Wounded Courage (Lucky Thirteen) by S.M. Butler

Author:S.M. Butler [Butler, S.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Military Romance, navy seal romance, new adult romantic suspense, new adults, s.m. butler
Publisher: Soaring Phoenix Press
Published: 2014-06-02T04:00:00+00:00

Murphy

We pulled into the small storage lot in Chula Vista in the middle of the afternoon. I was tired. I didn’t sleep well on planes. Flight time usually meant missions, so my body was trained to get keyed up during flight. And after Chris woke up, he and Addison spent the rest of the trip bickering with each other. When they weren’t arguing about something or another, I would close my eyes and see Addison happy with Alex Giroux, and the anger I felt would bombard me so loudly I couldn’t sleep.

I shouldn’t have let it bother me. She had every right to have a relationship with whomever she wanted. I didn’t expect her to save herself for me or to not think about her future and marriage and family, but I couldn’t stop the possessive feeling inside me that didn’t want her to be with anyone else. I’d spent so long ignoring these stupid feelings for her that having let them surface for only a few hours was torturous. I couldn’t ignore them anymore. It was like trying to repack a suitcase after a long trip and not everything fit back inside the damn thing and it was a marvel that the suitcase closed in the first place.

We stopped outside the unit Addy named, and got out of the government Suburban. Addison fingered the locket around her neck, rolling her bottom lip between her teeth. Her eyes darted around us, taking in everything, like she was expecting something to happen.

Hardy frowned at his sister. “What’s wrong?”

She cleared her throat. “It’s just… No one but Alex and I have ever seen what’s in here. It’s weird, I mean, that he’s not around anymore.” She swallowed hard, having obvious difficulty with it. “I wonder if that’s how he really wanted it.”

Hardy glanced at me, and then back to his sister. “Do you love him?” Both of us whipped our heads around in surprise. How did he know? I couldn’t read him, couldn’t tell what was going through his head at all. Was he angry? Upset? Happy? Ecstatic? He cleared his throat and added, “Alex Giroux. Do you love him?”

I resisted the urge to exhale in relief. He didn’t know. I turned away so I could give myself a second to recover without him seeing when I heard her voice. “That’s… complicated.”

Complicated? Complicated why? Because she did love him and didn’t want to say that in front of me? Or because she didn’t and admitting it would be like admitting she’d made a mistake? It still surprised me that she was involved at all, and had been for a year, because she’d never made any of our watch lists. But I had a feeling that Master Chief had been the reason behind that. He’d known about her since she’d met Giroux.

“Addison, can you never just answer a question?” Irritation pinched Hardy’s brows together.

Her gray eyes flared with anger and she opened her mouth to retort. I stepped between them. “Let’s just get

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