SEALs of Honor: Dane by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Valley Publishing
Published: 2016-02-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

MARIELLE KNEW THE minute Dane woke up. Like an instinctive jolt to her psyche. By the time he walked into the kitchen her nerves were alive and singing. Damn, this man moved her in ways she’d never known.

She smiled at him as he walked in and laughed. “Good morning, sleepyhead. Did you have a nice nap?”

The snigger started behind her. And wrapped all around the room.

Mason patted the seat beside him. “Come sit young’un. Do you feel better now?”

Shadow guffawed. Dane walked right up to Marielle, reached down, picked her up and kissed her – thoroughly. Then put her back on her feet. She grabbed for the counter as her body sagged.

Masculine satisfaction shone on his face as he walked to the seat beside Mason and said, “I had a great nap – how about you?”

The men grinned and dove in as Marielle recovered enough to bring over the pan full of sausages to add to the huge bowl of scrambled eggs Shadow had whipped up.

She sat down beside Dane and served herself a scoop of eggs and a sausage. As soon as she forked up her first bite, a second sausage and a second serving of eggs landed on her plate. Dane calmly ignored her gasp, saying, “Eat. You don’t know when we’ll get the next meal.”

A horrible reminder that this wasn’t a holiday and wasn’t a group of friends enjoying brunch.

“Right.” Aware of the darker mood falling on the table but realizing it was necessary, she asked, “What are we doing now?”

“Hiding,” Mason said.

Her movements slowed. “What good does that do?” she asked in confusion.

“Keeps you alive.”

“But for how long,” she cried. “We have to go after these guys.”

“And who are you going to go after?” Mason asked quietly. “We’re looking for the guys who killed the professor.”

She stared at him.

“And if you have anyone to suggest we take a closer look at, then speak up so we can hunt them in cyberspace.”

She nodded, feeling better, and of course they were working on it. It wasn’t like they could sit here and babysit her for the rest of her life. Although she’d love that.

“Speaking of your Ph.D. committee, did anyone there help you get the position at Tenesco?” Dane asked.

“No, I got that job through Professor Michaels. His buddy worked there for years and was looking for a new grad student.”

Silence.

She cut a slice of sausage and popped it into her mouth. Then realized it was too silent.

“What?” she asked as soon as she swallowed her mouthful.

“Do you know other people that were friends of Michaels?” Shadow asked, his laptop now suddenly on the table beside him.

“James. Dr. Dennis James, who was killed in a car accident, was a good friend,” she said around a mouthful of food. “He died a few months back.”

More silence.

“Damn,” Mason said. “Why did we not ask you about his associates before?”

She shrugged. “What about who knows him at Tenesco, like Hudson? Or Dr. Hoerner, the guy who hired me, and his German associates.

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