Search and Rescue by Nichole Severn

Author:Nichole Severn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nichole Severn Books, LLC

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Every move.

Sienna had tracked—been aware of—every move Patrick had made as he’d fought off the marine. Corporal Mark McCann. Police had identified their attacker a little over an hour ago after dragging him half-conscious from her hospital room. She closed her eyes against the memories. In the moment, terror had threatened to paralyze her, but Patrick had held his own. Dread curdled in her stomach. She’d almost lost another client. Lost him.

And there was still a target on his back.

“You okay?” Warm brown eyes centered in her vision, missing nothing. Thick muscles flexed down his arms as Patrick traced the bruise along her jawline. Calluses pulled at her skin, the ache growing stronger, but she didn’t move away. No matter how many times her brain screamed, warning she should. “You took a few good hits back there.”

“That’s my job.” She took a deep breath to control her rising blood pressure. His touch... Damn, he felt good. Warm. Comforting. Exactly what she needed. Her mentor had trained her for every contingency, physical or otherwise, but she hadn’t expected to want Patrick’s touch as much as she did in this moment. Need it. When was the last time she’d let someone touch her like this? She’d had boyfriends, even an engagement to a fellow soldier a few years back, but this...this was different. Heat seared through her with a single swipe of his thumb across her over-sensitized skin.

The adrenaline rush had worn off almost instantly after the fight with Corporal McCann. The sensations rushing through her now had nothing to do with the fact she could’ve been killed back there and everything to do with the man sitting beside her hospital bed yet again. Another shooter could come through that door any second, and she imagined the situation would play out exactly as it had the first time. Patrick moving between her and the gunman. Putting his life at risk for her even though he’d been the intended target. He was a good man. And he was going to make some other woman very happy someday.

That last thought soured in the back of her mouth. Hell, she wanted to kick her own ass for even thinking about it. The rules were clear. No fraternization between operative and client. So what if he found someone and settled down? Didn’t have anything to do with her. He deserved it after seventeen years of service to his country. He deserved to be happy, to finally dictate his own life instead of following orders. And after she wrapped up this case, she’d probably never see him again. “The hospital staff wheeled me out of there so fast to restitch my wound, I didn’t hear if the police got anything from McCann.”

Patrick dropped his hand to her forearm resting on the bed, careful of the new tube full of saline needled into the back of her hand. He nodded, those fingers still very much sliding against her skin. “He’s not talking, but the gun they recovered from your last room matches the casings left at the scene on the bridge after I was run off the road.

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