dosethe sergeant and secure him in his cell. We’ll decide between his mother orsister. He can watch us use them, and then we’ll see who he values.”
“Please not my mom. My mom… Don’t hurt my mom.” His motherwould kill these fuckers if they touched her. She’d been a deadly soldier mostof her life, and he would still put her up against most of his teammates tothis day. But Devi… His sister wasn’t as well trained. She knew someself-defense, but Devi would get hurt.
“Or perhaps the little mouse you hang out with when you’rehome. What was her name?” There was a whisper. “Oh, yes, Louisa. She works fora think tank. She might be an extra prize herself.”
Fuck. Not Lou. He couldn’t be the reason Lou got hurt.
He kicked out, his mind going red at the thought of Lou inthese bastards’ hands.
Then he felt the prick of a needle against his bicep, andthe world went dark.
Chapter Two
Lou hustled into the conference room at the McKay-Taggartbuilding. It was usually empty on a Sunday, but the conference room held thetwins and Cooper McKay.
It was Cooper who looked up bleary eyed as she strodethrough the glass doors with Zach.
“There better be a good reason I’m here on my day off,” Coopsaid, yawning behind his hand.
“He’s grumpy because play at The Hideout last night wentinto overtime,” Kala said with a smirk. “I told you that beam wasn’t going tohold that rigging.”
She’d skipped her regular Saturday hangout at the BDSM clubher friends ran in favor of sitting at home with Bud 2 and watching old rerunsof Mission Impossible. The sixties version. She’d been up and out ofthe house before the twins had woken up. But she didn’t have time for arundown. “TJ is in trouble.”
That got everyone sitting up straight.
“What do you mean? I texted with him a couple of days ago,”Kenzie said. “He was hanging out at Ramstein. He had a lot of paperwork to doafter his CO got whacked. He blamed Kala, despite the fact that we kept hermurdering him out of the official reports, but he knows her pretty well.”
“The dude was going to kill my sister. I would have fuckedup Chet, too, if he hadn’t cried like a baby,” Kala said under her breath.
Chet Whittington had been a CIA operative who’d gone bad,and TJ’s CO had been in on it with him. They were both dead now, and she’dtaken some comfort in it since Chet had openly declared he was at war with theTaggarts.
“What did you text him about?” Zach sat down at the head ofthe table where he’d placed his laptop. He flipped it open and started typing.
“About him coming home,” Kenz explained. She bit her bottomlip. “He had a couple of questions.”
Lou could bet on what those questions were. “Did he want toknow if I was still mad?”
Kenzie sighed. “Yes. He wanted to know how to talk to you.He feels bad.”
“He should,” Kala declared. “He’s been fucking up Lou’s lifefor more than a decade now.”
She wasn’t here to talk about her love life or lack of one.“It doesn’t matter. What does matter is the fact that until twenty-four hoursago, TJ had been planning to come home for a couple of weeks. Cooper, did TJtext you?”
There was something about the tight set of Coop’s jaw thatlet Lou know he was hiding something. He’d been completely relaxed until he’dseen her. It wasn’t the first time Coop had felt bad for her about something TJhad done.
Cooper sat back. “TJ is fine. He just changed his mind aboutcoming home.”
A brow rose over Zach’s eyes. He was slightly older than therest of them. At twenty-nine, Zach was the team’s Army advisor. He was incharge when it came to the military teams they used as backup, but they alllooked to Zach when it came to the physical aspects of a mission. “Did he sendyou pictures?”
Coop unlocked his phone. “Yeah. Does Lou need to see this?”
“Yes, Lou needs to see this.” She reached out and lookeddown at the screen. There was TJ, smiling next to a gorgeous blonde. They wereat some swanky ski resort looking cozy and all coupled up.
Change of plans, brother. I’m going to hole up with thiscutie for a couple of weeks. See you soon.
That picture made her ache, but she pushed the feelingaside. “And you think this is real?”
Cooper frowned. “Why wouldn’t it be real?”
