HOT Courage by Lynn Raye Harris

Author:Lynn Raye Harris [Harris, Lynn Raye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781941002674
Publisher: H.O.T. Publishing, LLC

It was after eight when they climbed into Noah’s Jeep to head home. Alice was sound asleep in her car seat, and Jenna was quiet as they drove toward Mystic Cove. The sun had set a little while before, but pink still tinged the sky in the west. It was a typically beautiful Maryland summer’s night, and Noah was feeling pensive and restless.

“I’m sorry we’re later than I thought we’d be,” he said. “I thought we’d be home in time to bathe her and put her to bed.”

Jenna turned toward him. “It’s okay. It was a fun evening. She’s sound asleep, so I’ll just put her to bed and give her a bath in the morning.”

“Did you like hanging out with everyone? Or should I put an X beside this activity for the future?”

He wanted her to like his friends. His brothers-in-arms and their women. It mattered more than he’d thought it would. He also wanted them to like her, but he thought he was good on that score.

“Your friends are great, Noah. The women—they made me feel like one of them. I think they were careful not to say too much, but I gleaned a little from the conversation. About what you do, I mean.”

“Oh.” He’d expected that might happen. Jenna wasn’t dumb.

“Haylee mentioned a jungle adventure the night she met Wolf, and a swim in a piranha-infested river. Not your typical meet cute.”

“Meet cute?”

“It’s the scene where a couple meets for the first time in a movie or novel. It’s not always cute, but it’s called that. I don’t know why.”

“Okay. Something I did not know.”

“Maybe read a romance novel or two. Or watch just about any Sandra Bullock film.”

“You mean it’s a meet cute when she meets Keanu on a bus that can’t stop or it’ll blow up?”

“Yep, you got it. Great movie, by the way.”

“Hell yes, it is. Set my expectations for the kind of girl I wanted to meet someday.”

She was laughing now. He loved hearing her laugh. “Oh, you wanted to meet the kind of girl who could jump a bus over a giant gap in a bridge and successfully land it?”

He aimed a finger gun at her. “Got it in one.”

“You’re hilarious, Noah Cross. But you didn’t distract me a bit. Haylee and Wolf met when your team rescued her from a jungle in South America.”

No use denying it. Jenna knew better because she knew more about the military than the average person. It’d be hard to fool her. “Yeah, that’s about right.”

“Not a Green Beret. Delta Force?”

“No.”

“What then? I’m at a loss.”

“Saint said this might happen.” He sighed. Saint had told him to tell her what he had to in order to make her understand. And to keep it quiet. “I can’t tell you much, but I work for the Hostile Operations Team. It’s a Black Ops organization that works directly for the president—much like Delta. You go around talking about it though, and you’re going to find yourself in a windowless room with a light shining in your face and some angry people interrogating you about your loyalties.

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