Soldier Protector by Kimberly Van Meter

Author:Kimberly Van Meter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-02-05T16:24:41+00:00

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Caitlin was freaked out. If the blanching of her face wasn’t a total clue, the fact that her eyes seemed permanently stretched in the wide, OMG look since he’d emerged from the garage was a dead giveaway.

“You should eat something,” he told her, watching her push her pasta around without having eaten a bite. “Gotta keep up your strength.”

She dropped her fork with a clatter. “This is not my regular Thursday night. I’m not accustomed to having strangers burst into my shower and try to murder me. I don’t know how to process this. And to make matters worse, said potential murderer is tied up in the garage in some disabled state awaiting this mysterious retrieval team. You can pretty much ascertain that this is some messed-up shit and it’s screwing with my brain—the brain, I might add, that is supposed to save the world. Yeah, not exactly hungry.”

Yep. She was freaking out. He wiped his mouth and said, “Yeah, if I were in your shoes, I’d be pretty overwhelmed, too. I wish the situation allowed time for you to slowly come to terms with the situation but honey, time is a luxury we don’t have. I know you’re not digging my methods—totally fair—but that guy in the garage might be our first real lead.”

“How’d you disable him?” she asked.

“I broke his ankles.”

She gasped, her hand flying to her mouth. “You what?”

“Best way to ensure he ain’t running anywhere,” Zak explained with a quick grin but when he realized she didn’t appreciate his humor, he sobered quickly. He had to handle this situation more delicately. Caitlin wasn’t like his buddies at Red Wolf, who should be arriving any minute, by the way. He could sense she was wavering on the edge of information overload. “Okay, that was a bad attempt at smoothing things over with humor,” he admitted. “But you’re right, that guy is dangerous and I couldn’t take the chance that he might get free before the team could get here. Your safety is everything. I’m sorry you think it’s savage but I’d do anything to keep you safe.”

She was more than just a job—helluva time to catch feelings, right? But when he’d seen the guy in the bathroom, knife in hand, he’d gone berserk. If Caitlin had suffered a single scratch, Zak would’ve ended him. Plain and simple. Yeah, bad time to catch feelings. He needed to stay focused. Now more than ever.

“I’m just struggling with everything right now,” she admitted with a scowl. “I need a minute to figure out where my head is at. Everything is mixed up and jumbled. One minute I understand the rhythm of my life and the next, I’m Alice in Wonderland falling down a hole and rabbits wearing ski masks are trying to kill me.” She sniffed. “Ski mask, so original. And whatever happened to poison as an acceptable way to kill someone? He was going to put that very large knife in my body. That seems a little more vicious than necessary.

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