Securing Piper: SEAL of Protection: Legacy, Book 3 by Susan Stoker

Author:Susan Stoker [Stoker, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stoker Aces Production, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Paul Solberg was escorted to his Porsche and followed until he was off the naval base property. He drove around aimlessly for an hour before ending up back at his house. He climbed out of his expensive car, not caring that he’d left the keys in the ignition, and stumbled up to the front door.

The house had also been left unlocked, but he didn’t care or notice. Nothing seemed to matter anymore. Not with his beautiful Kalee dead.

Paul slumped to the leather couch in the living area and stared sightlessly at the huge digital TV in front of him.

Kalee was dead.

And Piper Johnson…no, Piper Morgan, was alive and apparently very happy.

His fists clenched.

What right did she have to be happy when he was living his own personal version of hell?

He could just imagine her pushing Kalee out of the way of the hole she’d found because there wasn’t room for more than one of them.

And now she was married—and had adopted three children. Those kids could’ve been Kalee’s. If Piper hadn’t been the scared little mouse she always was, Kalee wouldn’t have felt the need to take care of her. She’d be alive today. She’d be married to some brave SEAL and adopting those kids.

Kalee had talked about all the girls at the orphanage in an email she’d written him not too long before her death. Had told her daddy all about how cute they were, how much she loved spending time with them, teaching all of them.

He should be a grandfather right now, not mourning the death of his daughter!

Paul’s mood swung from fury, to depression, to jealousy, then back to fury once more. He couldn’t stop thinking about the what-ifs.

What if it had been Kalee who’d hidden in the hole instead of Piper?

What if Piper hadn’t gone to visit his Kalee at all?

What if he’d forbidden Kalee to join the Peace Corps?

Paul’s head spun, and he felt sick.

He could see Kalee laughing in his mind—then he’d imagine what her dead body must’ve looked like. Filled with bullet holes and lying in the dirt in the fucking mountains of Timor-Leste.

Bringing his hands to his head, Paul couldn’t stop more tears from falling. His head felt as if it were going to burst. He was confused, and in the most pain he’d ever felt in his life. Both emotionally and physically.

He had no idea when he’d last eaten or showered, but those were the last things on his mind. He also hadn’t slept in more than ten-minute stretches in days, because he couldn’t stop thinking about his daughter’s last moments on this Earth.

He’d do anything to change places with her. To be the one dead, and to have her still here, alive and well.

As Paul sat in his quiet living room, on his expensive couch, amongst all the material things he’d accumulated over the years, one thing became crystal clear.

None of it mattered without his daughter.

An eye for an eye.

The phrase ran through his mind once more.

He’d meant every word when he’d told Piper it should’ve been her who had died.

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