Don't Look Back--An Unbroken Heroes Novel by Dawn Ryder

Author:Dawn Ryder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

CHAPTER FIVE

Vitus was driving the SUV when he and Saxon returned to the military base. Thais enjoyed the way the marines looked at her with confusion.

Let them wonder.

It wouldn’t be the first time or the last that they found themselves dealing with situations they didn’t get officially filled in on.

She knew what it felt like.

Today though, what filled her thoughts was how empty she felt. With Pullman dead, the case would likely go cold. Oh, she didn’t think for a moment that Carl Davis was going to stop trying to close the Shadow Ops teams down. No, they knew too much about him for that.

But their focus would shift back to Carl.

So, it was over.

Do you want it to continue?

Thais knew what the question was really about. She climbed into the SUV with her teammates and tried to push her thoughts back into the place she’d had them locked away before Dunn had broken her out of Homeland.

Before you gave into your needs?

Yes, and shut up!

“From Dunn,” Greer said quietly. Her fellow agent laid something in her lap. Thais opened the small case to see a Lynx.

It was over.

Or maybe it didn’t have to be. She’d thought Dunn had managed to rip into her walls before. Now? She realized she was wide open because the Lynx was like a red-hot coal just waiting to burn her.

She shut the case and dropped it beside her on the seat. Saxon was watching out of the corner of his eye. Even with his shades on, she knew him well enough to know when he was observing her.

Thais looked out the window.

She refused to need anyone besides her team. Her badge was her identity by choice. Besides, Dunn wasn’t the sort of man a woman domesticated. She’d always known it. Better to end it now, before she let him any deeper into herself.

It was over.

And that was the way it had to be.

No matter how badly she wanted to second-guess herself.

* * *

Dunn checked his phone.

He never had a shortage of messages. His email files were bursting after two weeks of his attention being on other things than his empire.

Text messages had piled up as he fell behind on emails.

Phone messages? Check that, too. He had a nice accumulation of those waiting for him as well.

But he didn’t have the message he was waiting for.

“Ignoring me, Agent Sinclair?”

“The Lynx can’t be traced.”

There was a delay before Thais responded.

“Nothing is foolproof.”

Dunn grinned.

“Like your rule about never getting involved with any of your lovers? Nice of you to give me hope, Thais.”

“You’re the recluse.”

“Some would say we’re well-matched.”

Dunn waited but Thais didn’t reply. He found himself grinning at the challenge she presented and from the sheer enjoyment of knowing she’d failed to ignore his present. She was no stranger to brushing off men she wanted nothing more to do with.

“That’s a good look for you,” Miranda said as she came into the sitting room. “Someone has made you happy.”

Dunn checked the rest of the room.

“We’re alone,” Miranda confirmed.

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