Special Ops Seduction
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Lindsay’s smile pained Julia, like someone had prized her ribs apart.
“Julia,” she began.
But when hell came, it came out of nowhere.
A bright, hot, terrible flash of horror.
They were both on the ground, dazed and stunned, and Julia lifted a hand to her temple, where she felt something sticky. But she couldn’t find her way to caring about it much. Something was wrong with her ears, her head. Something was wrong.
Car alarms were going off up and down the street, there was a siren in the distance, and she couldn’t remember how she’d gotten to the ground. She pulled herself to her hands and knees, grabbing for Lindsay as she went.
And they knelt there, hugging each other even though it hurt, and stared at the roaring fire where their childhood home had been.
Their mother. Their brothers. Even their father—
Julia couldn’t take it in.
Lindsay made a shocked, low sort of sound, like a sob.
And somehow, that crystallized things, with a wrenching, vicious jolt inside of Julia. Half panic, half resolve.
She turned to her sister and took her shoulders in her hands, ignoring the stinging in her palms.
“This is the other choice, Lindsay,” Julia said, her voice harsh and thick and not her own at all. But she would get used to it. She would grow into it. If she survived. And she had every intention of surviving. “But we have to choose it. Now.”
About the Author
Megan Crane is a USA Today bestselling and RITA-nominated author. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband.
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