Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Protecting New York (Kindle Worlds Novella) Read Online Free

his way there blindfolded without missing a turn.
    When his Ma had seen in the papers that the SEAL and his slut were going to New York City so he could be hailed as a hero, she had been so pissed she’d screamed until her voice broke. The guy was here to teach, for fuck’s sake—teach cops how to deactivate bombs and kill innocent people. Ma knew then that it was time. Time to send Miguel, her youngest, out to seek revenge for them all.
    And in this city, on a scale as big as this? The whole world would be watching and they’d see. Miguel was going to make them all see what happened when you messed with the Delgados.

    * * *
    “ D o you think my hair looks all right?” Cheyenne asked as she fussed in the mirror. Since Riley and Terryn were taking her sightseeing tomorrow, they had thought it would be a good idea if everybody got together for dinner tonight as a sort of ice breaker. Before the kinky festivities began.
    She’d come a long way from the slightly insecure woman she’d been before Dude had come into her life. Having the love of a man so handsome and compelling did wonders for self-esteem. Wherever they went together, heads would turn, male and female. It gave her confidence a real boost, because she never felt they were mismatched. In every way, he treated her as an equal and the people who saw them together did too. She never got the feeling that people were wondering what a hot hunk of man was doing with her, so after a while, she’d quit wondering too.
    But the real game-changer for Shy had been the love of his friends.
    Shy had tried her whole life to figure out why her own mother and sister had never loved her. Until she’d met Faulkner and the people who came with him, she’d internalized the pain and rejection, accepting the fault must somehow lie within her.
    Faulkner’s SEAL team was as tight as brothers and the women they loved, sisters. In one fell swoop, Cheyenne had gone from isolated loner to part of a loud, close-knit family. The women had embraced her from the very first night and she loved them as fiercely as if they were sisters in truth. And being a part of that, a member of a family that loved unconditionally, had abolished a lifetime of self-doubts.
    Once in a while, though, old habits would creep up. When Faulkner had told her about the women’s offer, she’d had to fight back her first response—to decline and go alone—and instead opened herself up to the possibility of new friends and seeing the city from the eyes of locals.
    “It looks beautiful.” Dude wrapped his arms around her from behind, placing a sweet kiss on the back of her neck, which sent chills racing down her spine. “Everything about you is beautiful to me. Always.” She saw him lean back so he could take a more thorough look, then he added, “I like all those fat curls. How do you get them to stay put like that?” When he lifted a hand to try and find the answer for himself, Shy ducked under his arm and away before he could touch.
    “It’s a girl secret.” She teased him with her hands lifted to ward him off. “If I told you, they’d kick me out of the club and make me give my vagina back.”
    That surprised a full-bellied laugh out of him that lasted long enough for her to make her getaway to the suite’s living room. When he followed, she made sure to keep the coffee table between them in case he got it in his head to try again.
    “Seriously,” she said with echoes of her own laughter still in her voice. “It may look like I just threw it up last second because I didn’t want to bother. But you were here the whole time. I know you heard me cursing and grumbling the entire hour it took me to get it to look like this.” With hands on her hips, she glared at him. “Don’t even think of touching it and ruining all my hard work.”
    A challenge of any kind wasn’t easy for her man to turn away from, but when she threw down a gauntlet, Faulkner never failed to rise to the occasion. However, he