Betrayal of the Dove - By Capri Montgomery Page 0,64
be possible to find anybody who was more suffocating and obnoxious when it came to her than Gavin and maybe even Thomas. The difference was, unlike Eve, she had pretty much learned how to handle them at a young age. She figured they knew the more they insisted she didn’t do something they didn’t want her to do, the more likely she was to do it. If they had been able to have things their way she probably would still be in Boston, close enough for at least one of her brothers to constantly check up on her.
“Thank you,” he said and she laughed.
“It wasn’t a compliment.”
“Was to me,” he assured her. “A man protects his woman,” he looked deep into her eyes before leaning in and covering her mouth with his. His kiss was soft, explorative and passionate rolled into one, and instead of pulling away and continuing the conversation, she leaned into him and kissed him back.
Chapter Twelve
Shane knew from the moment he walked into the room and saw the rest of his former team members sitting at the table that retired or not, they were all back in the game for at least one last hunt. Some had never left in the first place. This wasn’t just about saving their own butts, this was about making a man pay for killing two good men. They wouldn’t let that slide. They would either take this guy in alive, let him stand trial and go to prison, or they’d take him in dead. It didn’t matter at this point because he knew, they all knew, that the next body in that box wasn’t going to be their body, and if they had to kill the bastard to see to that, then they would.
“Guys,” he pulled out a chair and sat down.
“Hey, Shane. Good to see you, man;” Jimmy’s somber voice told Shane these were not the conditions he wanted to see him under. Jimmy had been out on a covert mission when Shane turned in his papers, so he hadn’t been there before he left. They had all agreed to get together when they were all landlocked on the same continent, but this wasn’t exactly what they had in mind when they made the agreement.
Shane nodded. “What do we know so far?”
“Not sure yet,” Jimmy pushed a file folder in front of Shane. “The C.O. was waiting on you to get here before he started. He got a call before you came in, but he left these files on everybody who has ever applied for transfer into one of the Dove Team units.”
Shane looked at the file folder that was nearly bursting at the seams. “And we couldn’t narrow this down a bit more beforehand?”
“Guess not,” Jimmy pointed to all the other folders. “I’d just like to add that your file folder has completely different names than mine and the others. We’re all looking at different people here.”
“That’s a lot of people to look at.” Out of the five men who had showed up, they all had the same dark green folders.
“These are just the ones who were denied. The captain didn’t think we needed to look at the people who were approved.”
Shane nodded. “Wouldn’t make sense that it would be one of us,” he said. “But clearly Rick knew, or at least recognized the man who killed him. Maybe he interviewed him through one of his testing phases.”
“That’s why the commander gave you those,” he pointed to the extra file folder.
“I get two? Lucky me,” he said dryly. The benefit was that the second folder in front of him was thin, which meant it had less paper which in his book equated to far fewer names to look at. Maybe he should start with that list first.
“It’s a list of the ones he interviewed under your supervision, and the ones you both tag teamed. After what happened to your lady, the captain thought it would be best if you took the shorter list first—just in case.”
“Just in case it’s related to us,” he finished the sentence Jimmy didn’t feel the need to finish.
“What affects one of us hits us all, you know that.”
“I know,” he said. He wasn’t taking this on his shoulders alone. He was well aware that they were all in danger, but the more he thought about it, the more he thought maybe this was about him. He had given it some thought while he was in route to Colorado Springs and every thought led