Countermeasure (Shadow Team Book 7) by Lindsay McKenna

Author:Lindsay McKenna [McKenna, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Turtle Publishing Company
Published: 2024-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

A good kind of tiredness inhabited Jess tonight as she sat down on the wobbly stool in her mud house. They’d arrived back at the village two days earlier. Everything had gone well since, much to her relief. Eli had repaired the backhoe upon receiving its replacement hose, and good progress was being made on the ditch that would eventually carry the well water into the irrigation complex she had designed with the help and ideas from the villagers. While she’d been away in Bagram, Sean Anderson had had some of his men improve her hut’s entryway security. Not only had a more secure door been fitted, but there were also new, much stronger hinges on it. And, although there was no lock on the replacement door, they had installed a security drop bar made of thick wood that ran horizontally between the two huge metal hinges when engaged. The door opened inward, so the bar across it would stop anyone from entering much better than a mere door lock ever could. As Jess untied her shoes with her one good hand, she thought about how much better she’d been sleeping at night with this added layer of security in place.

There was a knock at the currently open door. She looked up. The one candle she had on the table shed just enough light for her to recognize Logan’s heavily shadowed presence standing in the doorway. “Come in,” she said, smiling up at him. He pulled his NVGs up onto his forehead and stepped inside.

“Got a minute?” he asked. Anderson had told him about the reworking of her door, and he carefully checked out the new, heavy wooden bar. The LT’s men had done a good job of making the door secure, including the new, heavier replacement hinges. He closed it, lowering the bar into place, satisfied that the hut’s single-entry point was a helluva lot better secured than before.

“Sure, I always have a minute for you.” She saw how serious Logan looked. What was the matter? Pushing her boots off, Jess pulled off her sweat-dampened socks as well, wriggling her toes, glad to let them breathe. “What’s going on? You look worried.”

Logan came over and put her combat boots down at the end of her sleeping bag for her. “How is your arm doing?” he asked. Jess looked like her old self. Logan knew that being back into her routine was helping her deal with the trauma. Tendrils of hair clung to her cheek, perspiration gleaming across her face. Her cammies were dusty. And he could see dust coating the strands of the ponytail between her shoulder blades.

“Oh,” she muttered, “it’s cranky. Nothing new.”

“Have you been taking the Ibuprofen?”

“Yes, Doctor, I have,” and she smiled because he was constantly on her like a broody old hen, making sure she was taking the antibiotics and Ibuprofen. He walked over and framed her face with his large palms. Logan was going to kiss her. How she’d yearned for exactly that all day long.

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