by Dale Mayer
This time her voice was hopeful, but she waited for him to confirm it. He opened his arms, even though he was still sitting on Scott. She shook her head and gestured that he should stand up first. He nodded, and, rising, he walked over and wrapped her in his arms. He whispered, “It’s over, and now you get your life back.”
She reached up, kissed him and said, “I’ve got an idea. Since you’ve already saved my life several times, how about just looking after it from here on out?”
“Instead of me looking after it,” he said, “how about we share the responsibility together?”
“That works,” she said. “I just want to spend as much time as possible with you.”
“Ditto,” he said as he leaned over and kissed her once more.
Epilogue
Lennox Cummerbund landed just outside of Munich, Germany. He was meeting his sister, Carolina, for a couple days, hoping to get that much time with her before he got called on a mission himself, having finished with Keane’s assignment. As Lennox walked out of the airport, his duffel bag over his shoulder, he gazed around, looking to see if she had gotten in before him and was here to pick him up.
A couple days ago they’d made arrangements to fly into the same airport, roughly around the same time. He had her flight number on his phone but hadn’t had a confirmation from her that she had managed to catch it. As he walked through one of the lengthy areas of the airport, he saw the computerized flight board above. He quickly checked her flight info. So she should have gotten in about ten minutes before him.
He sent a text her way, saying he would wait outside the front doors near her baggage pickup area. They could grab a cab and head to her apartment that she had here. She was a Red Cross doctor and traveled all over the globe. Breaks off together were hard to come by.
She was his only sibling, and they liked to touch base, if they could, at least once a year. When Lennox received no responding text, he frowned, wondering if Carolina was still stuck on the tarmac, but, even then, they were allowed to turn on their electronics again. He waited inside now, at the luggage pickup. Carousels rolled through for her particular flight. She should arrive here at any time, and, indeed, a crowd had showed up.
He scanned the faces but found no sight of his sister.
His frown deepened, wondering if she couldn’t make it. He sent her yet another text; when that didn’t work, he dialed her phone number, and his call immediately went to voicemail. Shrugging, he sat at the exit, watching as people came and went. Maybe she got in on an earlier flight, or possibly she was still stuck in whatever godforsaken part of the world she had been in last. He thought it was Somalia.
And given the connecting flights that she probably had to take, she could have been stranded anywhere. Usually she’d send him a message, if that were the case. He checked his email while he was here, but still he had no word from her. Now he was starting to worry.
“Lennox?”
His gaze shot up as he studied the tall dark-haired man in front of him. “Gavin?”
Gavin reached out a hand, and the two shrugged, shook hands, and half hugged in a typical bro manner.
“Damn, it’s good to see you,” Lennox said. “Odd place, but then, maybe not. I hardly recognized you. You’re not in uniform, so you’re not here on business?”
“Oh, I’m here on business,” Gavin said. The smile fell off his face. “And I’m still in the military, just not the same unit.”
“Ah. A lot of that going on. I’m here visiting my sister,” Lennox said, holding up his phone. “At least I would be if I could find out what flight she’s on or where she got stuck. Her flight arrived, but she’s not on it.”
Gavin nodded, his expression turning serious. “That’s why I’m here.”
Lennox felt something inside him still. “Why?” He straightened his duffel bag at his feet as he glanced around. It seemed everybody suddenly moved slowly, as if only his world had sped up to the point where it all focused entirely on Gavin’s face.
“We have reason to believe she’s been kidnapped.”
This concludes Book 9 of The Mavericks: Keane.
Read about Lennox: The Mavericks, Book 10
The Mavericks: Lennox (Book #10)
What happens when the very men—trained to make the hard decisions—come up against the rules and regulations that hold them back from doing what needs to be done? They either stay and work within the constraints given to them or they walk away. Only now, for a select few, they have another option:
The Mavericks. A covert black ops team that steps up and break all the rules … but gets the job done.
Welcome to a new military romance series by USA Today best-selling author Dale Mayer. A series where you meet new friends and just might get to meet old ones too in this raw and compelling look at the men who keep us safe every day from the darkness where they operate—and live—in the shadows … until someone special helps them step into the light.
Planning to meet his sister in Germany, but, when she’s a no-show, Lennox has his first inkling that trouble has come home in a big way …
When his sister and her best friend go missing, Lennox is determined to find and to keep his only family member safe … and her best friend. They were both doctors, traveling the globe with the UN. Lennox was proud of his sister’s accomplishments. He’d never tried to hide their relationship, thinking no one from Lennox’s Navy SEALs past cared—or was still alive. Only now someone has decided to use Lennox’s only family as a way to exact revenge.
Helena is caught up in a kidnapping of Lennox’s sister, all designed to get back at Lennox—the most infuriating man she’s ever met. And one she’s cared for since forever. Now to know she was used as a trap to kidnap his sister and to take him out was the worst kind of punishment. But she knew this man. Knew him intimately—if only once—but also knew he was coming to rescue them, even if it meant losing his own life.
Lennox wasn’t letting the only two women in his world be taken out without a fight, … especially one who didn’t even know how he felt …
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KEANE: THE MAVERICKS, BOOK 9
Dale Mayer
Valley Publishing Ltd.
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