Bulldog's Girls by Ann Mayburn

Author:Ann Mayburn [Mayburn, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Single Parent Romance, small town romance, Michigan Romance, Single Mother Romance, Romantic Suspense
Publisher: Honey Mountain Publishing
Published: 2017-09-17T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 1

Daniel

Three months later

Muted sunlight shone through the floor to ceiling windows facing out over downtown Detroit twenty stories below, illuminating the plush office in a warm glow. Daniel’s light-sensitive eyes began to ache and he turned away from the beams of daylight before they became like shards of glass, digging into his head. Normally, out of deference to his injury, he handled only night-based cases so he’d been surprised when he received the text to come to the office ASAP.

His boss and the former Sergeant Major of his Marine battalion, John Milton, looked up from the paperwork covering his desk and shook his head. The deep lines around his mouth curved slightly, the old man’s version of a smile.

“At ease, Escobar.”

Daniel flushed and quickly corrected his stance, realizing he stood at parade rest before his boss. “Sorry, sir. Guess I’m still getting used to the civilian world.”

Milton grunted and pushed away from the desk. He still cut a trim figure in his thousand-dollar suit, and the slight limp from walking with a prosthetic leg was hardly visible. “Takes some time to adjust to the outside world, but you seem to be holding up.” He turned the full force of his gaze on Daniel. “Anything you want to tell me about? Any issues you want to discuss?”

It took a great deal of effort to keep his expression neutral. The last thing he wanted was his boss to find out about the nightmares that kept him awake at night, affording him maybe four hours of solid sleep not haunted by bloody images from the battlefield. Then again, considering what some of his buddies went through with PTSD, he was the poster child for mental health. “No, sir, I’m doing all right.”

Milton studied him for a moment longer before grunting. “I see you decided to grow some shit on your face. Why is that the first thing men do after they leave the service?”

Daniel stroked his neatly trimmed black goatee and grinned. It was a running joke among the staff of the Contego Agency, the elite personal security firm Milton owned, about the men having different types of non-regulation hair. Milton kept his face shaved smooth and his haircut in a high and tight ready for inspection while his employees had everything from a full beard to hair long enough to braid. One agent had even tried to grow mutton chop side burns before he realized women didn’t dig it.

Daniel shaved his head completely due to the seven inch shrapnel wound going down the center of his head. No hair would grow there and he hated how it made him look like he had a reverse mohawk. “You said you had a special assignment for me, sir?”

Milton’s lips tightened and he strode over to the window, going into the same parade rest posture he’d chided Daniel about. “You’ve been with us for five months now and excelled at everything we’ve thrown at you.” Daniel’s chest warmed at the rare compliment from Milton. “I think you’re ready for your first baby.

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