by Mark Allen
“You made a promise, son. I’m just helping you keep it. Least I can do, given everything you’ve done, and everything you went through.”
They exchanged small talk for a few more minutes, then President Carter signed off to tend to the next national crisis on his schedule.
Kane left the briefing room and wandered outside. High clouds streaked the Texas sky as the setting sun set the heavens on fire.
The team had welcomed him back this morning, but now they were gearing up for their next mission. There was equipment to stow, weapons to check, and intelligence to analyze. They would deploy rapidly, meaning there was no time to focus on his return, and Kane was thankful for that. He was glad to be back, but he didn’t need anyone to make a big production out of it.
Right now he was alone, but not lonely.
He stood there and stared up at the sky as it darkened from orange to red to purple. As the stars began to scatter themselves across the celestial tapestry, he heard light footsteps approaching.
An arm slid around his waist, and he looked down at Cara. “Hey,” she said softly.
“Hey, yourself.” He slipped an arm around her shoulders. Their touch was somewhere between friendship and love, just like their relationship.
“I’m getting ready to go wheels-up,” Cara said. “But I wanted you to know that it’s good to have you home, Reaper.” She paused. “And this is your home. I hope you know that.”
“Yeah, I do.”
She stepped in front of him and put a hand on his chest. Even decked out in combat gear, ready to tangle with the latest cartel threat to pop up on Team Reaper’s radar, she was still achingly beautiful. Kane didn’t know what the future held for them, but he hoped that one day they could sort it out. Maybe when all the bullets and blood finally came to an end.
In other words, maybe never.
Her eyes searched his face. “Did you find what you were looking for?”
He nodded. “Yeah, I did.”
She lightly brushed her lips against his. “Glad to hear it.”
She walked away, off to kick some cartel ass, leaving Kane alone again.
His thoughts turned to the other woman who had managed to pierce his emotional walls. Luna would forever haunt his heart. You never forget an angel. Destiny had brought him to her, broken and scarred, and she had healed his pain and reminded him of who—and what—he was.
A warrior.
He vowed to never forget again.
--THE END--
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About the Author
Mark Allen was raised by an ancient clan of ruthless ninjas and now that he has revealed this dark secret, he will most likely be dead by tomorrow for breaking the sacred oath of silence. The ninjas take this stuff very seriously.
When not practicing his shuriken-throwing techniques or browsing flea markets for a new katana, Mark writes action fiction. He prefers his pose to pack a punch, likes his heroes to sport twin Micro-Uzis a la Chuck Norris in Invasion USA, and firmly believes there is no such thing as too many headshots in a novel.
He started writing “guns ‘n’ guts” (his term for the action genre) at the not-so-tender age of 16 and soon won his first regional short story contest. His debut action novel, The Assassin’s Prayer, was optioned by Showtime for a direct-to-cable movie. When that didn’t pan out, he published the book on Amazon to great success, moving over 10,000 copies in its first year, thanks to its visceral combination of raw, redemptive drama mixed with unflinching violence.
Now, as part of the Wolfpack team, Mark Allen looks forward to bringing his bloody brand of gun-slinging, bullet-blasting mayhem to the action-reading masses.
Mark currently resides in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York with a wife who doubts his ninja skills because he’s always slicing his fingers while chopping veggies, two daughters who refuse to take tae kwon do, let alone ninjitsu, and enough firepower to ensure that he is never bothered by door-to-door salesmen.
