Hot SEALs: Love & Lagers (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Liz Crowe

Author:Liz Crowe [Crowe, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2016-10-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Lainey sat with her hands clenched tight in her lap, staring, unseeing at the computer screen in front of her. She’d barely slept the rest of the weekend after the unbelievable encounter with Owen. Mortification mixed with satisfaction combined with worry and was all tied up with a pretty bow of stress by the time she hit the office early on Monday morning. She was both pissed off and embarrassed by the way he’d acted. As if he’d hated it, she thought more than once.

As if.

Jerk.

She leaned into the keyboard when she heard Jon and Zane come in the back entrance.

“Hey, gorgeous,” Zane called out, making her bite her lip and bite back tears.

“Morning, Lainey,” Jon said. “Please try not to sue us for sexual harassment. You’re pretty invaluable around here.” She looked up to see them, her handsome, over-the-top masculine bosses. Men she now trusted more than she had anyone in her life.

“Hey, what’s wrong,” Zane asked coming around the high counter and tugging her to her feet. As he gripped her upper arms, she felt an odd lightening of stress at the realization of his concern for her. She slumped and dropped back into her chair. Zane crouched down in front her. Jon leaned over the tall counter. Both men had legitimate worry in their eyes. “Did somebody hurt you? We didn’t even hear you leave Friday.”

“I know,” she said, waving a hand and trying to pull her act together. “No, nobody hurt me. I did…I did a really dumb thing. And I’m in regret mode right now, I guess.” She stared down at her hands, clenched tight again in her lap. “Don’t mind me. We have work to do.” She grabbed a tissue, blew her nose, and turned away from Zane to face her computer screen.

At that moment, an email message hit her private inbox. She knew it was that one because she only kept it on her phone since private email servers weren’t acceptable on her high-security level work computers.

With a sigh, figuring it for a bill collector, she grabbed the device and swiped it open. As her eyes took in the words, and her brain processed who it was from, she gasped and sat up straighter.

Zane had wandered away from her and was sorting through the day’s messages on his tablet computer. Jon had disappeared into the office he shared with his former SEAL compatriot turned business partner. Face burning, she glanced around, relieved to see neither man had heard her. She put the phone down with a steady hand and got back to work, unwilling to acknowledge what that message meant.

He’d found her, the bastard. And if he’d found her phone, it would only be days, maybe even hours, before he figured out how to get to her.

When Owen came in, he grunted a reply to Zane and Jon then closed the door behind him in his tiny work cubicle. Five hours later, while she was saving a presentation Jon had put together

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