No Surrender by Shannon Stacey

Author:Shannon Stacey [Stacey, Shannon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Suspense
ISBN: 9781605047430
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2010-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

Alex Rossi was pissed. As if it wasn’t bad enough his team was in freakin’ Matunisia—that he’d sent one of his guys blind into a guerilla warlord’s compound—now he had some soap opera shit going on with the guy whose game was pretty goddamn important to this job.

Whatever had happened between them while he and O’Brien were off making contact with a guy who wanted to sell very few explosives for very many American dollars, it wasn’t good. Carmen was emitting so much tension, Rossi was surprised she didn’t fry the electronics.

And Gallagher… He’d gone cold, and Rossi didn’t like that at all. Gallagher had shut parts of himself down and the team needed him at one hundred percent every second they were in this country.

Maybe he should lock them in the bedroom. Order them to have sex and not come out until the personal shit was laid to rest and they could concentrate fully on the job.

Probably not. But he had to do something. Even O’Brien was getting antsy and awkward around them, and that guy was hard to shake up. Having Gallagher take O’Brien’s head off his shoulders for not being able to read Donovan’s mind and explain why he’d gone off on the girl probably didn’t help. Which one to talk to, though?

It wouldn’t do any good to talk to Gallagher. Rossi knew where he stood. He’d been hung up on the woman for a long time and, after their jaunt through the woods during which he and Grace suspected a little extra R&R had gone on, she seemed to be shutting him down.

That left Carmen, so instead of going himself, he sent Gallagher with O’Brien to go over the helo to make sure nobody’d messed with it and figure out how to stow all the weapons they’d need.

Carmen had taken O’Brien’s seat in front of the computers. “The audio seems to be down. I can’t really make it out.”

“That happens. There are a couple of places in the compound where something interferes with the signal.”

She nodded, and he sat in the closest chair, not having the slightest clue what to say. He’d call Grace, but one look at his watch changed his mind. Damn time difference.

“So, this thing between you and Gallagher—”

“Has not affected my work.”

Rossi hadn’t gotten to his position by backing away from a sharp tone. “Yet.”

She swiveled her chair to face him. “I told him nothing’s going to happen here. If he can’t handle that and it effects his job, that’s his problem. And his lecture, not mine.”

Since the stern schoolteacher routine wasn’t going to get him squat, he changed tactics. “You know Grace and I were partners—and lovers—before.”

“Of course.”

“It wasn’t always easy, but it’s doable.”

“But your relationship ended when…you know.” Yeah, when he’d shot her and she’d disappeared, leaving him and the Group far behind her. “What if you’d ended your relationship and still tried to work together?”

Now he was getting somewhere. “I trust Gallagher to keep his professional and his personal crap separate.

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