Hijacking Holiday (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) (Special Forces & Brotherhood Protectors Book 8) by Heather Long & Operation Alpha

Author:Heather Long & Operation Alpha [Long, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2020-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“Show up. Find Rampal. Debate an approach. Don’t get dead.” He ticked each item off on a finger then shook his head. “That’s not a plan, Holly.”

Nor was the fact that instead of being in the café with her, he was parked on a roof talking to her over a comm channel. Instead of walking with her and holding her hand, he had to shadow her. Instead of being at her side, he was overwatch and laying flat on the rooftop with a sniper scope allowing him to see but no rifle to fire.

Not a good plan.

“Relax,” she answered him, covering the movement of her mouth as she lifted the cup of coffee to sip. She’d taken a seat inside the café, but near a window so he had a good visual on her. There were a handful of occupied tables in the courtyard outside of the café and fewer still inside.

She stood out, despite the scarf covering her hair and the demure posture. The fact she softened her shoulders, rounding them ever so much, kept her chin down and seemed to shrink a little into herself ground against him like a sore tooth he couldn’t leave alone. It was the job. Ned recognized it. Holly couldn’t be Holly when she worked.

Though she skimmed the street with a glance, she wore an almost insouciant air and seemed to divide her attention between her surroundings and the book open in front of her. The sweat on his back left his clothes clinging to him uncomfortably, but Ned focused on her, the street, and the people around. She’d just finished her first cup as when a man who been leaning against the corner across the street and reading a newspaper made his way inside.

“Interrupting a good book should be a crime, but do you mind if I join you?” His accent was modified British, the cool southern urban tones washing out any distinctive region.

“Is that Rampal? Two fingers for yes, one for no.”

“Please,” she murmured, taking an actual beat to look up, as if she needed to finish a sentence before she flipped it closed with two fingers. “Books are good companions, but they’ve already made their conversational decisions.”

The man across from her smiled. Despite the effort, his expression didn’t change. From his angle, Ned embraced a firm dislike.

“Rampal’s changed his appearance. Plastic surgery maybe?” His murmured words weren’t going to get a response, but he wanted her to know he was right there.

The other man laid his folded newspaper on the table and turned over the cup in front of him. Without reacting to Ned’s words, Holly lifted the pot of coffee and poured him out a measure of the spiced beverage. While he’d been a little envious earlier, Ned wished he was at the table because there was an itch between his shoulder blades.

Rampal seemed to be studying her. The reality that he could recognize Holly even with the hair change, the deeper tan, and the scarf wasn’t lost on Ned.

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