Search and Protect by Nichole Severn

Author:Nichole Severn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nichole Severn Books, LLC

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Three seconds. That was how long it would’ve taken to lose her.

The moment her attacker had turned the gun on her, Max had been lost. Consumed with a protectiveness he’d never experienced before. He’d gotten into this job—worked for Blackhawk Security—to make up for the past, to save as many lives as he could to balance his ledger. But seeing Emma at the end of that barrel… The memories that haunted him every night hadn’t even come close to the terror that’d gripped him.

“Have you ever shot someone before?” she asked.

Red and blue patrol lights faded as they pulled away from the scene. The son of a bitch who’d attacked them would live despite the bullet lodged in his arm. EMTs had cleared them both, officers had taken their statements. They were free to go, but Emma’s nightmare was far from over.

“No.” He’d never had to pull the trigger on the force, but he’d known a few good men and women who had. Understood the psychological effects of having to shoot a suspect. Pain didn’t only manifest in physical form, it took an emotional toll. “You gave him a chance to put down his weapon. He refused, and you did what you had to, Emma.”

“You don’t have to talk to me like I’m one of your victims. I don’t feel bad about shooting him, if that’s what you’re worried about. He was going to kill you. I…reacted.” Her tongue swiped across her bottom lip, homing his attention to her full lips. A nervous habit, he’d noticed. She turned that bright blue gaze on him, and every cell in his body combated the chill that’d settled deep into his bones since they’d had to dodge that first bullet. “I just thought as a cop, you might be able to tell me if I did the right thing—”

“By letting him live.” Not a question. He understood. Because Carter Hudson had hired a professional killer to tie up his loose end, and Max doubted the bastard would take a knee now. No. The senator would send another contractor, and another. Until the job was finished. Max wouldn’t let that happen. And hell, Emma had been so strong to fight back this long, so determined, so beautiful, he could only answer with the truth. “Back when I worked for Anchorage PD, I was assigned to be part of a missing persons case. A young woman had gone missing, and detectives had evidence her abductor had thrown her body somewhere in Lake Spenard. They needed me to find her. I was the only diver on shift, but I didn’t fight too hard when they asked me. I wanted to see her abductor’s face when I found her, make him face his crime.”

Tension tightened the tendons between his shoulders and neck, and he wrapped his grip around the steering wheel. “Took me less than an hour to recover her body. She hadn’t been in the lake long, but the damage done to that poor woman… It was like nothing I’d ever seen before.

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