Her Fierce SEAL: Midnight Delta Book 6 Read Online Free

fifteen-year-old girl with her long brown hair swinging and her eyes blazing with anger.
    “Rebecca, calm down, he doesn’t mean to hurt me.”
    “It doesn’t matter, Evie.  He is.”  She turned back to Finn.  “Don’t be selfish.  You need to promise to call her.”
    Finn was amazed that this girl, who had once been so quiet, was yelling at him and defending his mother.  He was proud of the work his mother had done with her.
    “You’re absolutely right, Rebecca. I’m sorry.  I promise to call her every two weeks, no matter what.  Will that work?”
    Her jaw jutted out.  “Once a week.”
    The corner of his mouth lifted.  “All right, once a week.  Will that work?”  Rebecca gave a short nod, then he saw her eyes fill with tears.
    “Hey, hey, what’s this about?”  He stepped closer to her.
    “I don’t want you to go, Finn.  I like having a big brother to talk to.”  He looked at the young girl, and his heart twisted.  Suddenly, the girl who had been on her knees in the farmhouse was superimposed on top of Rebecca.  He broke into a cold sweat and gritted his teeth.  He knew logically he was still in his mom’s kitchen and not back in time.
    “I don’t want you to go.”  Rebecca’s voice.
    “I’ll do anything, please let me go.”  It was the other girl’s voice.
    Instead of brown hair and brown eyes, he saw blonde hair and blue eyes.
    “Mom?” Finn called out.
    “Finn?”  His mom’s voice helped to steady him.  He blinked and was once again able to see Rebecca.  He tried hard to give her the best smile he could, but it was pathetic, and he knew it.  She looked up at him, confused, but then he held out his arms, and she hit him like a freight train.
    “I love you, Finn.”  Her love floored him.
    “I love having a little sister.  You are one of the best things that has ever happened to me.  I’ll make sure to talk to both of my best girls every week.”
    “You better.”  His mom came over and wrapped her arms around them.  He took comfort in it.
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    W hen he got into his car, there was a message on the burner phone. 
    Head to Austin, there is a project that needs your expertise.
    He tried calling Declan again and got his voicemail.  Figures.   His childhood friend was probably ducking his calls at this point.  What an asshole, he thought fondly.
    He looked out the rearview window into the back of his El Camino at the pitiful amount of stuff that he had packed.  He’d thought about putting his stuff in storage and getting out of the lease on his condo, but it seemed like too much of a bother.  What’s more, part of him really hoped he would be coming back to San Diego if he could ever get his shit together.
    He stopped at a gas station near the highway and gassed up the car and stocked up on water before heading east.  For the next four hours, he focused on traffic, until he got out of the more populated areas and hit desert.  Then his brain began to consider what Declan’s cryptic message might mean.
    He and Dec had been friends since grade school.  Both of their dads had worked together in Minnesota.  Now Declan was one of the founding members of a group called the Shadow Alliance. 
    Declan had his fingers in pies all over the world.  Finn regularly tapped Dec’s organization when he needed something for the Midnight Delta team.  It paid off having a network of far-flung friends.  Even though he hadn’t helped in the sex trafficking mission, Finn figured he had kept tabs on it.  When the man said he had a project that needed Finn’s expertise, he really hoped it was related to the missing babies.  Midnight Delta didn’t have the time or the resources to keep looking, and the longer the infants stayed missing, the more likely they would never be found.
    His fingers got sweaty on the wheel of the car.  His teammates had spent a lot of time working on this project in their spare time, but they had full-time jobs.  What’s more, it was