Tall, Dark and Lethal by Dana Marton

Author:Dana Marton [Dana Marton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-07-14T07:00:00+00:00

YOU’VE DONE MORE THAN enough, Cade thought. He stood to walk Joey outside. When they were through the door, he decided not to give the guy a matching split above the other eye as he’d been tempted to do for the past hour or so. He inhaled the cool night air. “Let me know if you hear anything. Going anywhere near my old hunting grounds?” he asked, not expecting much of an answer.

“Private mission.” The smile slid off Joey’s face for the first time.

Interesting. “Colonel knows about that?”

“Can’t put the team in jeopardy. If the mission goes down badly, he can say I went rogue.” Joey shrugged. “I have some off time. I’m using that.”

Cade understood. This was exactly why he had taken retirement. His final hunt wasn’t going to be pretty. Whatever he had to do to get his man, he would. And he didn’t want anyone else to catch flack for that. “Going after an old enemy?”

“Going after the woman I love.” Joey’s smile crept back.

Cade smirked. So Joey had been just busting his chops all night about Bailey. Good to know—for Joey’s sake. “That serious, huh?”

“Serious as a Daisy Cutter.”

The BLU-82B/C-130 weapon system, nicknamed Commando Vault in Vietnam and then Daisy Cutter during the Afghan war, was the largest conventional bomb the military had. As serious as business could get, with a nine-hundred-foot lethal radius. “She in trouble?”

“Stuck in a Darfur refugee camp near the Sudanese border. She’s an aid worker.”

“I thought they weren’t letting foreign aid workers into those camps anymore.” Violence was rising in the region again.

“She’s looking for the kids of a murdered friend.” Cade could hear the worry in Joey’s voice. “She got someone to fly her in, bribed the man in charge and was supposed to fly out the same day with the four kids. That was a week ago.” His face went dark. “Haven’t heard from her since.”

“Could be they confiscated the plane and she had to find another way back.” Cade said the only optimistic thing he could think of, knowing that the reality of the situation was possibly much grimmer.

“The Sub-Saharan Security Council is visiting the United Nations this week in New York, trying to come up with solutions. If they fail, if they don’t get the UN resolution they came for…”

He could tell from Joey’s voice that that was exactly what everyone in the know expected to happen.

“All hell is going to break loose.” Joey drew a slow breath. “The talks will end tomorrow. I have to get there before that and get her out.”

“You’ll find her.” Hell, if he weren’t in the middle of his own mess, he’d go with him.

“You better believe it.” Joey hesitated a moment. “She might be—”

“She’s not. She’s fine.”

“Not that. I think she might be pregnant.”

Wow. “Yeah?” He grinned at the kid, clapping him on the back. “Way to go.”

“I don’t know.” Joey looked dazed by the possibility. “She kind of hinted the last time we talked over the phone. I think she wanted to tell me in person, when we were together again.

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