Shattered (Triple Canopy Book 7) by Riley Edwards

Author:Riley Edwards [Edwards, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rebels Romance
Published: 2022-10-24T18:30:00+00:00

9

Without opening my eyes, I reached for my ringing phone on my nightstand, and without bothering to look at the caller ID, I answered.

“Yeah?” I muttered.

“Call out.”

Jesus.

“Fucking hell. What time is it?”

“A little after three,” my teammate Dalton informed me, sounding just as unhappy as I felt.

“Text me the meet-up.”

I was rolling out of bed when Dalton gave me more information.

“SWAT team’s in play.”

Jesus fuck me. A call out in the middle of the night was never good, not that it was ever a good time when my unit got called out, but really bad shit always happened just before sunrise. Add in a SWAT team and shit had gone sideways.

“Shiloh?” I asked.

“Sorry, brother,” Dalton mumbled.

Fuck.

This wasn’t the first call out I’d been on where my baby sister would be in attendance with her team, and I knew it wouldn’t be the last. But every time I rolled up to a staging area and saw her kitted out my gut knotted. It was a double-edged sword—she was excellent at her job and along with my brothers, there was no one I’d rather have at my back than her. The issue was it was her team that went in first. If Shiloh’s SWAT team was called in, she cleared my way.

“See you there,” I grumbled and disconnected.

I was pulling on a clean pair of cargos when Dalton’s text came through. Five minutes later I was in my truck driving to a Dollar General across town wondering how Griff was. He had yet to turn back into a teenage punk. Through dinner, he chatted animatedly while Wren watched him, with the saddest fucking look on her face I’d ever seen. She was smiling but there was an underlying sorrow I couldn’t miss. A longing that awoke something deep inside of me—a recklessness that I was afraid would end in disaster, but that I could no longer ignore. Desperation to shield her and Griffin from further pain.

Then there was that kiss, the one that never should’ve happened, but now that it had there was no going back. The damage was done. I’d taken a bite out of the proverbial apple, tasted how fucking sweet it was, and now I was hooked. So sitting through dinner with her next to me—Griff directly across from Wren, and my friends filling in the rest of the chairs—had been torture.

And not because of the kiss. Not because she’d all but admitted she was getting off on me giving her a ride on my back. Not because those long, sexy legs of hers had been wrapped around me. Not because my dick had still been semi-hard at the thought of her playing doctor. Nope, all of that had contributed to my painful evening, but it was the way her leg had rested against mine throughout the meal. We’d had to scoot close to make room for everyone, but Wren purposefully made sure we were touching. Not only that but twice she’d adjusted her napkin on her lap and allowed her hand to brush over my thigh.

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