Six Minutes to Midnight by Elle James

Author:Elle James
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-15T19:00:02+00:00

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T-MAC DIDN’T LIKE that he and Kinsley were trapped more or less behind enemy lines. He had to get her safely away from the terrorist camp and hunker down somewhere safe and out of sight until the helicopters could return to pick them up.

His night-vision goggles were useless with all the headlights lighting up the sky. But as long as they weren’t pointed directly at them, they could move without being obvious. If their night vision was compromised, so too would the terrorists’.

He checked his compass using a red-lensed flashlight and nodded in the direction they should travel to get away from the commotion. “Let’s go.”

“Wait.” Kinsley touched his arm. “Let Agar go ahead of us.”

“We don’t have time.”

“And we don’t have time to be blown up. You saw the mines were set out between one and two kilometers outside the camp. If they set them out on all sides, let Agar find them for us.”

“Okay, but we have to move fast. Right now they’re probably concerned about the larger group of SEALs. When they’re gone, they’ll have time to look for others. That would be us. We can’t let them see us, or our ducks are cooked.”

Kinsley laughed. “Ducks are cooked?”

T-Mac liked the sound of her laughter, even if it was only nerves. “You know what I mean.”

“I do, but ducks?” She laughed again but fell in step, moving hunched over.

They crouched as low as possible to the ground to keep from being seen or captured in the light from a moving vehicle.

Agar searched ahead, his nose to the ground, a silent shadow moving back and forth at the end of his lead.

So far, he hadn’t found anything, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t.

A loud explosion sounded from the other side of the camp. T-Mac’s heart plummeted.

“Oh, no,” Kinsley said softly.

“One of our guys stepped on a land mine,” Buck reported over the radio headset. “He’s in a bad way. Really bad.”

T-Mac stopped and cursed. He hovered between getting farther away and heading back to help his team. But he had an obligation to protect Kinsley. If he took her with him to help his teammates, she’d be in danger and might either be shot or captured.

“We have to go back,” Kinsley said.

Her words brought him back to reality. Even if he could get past the four truckloads of men entering camp, he couldn’t drag Kinsley into the middle of the mayhem.

“We can’t go back.” His jaw hardened. “My team will return to collect us after they get the injured to safety.”

“But Agar could have gotten them out without unnecessary injuries.”

“SEAL teams don’t usually have the benefit of a Military Working Dog looking out for us. However, we wouldn’t have made it as far as we have tonight without you and Agar.”

“I wish we could have kept that SEAL from stepping on the explosives.”

“We can’t second-guess our decisions. Right now we have to lie low and hope we aren’t discovered.” He kept moving, farther and farther away from the terrorist compound until they could barely see the individual headlights.

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