Harlequin Superromance January 2018 Box Set by Janice Kay Johnson

Author:Janice Kay Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488085529
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

THE MOMENT WYATT climbed into the E-B4 Advanced Airborne Command Post, he was bombarded with visual images from several large monitors giving live reports from DC, CIA Central Headquarters in Langley and Kabul.

“Our situation has changed. We have new intel,” Freeman said. “The mission has been moved up forty-eight hours so forget DC, we’re headed straight to Kabul. You’ll be briefed on the way there, and hit the ground running.”

Wyatt’s unhappiness with the update must have been obvious, because Freeman told him to go put his duffel in the last sleep cabin on the right, hit the head, get a drink then be ready because they weren’t stopping until he knew every aspect of the plan to extract Chopper from the target, then burn that target to the ground.

Although his wasn’t the only mission being orchestrated on this beauty, Chopper’s extraction was priority one.

As he walked through the huge jet, the ratio of uniforms to civilians was about equal, although he was pretty damn sure the civilians were all CIA. There were brass from the Army, Navy and Marines. Wyatt was probably the only person completely out of his element.

He took Freeman’s orders literally, and by the time he was seated in front of a computer that was so advanced it made his head spin, he was already acclimating to the world he’d known for years. Now he had to catch up quickly on the operation.

“Earp, that you?”

He looked up at his screen, from where he’d been studying the map of the target. “I’ll be damned,” Wyatt said. “If it isn’t Whiskey Eye himself.”

“How you doin’, bro?”

“Good. A little out of touch, but once you’ve been through hell—” he began.

“You’re in hell forever,” his old friend finished. “Chopper’ll be real glad to see you.”

“Yeah. I’m counting on it,” Wyatt said, not at all sure that would be the case. Being held by the enemy for that many years without a ransom demand or a trade offered was rare as it comes. The last man left behind, that they’d known was alive, had been out for six long days in rough territory. Sadly, a couple of SEALs had fallen during that extraction. No one who’d been a SEAL ever forgot the creed. No Man Left Behind. But it was a special kind of agony to be the only one who made it. He wished he didn’t have the experience to back that up.

And dammit, he could afford zero time dwelling on that.

The briefing, which should have taken a couple of days, was like a Hell Week all its own. He wasn’t used to this shit anymore. Yeah, he could tell you the exact inventory of the bar, but what he had to absorb before they hit Kabul was almost crippling.

To make matters worse, he kept thinking about Cricket. About how she hadn’t said anything about herself in her hard-hitting speech. He still wasn’t sure he was doing the right thing. For Adam’s family, for Cricket, or his own redemption.

Topping that off was his lack of confidence that Chopper really was alive.

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