Protecting the Future (SEAL of Protection Book 8) by Susan Stoker

Author:Susan Stoker [Stoker, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2016-01-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Dude woke up suddenly and lurched forward, choking back a cry. “Holy shit,” he whispered into the chilly night air.

“You all right, Dude?” Wolf asked from beside him.

Dude ran his hand down his face and tried to clear the all too real images from his brain, and noticed his hand was shaking. His hand was fucking shaking. He was the unflappable one. The one who took things in stride. The Dom who was always in control. But at the moment he felt anything but strong. “No,” he answered his friend.

“Wanna talk?”

No, Dude didn’t want to talk, but he did anyway, thinking maybe it’d help him get back on track. “I dreamed Cheyenne had the baby.”

“That’s good, right?” Wolf asked, propping himself up on his uninjured elbow and keeping his voice quiet so he wouldn’t disturb the others.

“Yeah, but right after she was born, Cheyenne looked up at me, said she loved me and to make sure the baby knew how much she was loved by her mom, then closed her eyes and fucking died. Right there in front of me. I could hear our baby crying in the background and everything.”

“It was just a dream, Dude. You’re stressed about not being able to be there,” Wolf said, trying to soothe his friend.

“Yeah, a dream. But it seemed too fucking real.”

Wolf didn’t know what to say to that. They both had seen some crazy shit in their lives, things some people would say were impossible. Because of that, they both knew that maybe Dude’s dream wasn’t so much a dream as it was foreshadowing. Finally, he told Dude in an earnest voice, “I’m doing everything I can to get us home.”

“I know.” Dude rubbed his hand down his face once more, feeling the beard that had grown in the weeks they’d been gone. Changing the subject, he asked, “How far north should we go?” Dude knew as well as Wolf that they needed to gain higher ground and find a good place to dig in and defend themselves. If push came to shove and they got into a firefight, they’d eventually lose, simply because they didn’t have enough ammunition to outlast the insurgents. Their best bet was to hunker down and stay undetected long enough for Tex, and the government, to send in another chopper to get them the hell out of dodge.

“How far north?” Wolf repeated. “As far as we can. It’s unlikely we can stay under their radar forever, especially since they could have thermal imaging and there are seven of us. If it was only one or two of us we could probably stay undetected, but we can’t leave Benny and Abe alone, and I can’t do much with this broken arm, so we have to stick together.”

“As if we’d break up,” Dude snorted.

Wolf smiled grimly. They both knew there was no way in hell they’d ever leave any of the others behind. They were too close to do that, and besides, they’d been trained way too well.

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