All Knighter (Knight Ops Book 1) by Em Petrova

Author:Em Petrova [Petrova, Em]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Ben’s skin burned where they’d taken a flame to him. The smell of burning hair had haunted him for days after, even though the hairs on his forearms were long since shriveled and the burns treated.

Fuck, things hadn’t just gone sideways—he and his team had dropped straight into the pits of hell when they’d walked into the South American hovel to rescue a US special ops force being held hostage. Then Ben had become the hostage.

He leaned forward and dropped his head into his hands as memories swept him.

Rocko had taken the first bullet, followed by Roades. Dammit, Ben couldn’t quit thinking about the pain twisting his little brother’s face as he fell. Yet his other brothers kept assuring him Roades was fine, a superficial wound that was on the mend and he was already back to being his usual, snide asshole self.

Ben watched the memory play like a movie again through his head, thinking that at some point his baby brother had grown up and become a true credit to the team he served—he hadn’t even made a noise when the bullet had ripped through his leg.

The moment had shocked Ben so much that he hadn’t noticed the guy coming up behind him. In seconds, he’d been fighting for his life, a wire around his neck as he was dragged away. To his relief, he hadn’t been strangled, but that was short-lived because they’d placed him with the other hostages and added him to the ranks of the tortured.

What he knew of the rest of the mission was cloudy, given in bits and pieces by his brothers. Sean had taken charge, managed to kill a few of the thugs guarding the place and scrambled to get Knight Ops out.

But it was too late to get them all out and he’d had to make the hard decision of saving five and leaving Ben behind. He kept telling Ben that he knew as captain, Ben would have done the same, and that was the only way he’d managed to walk away. Ben knew by that speech that his brother was still aching over being forced into making the choice.

He rubbed at the bandage covering his forearm. He was told to stay out of the sun while the burns healed, but the warm rays were the only thing he had right now. Even thoughts of Dahlia made his stomach roll.

Dear God. Dahlia.

Though she couldn’t know it, she was the only thing that had gotten him through that hell. When the enemy came for him to deliver that final beating, Dahlia’s beautiful face had given him the strength to break the guard’s neck and then turn his own weapon against him.

Sure, four US hostages had gotten to escape, but not before two others were killed. At least Ben had the satisfaction that he’d sent the bad guys on their way to hell and maimed several others who had kept them imprisoned and taken hourly joy in torturing fellow countrymen.

Dahlia had gotten him through it all, and now he was avoiding going home to her.

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