CHASING GRACE: A Joint Task Team Novel by Edith Lalonde

Author:Edith Lalonde
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

Chase wrung the steaming hot water out of the washcloth and used it to wipe his face. He groaned into the pitted square, passing the scratchy fabric hard over his skin and letting the heat sink in. Christ, he was tired. He’d only managed to snatch a couple of hours of sleep here and there in the last four days.

In a hurry, he tossed the cloth into the sink, and flicking the light switch off on his way out, the bathroom went dark. Gray had protested drunkenly but didn’t wake when he’d washed her face and hands a minute ago. Still curled in a ball, she appeared determined to spend the next twelve hours in that position.

Before putting her under his sheets, Chase had done a quick check of her contusions. The majority of them were already turning into a kaleidoscope of healing. Her body a mass of various shades of shit that hurts.

He sat on the edge of Tak’s bed, the mattress sinking under his weight. Forearms braced on his thighs and hands hanging loose, he watched her sleep, relieved he finally had her where she should be. With him. In his room. In his bed. He just wished it were big enough for both of them.

Watching Gray hibernate wasn’t how he’d intended to spend their second night in relative safety, but Jackson biting the bullet had altered his plans. As expected, it hadn’t taken Jay long to locate Gray’s business partner. Unfortunately, the man had already taken up residence in a body bag.

The news broke on CNN an hour later.

Chase had let Gray sleep as long as he dared. Once she was awake, he barely had time to finish breaking the news to her before she’d taken off at a dead run.

Barefoot with tousled hair flying behind her, she’d bee-lined for the COMMs center. Going too fast, she didn’t make the turn and had crashed into the door on her way in. She had a couple of new bruises on her arm for her efforts.

The commotion had six sets of eyes checking her out in Tak’s boxers. Minus one, because Z was still MIA, it had been a full JTT house this morning. And they’d all gotten an eyeful of just how long Gray’s legs were.

The assorted looks of appreciation, the colonel being the one exception, had Chase wanting to give out punches to the face like Halloween had come early, and he was handing out candy.

She’d spent the rest of the morning wrapped in a blanket on her father’s couch, blaming herself for Jackson’s death and missing the fact he’d put her in the line of fire in the first place.

It drove the colonel mental, and he’d questioned her roughly, one rapid-fire question after the next. Either she was the best damn liar Chase had ever come across, or Gray truly didn’t know anything about the operation that had been her father’s, her brother’s, and the JTT’s entire lives for the past two years.

They were missing a connection somewhere.

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