Lambert's Lady by Susan Stoker

Author:Susan Stoker [Stoker, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Two

“Hello, Mr. James. My name is Slade Cutsinger. May I speak with you for a moment?”

Slade waited patiently a respectable distance away from the door he was standing in front of. He’d received the information folder the morning after his phone call with the former commander and had read every word, twice.

It wasn’t a lot of information to go off of—it was no wonder Greg had called him—but the picture of Dakota James had made his teeth clench and his hands curl into fists.

He’d never had as visceral a reaction to seeing someone before in his life as he’d had when he’d gazed into her green eyes. They seemed to grab him around the throat from the paper. She wasn’t classically beautiful, her facial symmetry was a bit off for that, but it was the happiness and glee he saw in her eyes that made him want to know everything about her.

The picture was from the latest yearbook from Sunset Heights Elementary School where she was the principal…or had been. She was wearing a dark blue suit jacket with a white blouse underneath. She had earrings in the shape of apples in her ears, and her dark blonde hair was in a bun at her neck. Her makeup was minimal, but still, her eyes were her best feature and needed no enhancement.

Slade had stared at her picture for a full ten minutes, shock holding him immobile as he memorized her facial features. He wanted to see more of her. Wanted to see her body, see how tall she was when she was standing next to him, talk to her—was her voice low or high?—touch her. He’d had a sudden and unmistakable reaction to her photo. What would it be like to actually be in her presence?

Thinking about what Dakota had been through made him growl low in his throat, which shocked him back into awareness of where he was and what he was doing.

He wanted her. It wasn’t rational, it wasn’t normal by any stretch of the imagination, but there it was. Slade wanted to see her smile at him. Wanted to see her eyes twinkle with joy as she looked at him. Wanted to see her eating across a table from him, and most definitely wanted to see her green eyes open and look sleepily at him from the other side of his bed.

Slade had looked at hundreds of dossiers, seen hundreds of targets, and not once had any ever affected him like Dakota James. He would make her safe if it was the last thing he did.

Intel about Dakota’s father had been included in the file he’d received from Lambert. He was in his upper seventies and living in a house just north of San Diego. Not sure if the man would give him any information about his daughter—he actually hoped he wouldn’t, that he was being extremely cautious about Dakota’s whereabouts—Slade had packed his saddlebags on his Harley just in case, and headed out.

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