Kiana’s Hero by Elle James

Author:Elle James [James, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Twisted Page Inc
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

For the first fifteen minutes of the drive to Joe Akana’s place, Dev wallowed in the black cloud he hadn’t allowed himself into for a while. Talking about what had happened on his last mission with his SEAL team and Mack’s subsequent suicide brought back the heaviness he’d experienced at the time.

The overwhelming feeling of doom that had plagued him for months and had made him walk away from the only job he’d ever known and loved returned in full force.

“Hey.” Kiana touched his arm. “I’m sorry if I brought back bad memories.”

Dev shook his head in an attempt to climb out of the darkness the memories brought with it. He was in Hawaii with a beautiful woman he’d made love to all night long. If he’d learned one thing, life did get better after the bad times. He needed to focus on the good times back then and the good things to come. “It’s okay. I can’t change the past or bring back the people I lost, but I can remember their spirit, the good times and how much we cared about each other. I lived for a reason. Not to repeat the past, but to forge a new future.”

“Helping others,” Kiana added with a gentle smile. “Like me and Meredith.”

He nodded, hoping he did manage to help her and her friends. They hadn’t gotten very far with what they knew. Joe Akana needed to give them something they could sink their teeth into.

They entered a neighborhood that had seen better days. The houses were dilapidated, needing to be stripped of their peeling paint and repainted. Some should have been torn down and rebuilt.

What they found at the address they’d been given wasn’t much of a house but more like a hut of tin, plywood and concrete blocks. Metal chairs stood on what could loosely be called a porch with a sagging deck and an equally sagging, corrugated tin awning.

As Dev pulled into the gravel driveway and shifted into park, a grizzled man with dark skin and graying hair pushed the torn screen door open and leaned against the rotting doorframe. “Don’t bother getting out,” he called out. “Ain’t buyin’ nothin’. Ain’t got no money, anyway.”

Kiana was out of the car before Dev. “We’re not selling anything,” she said with a smile. “Are you Mr. Joe Akana?”

“Don’t know about the Mr., but yeah, I’m Joe. Who wants to know?”

“I’m Kiana Williams,” she said. “I’m looking for a friend and hoped you could help.”

“Don’t know how. I’m sure I don’t know your friend.” He lumbered across the rotting deck and eased into one of the metal chairs. “You’re wasting your time.”

“I really hope I’m not wasting my time, Mr. Akana.” Kiana stepped closer. “My friend might be in danger, and I’m not sure where to turn.”

He looked past Kiana to Dev. “Your boyfriend not helping?”

Her cheeks turned a pretty shade of pink. “He’s helping by being my bodyguard. Some dangerous people have already hurt others looking for my friend. I need to find her before they do.

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