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The meeting was set to take place at the supplier's warehouse. Adam had called them with the details as well as the information that he, Ezra Burns, and Lige Riddick would all be present. The takedown would happen with a support team from the Tampa office. Grey was already on the alert. Because of the listening devices he had placed in both the man's house and office, he and Athena knew exactly when he got the call, what his reaction was, and what he planned to do. Grey and Athena met the ATF team at the site a good two hours before the time specified, so they could all be in position. The core group had hidden around the warehouse and parking lot itself, the rest stood ready at another industrial site about a block away, prepared to move in on Riddick's signal. Grey had taken a private moment to do two things before they left the house, hoping he was wrong on all counts but he'd be prepared nevertheless. And he hoped Athena wouldn't be too pissed at him for not telling her. He h
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"It has to be someone from the ATF. No one else knew we were even going to be here," he reminded her. Suddenly, the gunshots ceased, leaving the night empty of all sound. Then voices and the sound of engines starting. "Should we go see what's happened?" Athena asked in a low voice. "No." He whispered. "Just stay here and follow my lead." He squeezed her arm then lay flat, face down, his hand and the gun in it slightly under the edge of the dumpster. He took one brief moment to reach inside his jacket and press a button. Over many missions he'd trained himself to pick up even the most muffled sounds, so he wasn't shocked when he heard footsteps approach quietly, as if whoever they belonged to was walking softly. Only one set. Figured. He kept his eyes closed when the person stopped right beside him. "I'm sorry," Riddick said. "I wish I could have figured out a different way to do this. Killing good people is never any fun." With the lightning skills he'd developed through
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Part Two: Mission Control"Thanks for the update. Yeah, I'll be sure they check in when they get here."Mason Rowell disconnected his call and leaned back in his desk chair. Heaving a sigh, he rubbed his hands over the scruff on his chin. He hadn't bothered to shave that morning. He'd only that minute gotten back from rounding up the strays and leaving two of the hands to repair the cut fencing. This was getting to be a damn fucking habit, and he was sick and tired of it."Nothing this whole year has gone right," he muttered. "First that damn woman, then the lost cattle, and now the fucking smugglers."He had the feeling a cloud had opened up and rained all over his life.And, yeah, it had all started with that woman. That female. Both of them half-looped in the hotel bar. Each of them searching for something—her for a way to ease back into civilian life after too much time in Afghanistan and Iraq, him to erase the memory of another woman who'd screwed him over. Badly. A woman he'
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"They are. Our own mission control situation. A six-man team led by some guy named Chris who was a member of the Nightstalkers and flew missions over in Afghanistan. Plus, all their equipment. They'll run a military-style operation right from here.""Nightstalkers?" Stick lifted an eyebrow. "I read about them. Those are some real tough guys. They'll take care of this shit.""Only the pilot is a Nightstalker," Mason corrected him. "But they are all former military. Different branches, though.""Well, whatever." Stick shook his head. "We need help bad, that's for sure. Where you planning to house them?""I told Grey Holden, one of the partners, sleeping quarters wouldn't be a problem. We haven't used the second bunkhouse in some time. It can also serve as their headquarters while they're here.""Good idea. That would have been my suggestion, too."Mason pushed himself up from his chair. "They can't get here a minute too soon to suit me." He glanced at his watch. "Which, according t
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Finally, the door on the other side of the chopper opened. The pilot leaped down to the ground and came around to greet Mason.Who nearly had a heart attack.Holy fucking shit. This was the team leader? Was this a joke of some kind?Standing in front of him was not the tough leader he'd expected, well-muscled and a hardened veteran of the battles in the sandbox. Instead, he stared at the woman who'd burned up his sheets in that hotel room a year ago. The one who wouldn't stay out of his dreams or his memory. The one he considered his omen of bad luck.Although her sunglasses partially obscured her face, there was no mistaking the delicate jawline or the body he'd explored every inch of. Lithe and slender, she came nearly to his shoulder. An Omega Team T-shirt fell softly against rounded breasts his hands had cupped and kneaded. Worn jeans clung to nicely curved hips and long, slender legs. High cheekbones highlighted an oval a face and a mouth with full lips—a face he knew he'd nev
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"I wasn't expecting, uh, mixed company," Mason told Kris. "Sorry, but this is nothing more than a big, open room with beds and some tables and one bathroom. My housekeeper cleaned it up good for the team, but it's not exactly a co-ed facility." He rubbed his jaw, wondering if he was about to put his foot in his mouth. "I can offer you a room up at the main house, if you want."The look she gave him could have frozen fire. "I bunk where everyone else does. I've been leading this team for a year, and we don't usually have first class accommodations on an assignment. So, thanks, but I'm good."She turned and headed into the bunkhouse with a purposeful stride. Mason couldn't help noticing the flex of the muscles in her ass as she walked and the straight line of her slim body. It took major effort on his part not to remember her naked and under him.Damn! What the fuck? He better get his mind out of his pants. Of course, if he hadn't been able to forget her in a year, what made him think
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He had an instant vision of Kris on horseback. With him. Seated in front of him in the saddle, her sweet little ass tucked up against his hard shaft, rubbing it as the horse trotted along. And if he didn't quit with those thoughts, he'd be in big trouble. He shifted in his chair, trying to ease the pressure in his jeans."Okay." Kris gave him a narrowed-eyed stare again. "Your turn."Mason unrolled the drawings he was holding. These people were all business, and they couldn't get started a minute too soon for him. He smoothed his hand over one of the maps, pressing down the corners."The Double R Ranch covers ten thousand acres and borders with Mexico here." He drew a line with his forefinger. "The Rio Grande is narrow enough to row across in minutes at that point, and certainly you can wade or swim it without a problem." He traced another line. "We spent a fortune installing barbed wire strategically enough to discourage people. We thought. But they just cut it. We fix it, and they
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They had finished reviewing the video they'd shot and were checking their still shots against it one more time when Kris called a halt for the night."I think we've got everything burned into our brains," she told her team. "We'll go out again tomorrow. This time, two of you will be on horseback. Lane, you'll ride in the chopper with your sophisticated laptop. We'll drop some sensors and see what kind of reading you get, checking out the area from the ground at the same time."Everyone nodded and made noises of agreement.Kris pulled a hoodie from her duffel, zipped the bag up again, and tossed it up on her bunk.Lane was at the table where he was back to working at his laptop. "Going somewhere?" he asked when she moved past him."Out for some air." She shrugged into the hoodie and tugged up the zipper. "Need to stretch my legs a little.""Okay. I should have the map set up in here by the time you get back. In the morning, we can discuss where we're going to place the sensors fir
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