Code of Honor (HORNET) by Burrows Tonya

Author:Burrows, Tonya [Burrows, Tonya]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Entangled, Amara, Select Suspense, romance, romantic suspense, rom sus, military, special ops, contemporary romance, cowboy, single father
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-10-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

“Where are the locals?”

Jesse looked up from pulling glass out of a woman’s leg and found Ian standing over him. The woman recoiled, her calf muscle going tense in his hand. Irritation spiked through him, and he released a soft breath to dispel it. He focused on the woman and offered a smile. “It’s okay,” he said. Even though she didn’t speak English, he was careful to keep his voice soft and gentle. He carefully set her leg down and stood, motioning for Ian to follow him outside with a jerk of his head.

Ian stepped over the woman like she was nothing more than a log blocking his path. Jesus.

As soon as they were out of earshot, he whirled. “You need to keep the hell away from my patients. You’re scarin’ them and they’ve had enough terror for one night, don’t ya think?”

Ian crossed his arms in front of him. In deference to the island heat, his ever-present leather jacket was absent, and his heavily muscled arms bulged under the ink covering every inch of skin from wrist to the sleeve of his white T-shirt. “I’m not the fucking bad guy here.”

“Then stop stompin’ around scowlin’ at everyone.”

Seth seemed to appear out of nowhere—the sniper could move like a ghost when he wanted to—and stepped between them. “Guys. C’mon. This isn’t helping.”

“Stay out of this, Hero,” Ian said, knocking aside the scarred hand Seth set on his shoulder.

Seth ignored him. “Hey. I know you’re losing your shit about Tank. And you”—he sent a pointed look in Jesse’s direction—“about Lanie. They’re both going to be fine. They’ll take care of each other.”

Ian seemed to deflate, the fight going out of him for a moment. There were only two men able to talk Ian down when he got into one of his pissed-off-at-the-world moods—Gabe and, strangely, Seth. It was kind of amazing to watch because Jesse never had any luck talking to the guy.

“Still doesn’t change my question,” Ian said after a second and straightened his shoulders again. “Where are the locals? Martinique has a police force, and last I knew the French military had a significant presence on the island. So where the hell is everyone? This resort should be crawling with cops, but so far the only two I’ve seen are Lanie and Danny G.”

“Lanie’s not a Ranger anymore,” Jesse muttered. But, yeah, it was a good question. Not that he would admit it out loud. Ian was the only man on the team he had no interest in getting along with. The guy just rubbed him the wrong way. Had from day one. And he was pretty sure the feeling was mutual. Ian didn’t like anyone except his dog. And maybe, occasionally, Seth. The two men had forged some kind of rapport a couple years ago in the mountains of Afghanistan. Though why Seth or anyone else would want to be friends with a volatile asshole who thought blowing shit up was the best form stress relief and torture was a perfectly acceptable means of gathering intel was beyond Jesse’s understanding.

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