Broken Honor by Burrows Tonya

Author:Burrows, Tonya [Burrows, Tonya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Broken Honor, SEAL, Romantic Suspense, hornet, lora leigh, contemporary romance, Military, Select, Entangled, Tonya Burrows, Maya Banks, Thriller, Contemporary
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-02-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

“We’ll crash here for the night.”

As Travis shifted the van into park, Mara blinked open her gritty eyes and looked around. More darkness, more trees, but the landscape had flattened out while she was trying and failing to sleep. “Where’s here?”

“We’re still in Transnistria, if that’s what you’re asking. We can’t leave until I figure out how to get us through the border checkpoints into Moldova and then to the air force base in Romania.”

“Why not take me to the closest consulate?”

He gave her a dry look before he crawled out of his seat and ducked into the cargo area of the van. “My former teammates are after me. They want me badly enough that they killed my best friend. Do you really think they wouldn’t warn any government officials of my presence in their country? If I show my face at a consulate, the marines stationed there will arrest me”—he snapped his fingers—“like that. Someone high up has to be involved in this, too, and then it will only take some paper shuffling to get me where they want me. Besides, the only embassy I’d be comfortable taking you to is in Bucharest, and the air force base is closer.”

She stretched out a crick in her neck before following him. “Won’t the air force arrest you?”

“Yeah.” Grim lines hardened his mouth as he shook out a sleeping bag from his pack and laid it on top of the pallet she’d slept on earlier. “But the air force is a completely separate entity from the navy. They’re less likely to be corrupted by…whoever the hell is behind this.”

“The lesser of two evils?”

“Pretty much. At least if I turn myself in to the air force, I might live long enough to set foot on U.S. soil again. Hell, maybe I’ll even get a shot at a decent trial.”

“Trial for what?”

“For killing Todd Urban.”

Outrage seared the lining of her throat. “But you did it to protect me. He kidnapped me!”

Travis pointed a finger at her. “Exactly the reason I need to keep you alive. You’re my get-out-of-jail-free card.”

“Oh, of course.” She snorted in disgust. “Silly me for thinking you’d want me alive because I’m carrying your child. Or, say, because you care about me.”

“Dammit, don’t make me sound like a heartless asshole.”

“I don’t need to. You do a good job of sounding heartless all by yourself.” She sat down with her back to the wall of the van and ignored his creative cursing. Folding her hands across her belly, she watched him put together a makeshift bed until the silence between them started to weigh on her, pressing down on her lungs, making breathing difficult. “Are you physically incapable of carrying on a genuine, personal conversation?”

Without a word, he grabbed another pack from along the wall and unbuckled a second bedroll. He tossed the second sleeping bag over the first with a lot more force than necessary. Then he sighed, and his shoulders slumped forward.

“What I said before…it came out wrong.” He turned toward her with an expression of complete exasperation.

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