Dagger (SEAL Team EAST Book 6) by Zoe Dawson

Author:Zoe Dawson [Dawson, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Moon Creative
Published: 2025-04-14T00:00:00+00:00

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Quinn woke to the utilitarian room she’d been assigned back at the hotel compound. Her arm barely hurt, a dull reminder that she was still here, still breathing, still alive. The numbness of the pain meds was doing its job. The world felt muted, as though someone had turned the volume down on reality, leaving her with only the echo of her pulse and the persistent ache threading through her body. Suddenly she sat upright. Dagger’s presence lingered in the air like a fierce, protective shadow.

She turned her head to find him sitting against the wall, his knees drawn up and his head bowed into his hands, not even aware she was awake. Minute cracks split her heart, the memory flooding her:

The nurse had just finished bandaging her arm, and she heard the commotion. Alarm surging through her, she’d jumped off the gurney and barely remembered leaving the room. She’d caught sight of him, his face contorted with a raw, unhinged desperation, green eyes blazing as he tore around the corner. Two men she recognized as Bondo and Easy chased him, determination in every line of their big bodies as they caught up to him.

He’d almost thrown away his career, his reputation, everything, just to protect her. Her heart thudded at the realization, a pang equal parts warmth and dread. If the team hadn’t intervened, if Dagger’s fists had connected with Langford’s face, the consequences would’ve been impossible to undo. Yet, in that moment, he didn’t care. All that mattered to him was that she had been hurt, and Langford was the designated punching bag who had let her down.

Her reaction had been instant. She’d swallowed the tight knot in her throat, and tears had burned behind her eyes, because she suddenly saw him, truly saw him, in all his facets. The unstoppable SEAL with the lethal training. The man who’d once removed her children from her care not to punish her, but to save her, and them, when she had spiraled into grief. The brother who lost Brian but still blamed himself for not being able to keep him alive.

The image of him struggling against his brothers’ grips, consumed with the raging need to protect and avenge her, had left an indelible mark on her memory.

For a moment, Quinn thought of the carnage he would’ve caused if they hadn’t restrained him. He might have destroyed Langford in one swing, might have trashed his own future in a blinding second of rage. All for her.

The sheer weight of that realization pressed down on her heart like a tidal wave. This beautiful, volatile man, powerful, furious, damaged, was also the man who would never let her fall alone.

It was so clear. She could hardly stand the enormity of it.

She knew who she was now.

Dagger had given her the truth to understand, not with words, but with every action, every sacrifice, every time he stood between her and danger. With that truth, with the clarity of finally seeing herself through eyes that neither judged, nor pitied, she craved him like no other man in her life.

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