W by Anne Leigh

Author:Anne Leigh [Leigh, Anne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Anne Leigh
Published: 2017-07-02T18:30:00+00:00

There were moments in life that defined the person you were.

Significant, priceless moments for which memories stood out in your mind.

The day my father died.

The day my mother smiled again.

The day I signed my life away to the Navy.

The day I signed my life back into the world.

Moments that make you up.

Memories that break you down.

Challenges that define your character.

I joined the Navy to preserve my father’s legacy.

I stayed in it because I found where I’d belonged.

I left because I had to –

But the skills I gained were engrained in my psyche, at my core.

So when something felt off, something was off.

In SoCal, the Santa Ana winds were caused by the high pressure in the Great Basin and the lower pressure off the coast. The wildfires that raged through the area typically occurred during Santa Ana wind events, when the offshore winds from the Northeast pass through the canyons to the mountains, dropping humidity levels and causing a rise in the temperatures.

These nuggets of data may not seem significant to most people, but to a former (yeah it still creates a fucking hole in my heart to say it) special ops guy like me, it’s extremely important.

Wind direction becomes paramount when you’re trying to protect a moving target.

As soon as I’d left Athena and her friends in the paintball field, the feeling in the pit of my stomach grew. She’d been wanting to have fun with her friend, Dyan, since it was her birthday, and I wasn’t about to get in the way of that.

She was more than allowed to proceed with what they had planned. Dyan had invited Liam and I, and Liam probably thought I was going to go negative, but I’d figured that Liam wanted to participate in the mock war game.

And it would give me a chance to closely watch Athena and ensure that she didn’t get hurt. Paintballs didn’t hurt until they socked you in an area of your body that wasn’t protected. Depending on the rate and distance of where you were hit, those pellets could hurt like a motherfucker.

“Boss, I got news for ya.” Tony’s voice cut through the line. Liam and I were in the northwest corner of the field, in an area that’s slightly elevated so we could keep a close eye on what was going on. Dyan had just been shot by her redheaded friend and she was making a commotion out of it. Commotion meaning she was pretending to kick her friend in the foot. Liam watched in amusement as he shook his head. For the life of my Sig Sauer, I’d never guess that Dyan had caught Liam’s eye, in a woman-I’d-like-to-sleep-with kind of way.

“Hit me,” I said into the phone. We would have been out there on the field with Athena right now, but I had to take this call from Tony – he’d texted ‘urgent’ just as I was parking my car.

“Dr. Bridges has been getting emails to his personal account,” Tony replied, the constant familiar buzzing around him was now a regular accompaniment to his calls.

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