Covert Risk – Jane Blythe

“I knew you were too smart for your own good. That’s exactly what I think. It’s why we’re going to circle down and around and then approach the mansion from the opposite side. They know you ran this way, so they’ll be looking over here, hopefully we can sneak past them.” Exhaustion was taking a heavy toll on her. When she’d opened her eyes to find that Christian was here, Lila had thought everything was going to be okay.

Instead, they were separated from his team and alone. Zara and Ross would have at least a dozen men with them, possibly more. Not good odds. Easing her off his lap, Christian shrugged out of his pack. “You should eat something and drink some water. I’ll check your foot then we’ll get walking again.” Taking the offered energy bar, she opened it and took a bite. It didn’t taste very good, but it was food, and she needed the boost it would give her.

“How long will it take us to get back to the mansion?” “I want to go far enough away that they aren’t expecting it. I’m thinking late the day after tomorrow. If we maintain this speed,” he added as he peeled off her sock and examined her foot to make sure her toes were still getting adequate blood supply. The prospect of spending two more nights out here in the forest, two more full days of walking was almost more than she could cope with.

Lila quickly took another bit of the energy bar, it was either keep her mouth occupied or burst into tears again, and she didn’t want to subject Christian to another crying jag. “Drink some water, sweetheart,” Christian prompted as he put her sock back on and then maneuvered her heavily bandaged foot back into the boot. Lila sipped unenthusiastically at the water, rubbing her arms, chilled now she’d stopped moving. Maybe she shouldn’t have run. If she’d just endured what Ross wanted to do to her, she would have still been in the mansion when Christian and his team got there.

The two of them wouldn’t be alone out here now. Although Ross and Zara probably would have taken her with them when they ran. And if she hadn’t been gone Christian wouldn’t have been chasing her, he might have been in the house when it exploded. “Take some more painkillers.”

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OceanofPDF.com TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter One Chapter Two Chapter Three Chapter Four Chapter Five Chapter Six Chapter Seven Chapter Eight Chapter Nine Chapter Ten Chapter Eleven Chapter Twelve Chapter Thirteen Chapter Fourteen Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen Chapter Seventeen Chapter Eighteen Chapter Nineteen Chapter Twenty Chapter Twenty-One Chapter Twenty-Two Chapter Twenty-Three Chapter Twenty-Four Book List About the Author OceanofPDF.com CHAPTER ONE October 13th 12:25 P.M. This sucked. Majorly. But with the threat hanging over his head Christian “Surf” Bailey didn’t see that he had any other choice.

Drawing in a deep breath, he forced himself to do this. Breaking Lila’s heart would break his right along with it, but he couldn’t let her know that. If he wasn’t strong and didn’t make a clean break of things, then he was painting a major bullseye on the woman’s back, and he’d rather break her heart than get her killed. Surf knocked on Lila’s apartment door and schooled his expression into a mask of disinterest. If he didn’t like the woman so much this wouldn’t be so hard.

When he’d met her, he’d been in the middle of a month-long sex binge. Falling for a woman had been the last thing he’d wanted. After he and his team—Prey Security’s Alpha Team—had been ambushed and held captive in Somalia, they had been beaten and tortured for two weeks before they’d been rescued. He’d found the only way he could cope with the mess of emotions and overwhelming helplessness the ordeal invoked was the high of an orgasm. Meaningless sex was all he’d wanted.

In and done as quickly as possible. Get the woman off, get himself off, then leave. He hadn’t even known the names of the vast majority of them. Hadn’t wanted to. It wasn’t about them, wasn’t even really about him, he just needed that high to survive.

Until Lila had changed everything. “Oh, Christian, hi. What a great surprise.” Lila’s sweet smile greeted him like a beacon shining a light through a pitch-black night. She might not know it—would likely never know it—but she was what had saved him.

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