Valerie Hansen - Standing Guard

“Why me? I haven’t hurt anyone or stolen anything. I’ve never even had a parking ticket.”

“Then you should have called the police the minute you had a reason to,” Thad said flatly. “Doing it now will look suspicious.”

“It doesn’t matter because I’m not calling them.”

One dark eyebrow arched and he stared up at her. “Why not? There’s no way to tell if this mortgage mix-up is connected to the thugs who threatened you to keep quiet last night.”

She met his gaze boldly. “Do you think it’s separate?”

“No,” he admitted quietly, worried about Danny’s mental stress as much as Lindy’s. “I think you’re in the crosshairs of some broad-reaching scheme you have no idea about and everything that’s been happening to you goes with it. There. Satisfied?”

Though she did nod, Thad was sorry he’d been so abrupt. The woman was in way over her head. For that matter, it was starting to look as if he was, too, by making the decision to help her, but he wasn’t about to throw in the towel. No, sir. When a marine was given an assignment, he carried it out no matter the hardships.

At its heart, this task was no different than combat. They—he and Lindy—were facing an unidentifiable enemy whose methods were hidden and whose tentacles of influence reached far beyond what was visible.

The menace was real. Very real. And he was going to protect her. No matter what it took.

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