Wild Lies by Tina Wainscott

Author:Tina Wainscott
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: female protagonist, military romance, vigilante justice, seal team romance
Publisher: Written Musings

Chapter 11

Rath sat with Neesa in the truck watching the store, but he couldn’t get their kiss out of his head. Which was bad because he needed to have his full attention on their surroundings.

His focus these last few years had been on missions and life and now finding Dan and the truth about the defuckle. He had no room or mind for getting romantically or even just sexually involved with a woman, and yet, here he was. With the perfectly wrong woman, a woman he was going to betray when he finally told her the truth about himself. About his own lies. She’d be rightfully pissed, and he expected any attraction between them to end right there. But the more involved they got, the worse it was going to be on her. On him, too, for that matter, but she was his main concern. He’d handled his fair share of disappointments and betrayals. What was one more loss? Not a death or career but a possibility.

He glanced over at Neesa, who’d been watching him again and turned away after a quick smile. She was the other knife in his heart, because if she opened up to him, he would be a knife in her heart. He couldn’t stand that thought.

Now he’d been looking at her, and he chastised himself and focused on the store. It was a busy place, people coming and going with their grocery bags and six-packs of Modelo and Carta Blanca. An old Chevy pulled into a spot several empty spaces away from the entrance, an aberration.

“Watch this guy,” Rath said.

A man in his twenties got out and looked around. He spotted the truck and their gazes met. They exchanged the yep, I’m the guy you’re here to meet nod, and he headed over.

Rath had positioned the truck so that he was on the side facing the lot and the store, protecting Neesa from direct exposure. As the man neared, Rath lowered his window with the crank.

“Rath?” the guy asked.

“Yep. And you are?”

“Silvano.” He held out his hand, and they shook. He peered past Rath to Neesa and gave her a nod. “You’re not authorities, right? I don’t want to put my cousin in danger. He doesn’t know I sometimes work with the government. He would never trust me again.”

Betrayal. The worst kind of transgression, especially toward family. “We’re not government, and we’re not here to give your cousin any trouble. Seems like he has enough on his own.”

“Si,” Silvano said with a somber nod. “That life is seductive. I hate it for him.”

“I get it.” Too much. “Family is the most important thing. Her father is why we’re here.”

Neesa leaned forward, close to him. “Thank you so much for putting this together.”

Silvano lifted his head as a scooter came into the lot. “That’s him.” He waved, and the tall, wiry guy with a bandana over his face pulled over to them. As he dismounted, his body language was more suited to someone getting off of a bad-ass Harley than a scooter.

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