Lawson & Jill: Romantic Suspense (Night Storm Legacy Book 1) by Caitlyn O'Leary

Author:Caitlyn O'Leary [O'Leary, Caitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Passionately Kind Publishing, LLC
Published: 2020-10-30T18:30:00+00:00

Jill shivered. Everything that was feminine inside her melted at his words, but her brain worried.

“Lawson, you know you can’t be responsible for another person, don’t you?”

He clutched her closer. “I can damn well try. I can do it right this time.”

Jill closed her eyes and rested her forehead on his chest as she snuggled closer. Her heart was close to breaking for this good, strong man. He hadn’t told her the story of Xavier, but she’d known he’d harbored guilt, and this proved it.

“Ash tried to tell me that he was the one who should have seen the signs. That he should’ve been able to stop him.” Law’s low laugh sounded anguished. “He’s so wrong. It was me. I was the last one to talk to Xave.”

Jill curled her hand around the back of Law’s neck. It was warm and damp to the touch. God, she wanted to bring him solace, but she knew the best thing she could do was to get him to talk and then listen.

“You’ve never really told me about Xavier.” Jill didn’t say anything else, she just waited.

“Xave never talked about it. It wasn’t until after he was gone that Ash and I dug it up. We had to figure it out, ya know?”

Jill nodded. When he didn’t continue, she realized he didn’t see her because he was staring off into space. “I know. So, what did you find out?”

“The mission was classified, so nobody was supposed to know exactly what happened for him to get the medal, but Ash’s SEAL team buddy, Kane got the file. Xavier was recce. He liked it that way. Hell, that’s what he did for Ash and me whenever we pulled some prank as kids.”

“What’s recce?”

“Reconnaissance and surveillance. He would scout out ahead for his team. Keep them safe. He’d take care of any problems so that the rest of the team could have safe passage.”

“Got it.”

“They were tasked to take a hill. Goddamn hills will get you killed because the enemy has the high ground. But Xavier had his buddy, Tom. They’d been together since boot camp, and they were up for the job. But it ended up being a trap. They didn’t know it, but they’d been sold out by one of the Afghan fighters. He’d arranged for the Taliban to take the team’s flank, so while Xavier and Tom were hundreds of meters ahead of the rest of the group, the Taliban was sneaking up behind their team.”

Jill had heard about the loyalty and fierceness of the Afghan fighters, and she couldn’t believe they had betrayed Xavier and his men. “What happened next?”

“Since Xavier and Tom were a sniper team, they made their way back down the hill and started to pick off the Taliban, but then they started getting shot at from the enemy at the top of the hill. It was a bloody mess. A medevac couldn’t come in with all the Taliban snipers. Xavier and Tom kept them at bay for five hours.

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