Countermeasures by Janie Crouch

Author:Janie Crouch
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

When Sawyer had awakened that morning—his internal clock making an alarm unnecessary—Megan had still been wrapped in his arms. Except to turn to face each other, he didn’t think either of them moved from the embrace the entire time they had slept. Staring into her face—her features so relaxed and young-looking in sleep—Sawyer knew the best thing he could do was put some distance between them. Before things became any more complicated than they already were.

He could tell that Megan picked up on it right away. Her giant brain had been working at full capacity from the moment she opened those brown eyes. She hadn’t said anything, but he’d recognized the slight confusion over his withdrawal.

Of course, that decision to withdraw had been shot to hell when Sawyer saw—once again—Megan’s strength and determination. Her willingness to sacrifice her job, although hopefully it wouldn’t come down to that in the long run, and do what had to be done with the countermeasure spoke volumes about her. Sawyer found he wasn’t able, and sure as hell wasn’t willing, to try to keep the distance between them when she was willing to put so much of herself on the line.

He’d just have to deal with the tomorrows as they came. Right now, he wanted to keep Megan as close as possible. He glanced over at her in the passenger side of the car to make sure she was okay. Her eyes were worried, but she gave him one of her shy smiles.

Sawyer had been smiled at by many women over the years, but none of them took his breath away the way Megan did.

Sawyer’s phone buzzed, catching his attention. It was Omega, with a secure code, letting Sawyer know they had received his update about the circumstances at Cyberdyne changing and his plan to remove the equipment needed to finish the countermeasure. An appropriate safe-house address would be delivered soon.

That was the great thing about working for an elite task force like Omega: the ends justifying the means was regular practice. Bending some rules when necessary, such as removing needed items from a company, even though said company had forbidden it, wasn’t even frowned upon in Omega. Omega always kept the big picture as the priority. And the big picture now was getting that countermeasure finished.

Sawyer was glad they would have the safe house ready soon—once he and Megan left Cyberdyne with the stolen equipment, there would be no coming back. They were pulling through the outer gate of Cyberdyne security now. Sawyer showed the guard both his temporary Cyberdyne badge and his law-enforcement credentials and the guard waved them through.

Sawyer relaxed just the slightest bit. The guard hadn’t asked to see Megan’s security badge, nor had he seemed to recognize who she was, so obviously the security team wasn’t on high alert yet. Which was good, because Megan didn’t have a badge to show him.

Sawyer parked the car in the closest spot to the front door, not difficult since the lot was nearly empty.

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