Covering Coco_Special Forces_Operation Alpha by Heather Long

Author:Heather Long [Long, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2018-06-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

If it had been anyone but Tex, Jacko would have ignored the call. He and the other retired SEAL had struck up an unorthodox, if familiar relationship that was equal parts friendly and competitive. “What?”

Coco settled back into the bed, and closed her eyes, effectively ending their discussion rather than putting it on hold for a moment.

“You’re alive,” Tex said, his dry tone echoing across the line. “Wolf’s about ten minutes away on a chopper if you need a bailout.”

“All secure, but he could drop off a cheeseburger if he’s in the neighborhood.” He wasn’t all that ready to tell Coco the identity of their backup, nor share more than he already had. At the moment, he wrestled with whether she was the problem or just caught in the crossfire. It didn’t help that Wagner hadn’t been sure other than if anyone knew the identity of the double agent, it was her.

“Glad to hear it, I’ll have him stand down for the moment. Are we still on schedule?” He’d plotted their escape route with Wolf’s SEAL team providing support out of sight, if he never needed to call them in then it was better. France was still an allied country and they were making moves that flew against general convention. Wagner signed off on only a portion of the plan.

“For the most part, and sorry about the delay. Migraine got me.” Admitting weakness didn’t sit well with any of them and the traumatic brain injury he’d suffered seemed a weakass reason to have to take a medical discharge—but more than his vision had been affected. He dealt with the stress, and he moved on. It was all he could do.

The other man huffed a breath. “There’s a reason I advised you against taking this assignment.”

“And I had my reasons for taking it.” They’d argued point and counterpoint on this already and Jacko didn’t plan to rehash it. Too many of his friends and retired members of his team had found themselves on the sidelines of this particular issue—including Wagner’s sister who thought he was just in the navy and she had no idea about his second life.

Tex had.

Tex and Jacko both.

“If I’d known it would put you back in the action, I might not have told you.” A nominal way of saying he had regrets.

“I’m where I need to be,” Jacko replied, hoping he got the message. Playing with Coco was one thing, but Jacko would rather leave all that touchy feely shit to the others. “I’ve been out of the game long enough to not be recognized on sight, and even if they run a background—I’m not a good candidate for recruitment.”

“Man, that’s a great plan for a cover—except your cover is true. How’d you hang onto the package while you were out?”

Jacko cut his gaze to Coco. Her chest rose and fell in slow, even breaths. She was either sound asleep or giving a damn good approximation of it. “She watched my back.”

After a beat of silence, Tex chuckled.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.