Gunner (K19 Security Solutions Book 2) by Heather Slade

Author:Heather Slade [Slade, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sparrow Publishing
Published: 2018-09-16T18:30:00+00:00

He held her that way long after the sun had gone down. He stroked her back, kissed her forehead softly, and kept his arms around her.

There was no way for her to describe the way she was feeling, and she was glad he hadn’t asked. The closest she could get was to liken it to someone waking up from amnesia and seeing proof of the life they were just beginning to recall.

She knew from the brief Monk had shared with her that Petrov had ghosted and had taken her mother, along with everyone else that had been at the compound, with him.

There was no reason for her to believe Petrov would kill her mother now after keeping her alive for so many years. She also didn’t doubt he’d get word to her before she, Gunner, or anyone else from K19, MI6, or the CIA found him. He knew that he held the ultimate weapon to get Raketa to do his bidding, and he was right. She’d kill anyone who got in the way of her mother being safe, or she’d die trying.

“He wants his daughters,” she murmured. “That’s what he told me he wanted in exchange for my life.”

“You’re his daughter too,” Gunner whispered.

“Am I?” Raketa wasn’t so certain after seeing the photographs. In the few he was in, he seemed to intentionally stand apart from her and her mother. There wasn’t a single photo of him holding her. She hadn’t read through all of the letters, but she hoped they would provide some clue as to whether her suspicions were correct.

“If you want to know for sure, the answer is readily available, sweetheart.”

“I know.” A simple DNA comparison, which had likely already been performed, would confirm whether Petrov was her biological father or not. “Do you know?”

Gunner shook his head.

“Thank you.”

Gunner pulled his phone out of his pocket and pressed his thumb against the button to unlock it. “Here. Call Shiv.”

Raketa didn’t take the phone from him.

“Do you want me to do it?”

She rested her head against his chest and nodded.

“Before I do, I want to tell you about Doc and Quinn.”

She remembered that the man he referred to as Doc, Kade Butler, and his daughter, Quinn, hadn’t known whether he was her father. Ultimately, they found out he was, but the circumstances were so different than Raketa’s. Granted, if Kade hadn’t been confirmed as Quinn’s father, it would’ve meant that her mother’s rapist was.

For Raketa, the proof would simply tell her that she was the spawn of a man she considered the devil, or of a man who’d abandoned her mother once he knew she was pregnant. What good would knowing do her?

“I already know about them,” she told him when she realized he was waiting for her to say something.

“It’s your decision.”

Raketa took the phone from his hand and set it on the table. “It doesn’t matter.”

She looked back at the box longingly, wanting to know more about the life she could hardly remember.

Gunner must’ve sensed what she was feeling, and shifted her off of his lap.

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