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bedroom above. He wished he could join them. He loved Daisy as a friend and knew if she wasn’t gay, they’d be more than friends. Daisy had an idea he felt this way, but pretended she didn’t. When his cell phone beeped announcing a text from the home office, he was almost glad.
    He read it, grabbed his laptop and flipped it open. He had emails from the office. The four of them were needed quickly. Two aid officials and a U.N. soldier had been captured by Somali pirates. He was directed to meet in Mogadishu with the rest of the team. They had Intel, a location and a raid planned for midnight Somalia time.
    He glanced at his watch. It was two-forty-five in the morning here in Greece. Somalia-time was two hours later, so it was four-forty-five there. He better get going. Traveling out of this remote location took some arranging. Before rounding up the team, and interrupting Daisy and her friend, he called in a request for a helicopter to meet them in the landing field next to the house.
    Then he started texting Gopher and Blackberry. When he’d sent out the alerts to the two men, he tromped up the stairs to get Daisy. He was still rushing with the effects of the run and the kill he’d made in the mountains. Daisy would be disappointed. He knew she’d hoped to run tomorrow night.
    He stood outside her door grinning. He didn’t hear any activity inside. Maybe they were done. He knocked got no answer and knocked louder.
    â€œGo away, House,” she called. “I got company.”
    â€œNo shit,” he yelled back. “Cover up, I’m coming in.”
    He heard rapid movements from inside and grinned thinking about the two naked women in there. When he pushed the door open, they were both huddling under the covers. He pointed to his phone. “We got orders to move. Get dressed.”
    Immediately, Daisy was all business. “Got the message, House, uh…give me a minute, will you?”
    Still grinning, he backed out and shut the door. He’d snagged a partial shot of one of Daisy’s perfect breasts. She did have quite the rack.
    The other two members of the team were sitting in the living room when he went back down. “What we got, House?” Berry asked.
    He lifted one eyebrow. “Somalia, a rescue or a recovery. Could turn out to be either one.”
    Berry groaned. “Not Somalia? We need to nuke that place and just end the misery.”
    â€œCan’t, too many innocent people, and you know it’s strategically located right on the Gulf of Aden. We need it.”
    â€œScrew the Gulf of Aden, too,” Berry snarled.
    â€œWho got snatched?” Gopher asked.
    â€œAid workers; an American, a Brit and a Swede. So we’ll have U.N. soldiers with us and the Brits will toss in a team.”
    â€œWhere’s Daisy?” Gopher asked.
    House looked up.
    â€œShe got a chick up there?”
    House nodded.
    Gopher groaned and grabbed his crotch. “I’d kill to be the meat in that sandwich.”
    Berry laughed. “She wouldn’t ever. She looks at you like you was a cockroach.”
    Gopher rubbed his hand over his stiff hair. “A man can have dreams, can’t he?”
    â€œDream on, little brother, she’d chew you up and spit out little pieces,” Berry said and laughed from deep in his belly.
    Daisy emerged from the stairway seconds later, saw them laughing and slapped a hand on her sidearm. “You laughing at me?”
    They all jumped up. “No, Daisy, we wouldn’t.”
    House picked up his gear, his armor, his M-4 and his bullet belt and shouldered his bag. “Let’s go. We got work to do.”
    A Little Bird landed on the grass in an open area beside the house. They climbed in and rode to Ioannina. They landed at the airport and moved on to a Company jet. The Leer jet was kept in a hanger on the outskirts of the small international airport. They loaded into the jet and took off for the