Opal’s Fight (Special Forces: Operation Alpha) (Prey Security: Artemis Team Book 4) by Jane Blythe & Operation Alpha

Author:Jane Blythe & Operation Alpha [Blythe, Jane & Alpha, Operation]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2023-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

December 13th

4:54 A.M.

His head was killing him.

That was literally what it felt like.

As if his brain was trying to eat its way right out of his skull.

CJ knew he was lucky to have survived the explosion with little more than a concussion and some scrapes and bruises. It could easily have been so much worse: serious injuries, broken bones, internal bleeding, even death. Comparatively, he had walked away with as close to nothing as it was possible to get.

His memories of the explosion and its aftermath were gone, likely never to be recovered. The last thing he remembered was watching Opal and her team walk toward the warehouse and the titanic sense of failure he felt knowing not only couldn’t he watch his girl’s back, but he was the reason she was there.

Everything after that was a blank until he’d woken up in the hospital about an hour ago with a killer headache. A doctor to tell him he had a concussion hadn’t been necessary. This wasn’t his first, and he doubted it would be his last. The combination of headache, nausea, and dizziness were all the cues he needed.

Of course, his first words—croaked and weak though they had been—were to ask the nurse if anyone else had been brought in with him.

When the older woman replied that a pregnant woman had also come to get checked out, CJ almost had a heart attack.

Had Opal been hurt?

How bad?

Was this baby dead because of him as well?

It wasn’t until it clicked that if Prey knew Opal was carrying his baby, someone would have been in here waiting for him to wake up so they could yell at him for letting her put her life in danger, that he knew the nurse was talking about Ivory and not Opal.

Relief had hit him so hard and with such strength that he had actually passed out again.

Now he was awake and ready to get out of here.

Someone from his team would probably be okay with him staying with them for the next couple of days while he slept off the worst of the concussion, and then he might head out of town for a while. There were still a couple of weeks left of his leave so there was no need to hang around. Maybe clearing his head would help him and Opal.

To move on she needed distance between them so she could let go of her hurt and anger and focus on the baby.

Not that he expected her to be letting go of that hurt and anger any time soon. Not only had he been a complete jerk to her, but she didn’t even understand why. They both needed closure and time to heal, and distance seemed like the quickest way to make that happen.

“Sir, a woman is asking if she can come in and see you. Opal Smith she said her name was. Said you two are friends and she wants to make sure you’re all right before she goes home,” the nurse told him as she checked his vitals and fiddled with his IV.

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