Torn in Half by Samantha A. Cole

Author:Samantha A. Cole [Cole, Samantha A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, military, suspense
Google: 1nWiDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B07V9JJSBN
Publisher: Suspenseful Seduction Publishing
Published: 2019-08-19T00:00:00+00:00

9

Marie glanced around the guarded, walled-in compound, as she and Jocelyn followed Albano from the main house across a well-maintained lawn with beautiful landscaping—another sign of his wealth. They approached a small building that appeared to have been made with thick, concrete blocks and had no windows she could see. Bringing up the rear were Antonio and another goon, as Ian would probably call him—either that or one of his favorite “twat” words. She couldn’t wait until his child was old enough to start repeating everything he said; Marie was going to just sit back and laugh. Although she usually rebuked her sons whenever they cursed in her presence, she knew it came with the territory of being a Navy SEAL and private security operative. Once you’re exposed to something, over time, it tended to become a habit. And, sometimes, a situation just called for a swear word or two.

Everyone at Trident was trying to curb their foul language by having a “curse jar” on Colleen’s desk, but whenever she’d been visiting and seen it, the darn thing was always full of $10 bills. She’d bet anything most of it had come from Ian. At least the money was going to a good cause, helping veterans with PTSD get support dogs.

One of Marie’s other acts of charity, that her sons didn’t know about, although Chuck did, was performing facial reconstructive surgery on veterans who’d served in Iraq and Afghanistan and been disfigured from shrapnel or bullets. Many of them couldn’t afford it, and military benefits only went so far, so she donated her time and expertise through a non-profit organization one of her medical school friends had founded a few years ago after her own daughter had been injured in combat. It was Marie’s way of paying it forward, since Ian, Devon, and Nick, and their teams, had survived their tours relatively intact—aside from Ian taking a bullet to the chest during an ambush while still in the Navy. Marie did the surgeries in honor of God or the powers that be who hadn’t taken another one of her children. Losing John had devastated her family, and Marie never wanted another one of her sons to die before her. No parent should have to go through that, but, unfortunately, it’d happened, and despite her grief, she’d remained strong for her husband and surviving sons—especially Nick, who’d still been in elementary school at the time. And, now, she would stay strong until her “boys” came to her rescue—that included all the Trident operators, counting Lindsey, who she doubted would take offense at the informal male moniker. Marie would do what she had to in order for her and Jocelyn to remain alive. If that meant performing surgery under duress, so be it.

The thought of doing a lousy job on whomever was going under the knife had crossed her mind a few times since last night, but her personal and professional codes of ethics wouldn’t let her. That didn’t mean she wouldn’t

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