Cease and Desist: A Thrilling Novel of Romantic Suspense (Callahan Security Series Book 6) by Lori Matthews

Author:Lori Matthews [Matthews, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wild Coyote Press
Published: 2023-02-15T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Hawk kept his arms crossed over his chest because if he didn’t, he’d reach out and pull Remy to him. He wanted her safe in the circle of his arms, but his training forced him to be realistic. Having sex with her had been a major mistake. When he most needed a clear head and laser focus, he’d clouded the line. Emotions, including lust, were a big distraction, and they weren’t ever helpful.

That was one of the reasons he was glad that, as a SEAL, he’d never had a wife back home for him to return from a mission. He’d witnessed his team struggle to leave their lives in the US behind. To not think about their wives and kids when it came time to missing anniversaries and birthdays. It was drilled into them that they needed to disengage with life at home, once they got on the airplane that was taking them to their next assignment. Hell, they’d even had to leave wedding rings and family pictures in their gear lockers.

He never wanted to have to struggle like that. Thanks to his fucked up parental situation, he never thought about all those things. He didn’t have anyone to really miss, and that made him fucking good at his job. Like scary fucking good. But it also made him lonely.

Now he needed to be his old self. The calm, focused, cold-as-ice asshole who would get the job done. Emotion would just cost him, and Remy was too dear of a price. He swallowed. “We need to start seriously thinking about where your grandfather could have hidden his token.”

“We don’t even know what it is. How can we look for it?” Remy huffed out a breath. “Plus, everyone has beaten us to the two places I thought he would hide something. Do you think they missed it?”

Hawk rested his ass on the desk. “It’s a possibility, but not likely. I think your grandfather was a smart man. It sounds like he didn’t need to show his token regularly. Only for board meetings. He didn’t have to have it when he let people use the stairs because at most he would have to walk them down. He wasn’t always going in, so it wouldn’t have to be in the shop or his apartment. No, I think he put it somewhere he could retrieve it when he needed it but kept it out of reach in case such a situation arose.”

Remy set her mug on the table next to the bed. “Why do you think he didn’t introduce me to the board?”

Hawk didn’t want to answer that. “I have no idea. He must have had his reasons.” He didn’t know Remy Jr. so he didn’t want to comment on the man’s integrity, but Dragan had said that Remy Jr. would have lost his protection the moment he introduced Remy to the board. Was the old man that selfish? Was it because he had already lost his son and daughter-in-law, so he was

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