Hot SEALs: Her Special Alpha (Kindle Worlds) (X-OPS 3.5) Read Online Free Page B

right time,” Eden insisted.
    “Luckily. If you hadn’t been there… I don’t even want to think about it.” She sighed. “Thanks for watching out for Brandon. I love him like crazy, but he can’t seem to walk out of the house without getting into some kind of trouble. Thank you for not letting those guys hurt him.”
    Eden smiled. “Anytime.”
    As she hung up the phone a little while later, she couldn’t help but think about what Emily had said about how easily her fiancé got into trouble. Eden only hoped that “trouble” Brandon got into behind the restaurant didn’t involve her sister.
     

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Three
     
    “So, you just got out of Special Forces, huh? Do you know Landon Donovan?” Eden asked as they waited for the waitress to bring the enchiladas they’d ordered. Despite all the seafood restaurants in Virginia Beach, she and Travis settled on a nice, quiet Mexican place for dinner.
    Travis sat across the table from her, casually rubbing his thumb over the foil label on his beer bottle and looking extremely hot. His well-shaped biceps peeked out from under the short sleeves of his T-shirt, and the material was tight enough across the chest to let her clearly make out the definition of his pecs and hint at his abs. She had no doubt that if she slid her hands under there, she’d find a six-pack worthy of a good, long nibble.
    Yet, as good as he looked, the thing hitting her the hardest right then was his scent. He smelled so delicious she could just about smother him in salsa and eat him up. The visual was almost enough to make her purr. She was so caught up in the fantasy she didn’t even know he was speaking until she realized his lips were moving.
    “…but yeah, I know him more by reputation than anything else.” Travis was saying.
    What had she asked him again? Oh, that’s right. Whether he knew Landon. Her sneaky way of figuring out if Travis had been Special Forces.
    “I only actually worked with him once,” Travis continued. “He was in the 5 th Group out of Fort Campbell and I was in the 10 th out of Fort Carson. We handled different areas of responsibility, so there wasn’t a lot of call for us to work together very often. I knew he was good at his job, though, which was why I was shocked when I heard he’d gotten yanked out of SF to work for the Department of Homeland Security. The rumors floating around last year were that he’d pissed off somebody at SOCOM headquarters and they were sticking him in a dead-end desk job to destroy his career. But now that I’ve met you, I’m thinking maybe that was rumor was false.”
    Eden smiled as she sipped her margarita. “Yeah, it was. Landon is definitely not doing a desk job and his career is anything but destroyed. Of course, I can’t really tell you what kind of work he’s doing because then I’d have to kill you.”
    Everyone who’d ever dealt with classified information used that silly line about protecting top secret data, but Travis chuckled anyway. He probably would have made a comment, but the waitress arrived with their food.
    “Why’d you get out of the army?” Eden asked as she began cutting up her enchilada. 
    He glanced at her as he picked up his knife and fork. “I loved the work and the people, but in the past eight years, I’ve seen my family for a grand total of twenty-four hours. I have parents out in Texas who are getting older, and a brother who’s married and has five kids. I haven’t even met my two youngest nephews.”
    When he looked up at Eden, she was surprised at the amount of pain in his eyes. Her heart tightened a little for him.
    “I realized at some point that I was out there saving the world for everyone else while my life was disappearing in the rearview mirror,” he added. “I decided it was a time for a change, no matter how much I loved being Special Forces.”
    “I can understand that,” Eden said.
    It was hard being away from her family, and she lived a