Gabe (Steele Brothers #6) by Cheryl Douglas

Author:Cheryl Douglas [Douglas, Cheryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-04-26T22:00:00+00:00

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I was knocking on Kendra’s door when Lizzie wandered out on her porch. “You can knock all you want. She won’t answer.”

I turned to face my friend, knowing she was probably going to let me have it for being a dumbass. “I know what you’re going to say,” I said, raising my hands in supplication. “And you’re right, okay? I need to quit waffling and just let Kendra know that I’m all in.”

“I agree,” she said, crossing her own patch of grass to Kendra’s. She ascended the steps, sitting down on the porch swing. “So what took you so long to get your head out of your ass, anyway?”

I laughed, swiping a hand over my face. “Come on, give me a break, Liz. This falling in love thing is some scary shit.”

A hesitant smile tipped her lips before she said, “I guess it is at that.”

Inclining my head towards the door, I asked, “Where is she?”

“She had some training thing out of town. She’ll be gone for four days.”

Why the hell hadn’t she told me she was going out of town?

“It was a last-minute thing,” Lizzie explained, obviously reading my confusion. “She’d been on a waiting list for this seminar and someone pulled out at the last minute.”

“Is Char with her parents or Jason?”

“Her parents, of course,” she said, rolling her eyes. “Tell me something. How’d you ever get to be friends with a guy like that? You two seem so different.”

I leaned against the freshly painted white pillar, crossing my arms. “When you do what we do, putting your lives on the line every day, your differences don’t mean much. You have to trust that your team’s got your back no matter what. At the end of the day, we’ve all got the same goal: to get out alive.”

“I guess I never thought about it like that,” she said, shaking her head.

“But I’m not gonna lie. This thing between me and Kendra might make it tough for me and Jason to work together. It would suck because he’s good at what he does, but I might have to see about getting him transferred.” I couldn’t afford to have someone on my team whose head wasn’t in the game, or who would rather see me dead than have my back in a crisis.

“Sounds like that might be the best thing for everyone,” Lizzie said, tucking her hands under her denim-clad thighs.

“Where are your kids?”

“They had a play date,” she explained, checking her watch. “They should be home soon.”

“How’re things going with you and your boss?” From everything I’d heard about Mike, he was a solid guy, and if anyone deserved a good man in her life, it was Lizzie.

Her smile spread, lighting up her pretty face. “I don’t want to jinx it, but I think it has the potential to get serious.”

“I’m happy for you. You deserve this.”

“So do you, you know.” She looked up at me, her expression pensive. “You and Kendra both do. I’d hate to see you screw it up, or worse yet, hurt her.

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