Take to the Limit by Dawn Ryder

Author:Dawn Ryder [Ryder, Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Published: 2017-08-28T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

“He’s going to throw up on you.”

Saxon Hale only sent his wife, Ginger, a smirk. “If he does, it’s because he wants more breast time.” Saxon looked up into the face of his son and grinned. “Just like his daddy…”

Ginger rolled her eyes before reclaiming her baby from her husband. “Keep your dirty jokes away from my baby.”

“That won’t help,” Vitus Hale offered from where he was scraping his dinner plate. “You breed with a Hale, it’s in the DNA.”

“Ah…” Ginger sighed. “Such a romantic word … ‘breed.’”

Saxon stood up and wrapped his arms around her from behind. “You loved every second of it,” he said and grunted as she sent her elbow into his side.

“Don’t you two have an office to get to?” Ginger asked him.

Saxon shrugged. “More of a hole in the ground at the moment. We might actually have an office by next year.”

“She’s going to say it’s too high-class for the likes of us,” Vitus informed his brother before he carried his plate to the sink and offered Ginger a two-finger salute.

Saxon’s phone buzzed. He pulled it out of his pocket and flashed the incoming number toward Vitus. “Kagan knows we’re slacking off…”

Vitus slowly smiled as he flipped the phone the bird. Saxon answered with a half snort.

“Morning, sir.”

“Servant and Sinclair got their man and the local PD is pissed.”

Kagan might have been reading off his grocery list for all the emotion he allowed to seep into his tone.

Saxon wasn’t fooled by it, though. He knew his section leader enough to realize Kagan was a master of making sure no one knew what he was thinking.

“Should I expect them soon?”

“Yes,” Kagan said as he let out a rare, frustrated sound that made Saxon frown. “They’re bringing company.”

“What sort?” Saxon’s tone snapped Vitus’s attention back toward him. There were few things that got under Saxon’s skin and his brother knew whatever was bothering him was something to take very, very seriously.

“The girl and her family,” Kagan said. “And before you start listing the reasons why it’s such a bad idea, let me cut you off by telling you I agree.”

Saxon took a moment before asking his next question.

“So why is Magnus bringing them to my location?”

Vitus stiffened, his expression drawing tight with disapproval. Saxon shared it. In a very personal way. His family was there and every person who knew about the location of the future command center was a potential leak.

“Because I also agree with Colonel Magnus,” Kagan said.

“Bram went to his daddy?”

Vitus’s eyes widened.

“No,” Kagan retorted. “But just as you’re digging in because of your parental instincts, the colonel came to me because the man who snatched the girl was on post with Bram. It was personal.”

Saxon let out a low whistle. “That’s bad.”

“Exactly,” Kagan said. “If the colonel allows them to go to witness protection…”

“It will leave a trail,” Saxon finished for him. “One that could lead back to my location.”

“Right,” Kagan said. “Keep them there until I can find another solution to satisfy Colonel Magnus.

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