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was to fight evil and save lives even if that meant risking his own in order to do it.
    He had just about talked himself into focusing on his new, unexpected mission until he pulled up to the pickup point and saw Autumn waiting for him with Abigail. The woman was a hell of a lot more beautiful than a picture could show. Another instinct kicked in that made him not only want to protect this woman, but made him want to claim her too.
    He growled low forcing himself to get the dick out of his thought process and realizing this mission to protect her had just gotten a thousand times more complicated. Those legs barely covered by shorts that wrapped seductively around her mid thigh region made him want to have those legs wrapped around him. no, maybe he just wanted to discard her shorts and have his body wrapped around hers, inside hers. Thank the gods for a hot pass otherwise she probably would have been in jeans or something like it. He imagined Autumn had gotten her to their unit with haste so that meant she probably hadn’t packed the clothes herself. A South Carolina unit must have gone in and packed and whoever had done it must have missed the fact that some places were still trying to warm up. Thankfully, today this place wasn’t one of them. Today this place was already warm and that woman had it heading toward scorching hot.
    He shook his head. The low sexual haze was going to kill him if he didn’t get his mind out of the woman’s shorts.
    “We go now,” he said roughly. He noticed Autumn’s wide eyes and realized his voice had been military meets pissed off man. He was pissed at himself. As a Marine there is no way he should be letting desire get in the way of his thought process and he was going to, without hesitation, nip his need to take her body hard and fast before it endangered his or her life.
    “Well hello to you too,” she said in a sultry voice that was natural, yet somehow it held enough force to jumpstart his need to go primal male on her and for that he was even more pissed off.
    “Look,” he heard the roughness of his tone but he didn’t care. He couldn’t stop it and that, too, pissed him off. “Standing out here exposes you; it exposes her, and it exposes me, so unless you want to take a bullet in that precious head of yours get your ass in my car.” He had bit those words out like a commander over a battalion instead of in a sweet tone for a civilian woman who had probably never spent more than five seconds with a real military man.
    “I don’t have an ass—oh I assumed you were talking ass of the biblical persuasion.”
    His eyes narrowed his jaw started to tick and he knew he was ready to take her to task. He was not in the mood for any prim and proper lectures. The look on his face seemed to be making even Autumn’s shock level go up.
    This wasn’t his standard way of dealing with a woman—not unless she was under his command and he hadn’t had one of those for many years, even before he left his unit and retired from the Marines it had been a while since a woman was on his team.
    It may not have been how he usually spoke to women, especially a civilian, but It worked. Her eyes widened and he saw that look of fear in them before she hustled to the car like a scared kid. She got in the back seat and slammed the door shut. Autumn laughed. “I see you’ll be able to handle her just fine. Thanks Rhys. I know this isn’t your thing, but we need you on this. None of the guys in my unit can handle this guy. He’s…he’s different.”
    He nodded. “I know he’s killed some of the best of you. I know none of you have the skill to combat him. but I can’t make you any promises, Autumn.”
    “I know, but what you can give her is better than what any of us can. Stay safe. You know how to contact me.”
    He nodded and watched Autumn get in her own car. The driver was a young man he knew to have recently moved from Homeland Security and was now under her command in the Special