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"I didn't expect to see you for a while yet. I thought you were all wrapped up in some big project."Athena stirred sweetener into her coffee and blew on its steaming surface, studying her friend over the rim of the cup. Under normal circumstances, even for a casual meeting like this, she knew Shannon made sure she was pulled together, neat jeans and a tailored blouse, thick blonde hair in its French twist, makeup in place. A habit she never seemed to break. Except today, when she had just thrown on an oversized T-shirt and jean shorts, hiding the curves so many women envied. No makeup. Hair scraped back in a utilitarian ponytail. Worry lines bracketed her eyes and mouth and deep shadows sat beneath her hazel eyes. All of this created a high degree of concern in Athena. She'd never seen her friend this scattered, a definite sign something was wrong here.Shannon took a careful sip of her latte. "I am. I'm on a deadline, and you know how I get."Athena hadn't seen Shannon for a few w
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Athena and Grey hadn't spent a lot of money setting up The Omega Team offices. She'd contributed part of her retirement fund she'd cashed out at the police department, but the bulk of it had come from him, a nest egg left to him by his best friend killed in Afghanistan. They lived in the little two-bedroom house in West Tampa that had been Lucky's, comfortable and low maintenance. For the agency, though, they'd purchased an old warehouse in a commercial district. They'd walled off half of it for offices. The other held their sophisticated electronics and communications center. She'd told Grey when they had it set up she thought he might be able to run the entire country from there."Not so funny," he'd said, one corner of his mouth kicking up in a grin.Setting up their relationship had been a little trickier. The sex had been there from the very beginning, but they had both been in the business long enough to know if you didn't handle things right, the sex could be the kiss of death
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"I have just the agent for you," Grey assured Shannon. "He won't even look at you as a woman. I promise.""No?" Shannon had a brief flash of manic hysteria. Not look at her as a woman? "Is there something wrong with him?""Not at all. He's just the consummate professional. Polite, alert, ready for anything."Athena nodded. "He served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. If I tell you it burned out much of his soul, I know you'll understand. He's been through some very tough times, a lot of which he continues to deal with, and he's still isolating himself from people on a social level. We have no idea how dangerous this person we're dealing with here is. Or persons, for that matter. If I were in your situation, Owen Cormier is the one I would want watching my back. Also my front and every area around me."Shannon felt a stab of sympathy for the man she hadn't even met yet. She had to wonder if he was anything like—Stow it. He's gone and you'll never see him again. Time to move alo
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Owen Cormier turned off the ignition in his truck and sat back in the driver's seat. He had parked to the side of the long, low warehouse building, away from the few windows the place sported.So if they don't see you, there's still time to run?Maybe, he told the voice always chattering in his head. Ever since the last mission in Central America, the voice had been with him all the time. He and his team had fought a bloody battle taking out one of the most vicious drug cartels in operation, a group funding terrorists on a global platform with its income from the sale of its merchandise. It had been his third tour and time for him to get out.But to where? That was the question plaguing him. He had no home to go back to. He'd enlisted right out of college twelve years earlier. His parents had divorced—bitterly and very messy—so he had no so-called family nest to return to. He hadn't formed any lasting personal relationships because he didn't want to take the baggage off to war with him
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Owen stared at the woman, remembering every inch of her small yet curvy body. The jeans and oversized sweatshirt she wore couldn't hide the lush dips and swells he remembered. Her mane of blonde hair he remembered tumbling around her shoulders and brushing his chest and abdomen she now had pulled back into a severe ponytail. Her eyes were still the same shade of iridescent green, so amazing they dominated her face. Her skin he'd missed every inch of held the translucent quality of a pearl, and, even without lipstick, her mouth called for attention.He felt as if he'd been poleaxed, his breath trapped in his lungs but his cock threatening to break out of his fly. Emotions he had long thought dead and buried tried to claw their way up from oblivion.Damn it all, anyway. How could he take a job when the client had given him the best night of his life and she'd be better off without him? Right now, he wanted to throw her on his bed and ravish her for hours then lock them both away against
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"Lead the way." Owen's words were cryptic, the only thing he said as they got ready to leave.Shannon drove from The Omega Team headquarters to her house with Owen following in his truck. After their meeting broke up, he and Grey had huddled behind closed doors in Grey's office. She had been relieved as well as frightened when both Athena and her partner had taken her situation seriously.There hadn't been an opportunity for them to talk in private. Not that he seemed the type to make conversation. At headquarters, he had used an economy of words, asking terse but important questions and absorbing the answers. And the night they'd been together, all the talking he'd done was to whisper to her every kind of erotic, dirty word she could imagine and then some.Throughout the entire meeting today he sat not even moving a muscle. Except for the one empathetic gesture when he'd touched her arm. Somehow she didn't think Owen Cormier had an empathetic nerve in his body. She curious what his
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"No." He nearly spat the word. "But it doesn't mean I don't want to strip you naked and fuck you every way possible. You…touched me in a way no one else ever has. If I let you get close, I'd destroy you."Shock immobilized her. Had she heard him right?He lifted his hands and slid them away. She felt the loss of contact at once and wanted to grab onto him, so stunned she could barely breathe or move. Did he say what she just thought? Holy shit!"We need to discuss my conversation with Grey. I'll take that water now." One corner of his mouth twitched in a hint of a grin. "Unless, of course, you plan to use it as a weapon."Shannon looked at her hand and realized she was clutching the bottle in a death grip."Oh. Sorry." She thrust it at him. He walked into the living room and dropped into the big armchair, the one across from the fireplace.Just like that? As if he hadn't dropped a small bomb between them?She hoped when she handed the water to him he didn't notice the slight t
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The company Grey sent over to work on the alarm system impressed Owen, and not much did. They went about their business very in an efficient manner, as if they'd done all this a hundred times. Which, he guessed, they probably had. But his assignment as well as his habit of ferreting out every bit of information had him asking about a lot of details at first."I don't want you to think I'm questioning your ability or work," he told the crew chief. "But I'm responsible for the safety of the woman inside, and I want to make sure I know everything about everything to help keep her safe.""Gotcha," the man said. "Ask away. No problem."He watched them diagram the miniscule lot on which Shannon's house sat and mark the best places for the sensors. Next came the optimum locations for the cameras. Last, they showed him the new master controls to be installed along with a monitor Shannon could set somewhere in her house to give her the view from all the cameras.A house, by the way, which t
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