Hard SEAL to Love (Uncharted SEALs Book 9) by Delilah Devlin

Author:Delilah Devlin [Devlin, Delilah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Military, Fiction
Publisher: Delilah Devlin
Published: 2017-02-13T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Five

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When the freight elevator doors opened, Jax was waiting on the other side. The service corridor was far different from the opulent ones the passengers used. Their group walked across gray linoleum past flat, gray-painted doors with black, block-letters defining the rooms’ purposes.

Kylie followed Jax and Mac. Her three helpers huffed and puffed behind her. She wanted to tell the two men in front to ease the pace, but Jax’s taut expression when he’d greeted them kept her silent.

As they moved, she admired Mac’s large frame, remembering everything that had happened between them in their cabin. She liked how he hadn’t treated her as though she were fragile. The soreness between her legs was something she reveled in, because she’d been a little afraid he might hold back given her disability. From the tightness of his grip on the sides of her hips when he’d orgasmed, she was sure she’d have bruises. He’d let himself lose control and hadn’t worried if she could take it. Alone in the bathroom, she’d blotted away tears of gratitude that he’d made her feel like a complete woman.

They went straight to Gray Water Storage. The door stood open. Captain Lundt was already there, along with Mike Espinoza, “Mickey D”, an active duty SEAL who’d been loaned by the Navy to augment security for the cruise. The men stood beside a ladder while a crewmember climbed to the top of one of the huge water storage containers lined up inside the room.

Captain Lundt’s expression when he turned to Jax and Mac was grim. “We’ve already taken this unit offline. The crew in charge of sewage treatment reported this vat was clogged when they tried to transfer its contents to the aerator. When they opened the top, we found him.”

Him? She barely contained a gasp. A death had occurred, and since his body had wound up here, likely a murder. The thing she’d dreaded, an attack against the men and women who so deserved a break, now seemed imminent. She prayed, selfishly, that the dead man wasn’t one of the military members aboard the ship.

After the container was emptied, the body was lifted from the vat and carried down the ladder to be laid on the floor. His gold and maroon uniform identified him as a cruise line employee.

Captain Lundt frowned. He pulled a cell phone from his pocket and snapped a picture of the dead man’s face. A minute later, his phone chirped. When he finished the call, the captain’s features tightened. “The deceased was a room porter on your deck,” he said, looking right at Kylie. “He had responsibility for your rooms,” he said, glancing from her to the three older men.

Kylie’s stomach knotted.

“So, the other attacks weren’t random,” Mac muttered. He scrubbed a hand over his face.

Jax shook his head. “All dry-runs. They’ve been looking for vulnerabilities.”

Mac glanced down at the dead man. “I’m assuming this man was asked to do something and refused.”

Captain Lundt turned to his men. “Get him into cold storage.

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