Havoc by Shannon McKenna

Author:Shannon McKenna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oliver-Heber Books

17

Mace felt as shy and awkward as a teenager asking a girl to dance. Not that he’d ever really experienced that. There had been no dancing at the GodsAcre, certainly not on that bad last year when things got apocalyptic.

And after the fire, well. That had been a long, dark tunnel of the soul, best not thought of at all. He had considered desperate things, to escape from how he felt, but he’d never tried to follow through. He couldn’t do that to his big brothers. Or Otis.

Eventually, he’d gotten to the other end of that dark tunnel. He’d even survived Shaw’s Crossing, somehow, and high school. He’d joined the Marines. Otis’s suggestion.

Not that there was anything else he was fit to do, after Jeremiah’s intensive training. He didn’t have Anton and Eric’s crazy, quirky gifts. Just the skills he’d learned up at GodsAcre. Warcraft was the only thing he was extremely good at.

He let Cait into his quiet, empty apartment, locked the door and turned to her.

“Thanks, for that,” she said.

“For what?” he asked. “You’re the one who’s helping me. You finally brought that bastard’s agenda into focus. We know the stakes. And with your tracer, we can finally make a move. Actually thwart that motherfucker. Maybe draw him out. That’s progress.”

“That’s what I’m thanking you for. I’ve been doing this alone for so long.”

“You’re good with my family,” Mace told her. “They respect you. And like you.”

Her smile made his chest tighten. “I like them, too.”

He loved the elegant shape of her luscious lips, curling up with the corners. Those tiny dimples, and the deeper ones in the middle of her cheeks. “It’s no small thing, getting approval from them,” he told her. “They’re a strange bunch.”

“Do they usually disapprove of your girlfriends?”

“I don’t think I’ve ever introduced anyone to them. To be honest, I’ve never really done the girlfriend thing. My life didn’t have space for that.”

“Never? She laughed. “Really? Come on. Squeeze your memory.”

“Really,” he said. “I’ve been on the move, mostly. First with the Marines, then Force Recon, then with Trask Executive Solutions. My brothers and I got out of Shaw’s Crossing as soon as we could. Eric got into trouble here with Demi’s dad. It almost got him killed, or sent to prison. Both options were on the table. He ended up in the Bay Area. Anton traveled the world as a DJ, and then opened his nightclubs. And when I came home to visit Otis, I came alone. I didn’t want that damn curse to land on anyone else’s head.”

“I see.”

“Then there was GodsAcre,” he went on. “The cult, the violence, the fire. It’s all so fucking extreme. Who wants to lay bad cards like that on the table? So I never did.”

“And then I showed up in your cave,” she said.

“You cut through a lot of red tape for me, all at once. Chop-chop.”

Cait hung the coat Fiona lent her onto the hook. “So you’re hard to get close to.”

“Not for you,” he said.

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