Brody's Vow (Colebrook Siblings Trilogy Book 1) Read Online Free

above. “No, wind’s been calm here all day.”
    DeLuca sighed and Brody could imagine him taking off his Chargers ball cap to run a hand through his short brown hair. “Maybe it was a power surge or something. Anyway, the alarm company can’t seem to turn it back on or reset it remotely. Would you mind swinging by our place on the way out of town to check it out? It’s probably nothing, but it’s weird that the entire system just crashed. The alarm company sent the cops over but they didn’t see anything wrong. I’d feel better if I had someone I trust run by to take a look, and I didn’t want to ask my neighbors in case there was an actual break-in or something.”
    “Sure, no problem, I’ll stop by now. You got a spare key hidden somewhere?” When he had the information he needed he assured DeLuca he’d call once he checked things out, then hung up. It kind of annoyed him that his trip home would be delayed, but his commander had never asked him for anything and as far as favors went, this was small. Shouldn’t take him long and then he’d be on his way.
    It took him just under fifteen minutes to drive to his commander’s place, a two-story house in a nice, quiet area full of tidy yards and homes. When he pulled up at the curb in front of the house the first thing he noticed was that all the lights were off, even the exterior front porch light, which DeLuca told him he left on whenever he and Briar were both out of town. The cops were long gone.
    Before exiting the truck Brody reached into the backseat and withdrew his pistol from the bag he’d packed, tucked it into the waistband of his jeans. He swept his gaze over the front of the property as he approached the house, moving along the side of the yard, near the privacy fence.
    He’d been here a handful of times before with his teammates and the guys from the assault team for cookouts in the backyard. DeLuca liked to get the sniper team and assault team guys all together for some social downtime a couple times a year, and so the wives and girlfriends could meet up and get to know one another too.
    They didn’t get the chance to do that kind of thing often because he and the other guys trained constantly when they weren’t on a mission. Their punishing schedule was deliberate, and meant to keep all their skills sharp to protect everyone on the team and ensure they were the best of the best.
    That’s why he’d been working so hard in the gym and at physio these past two months, to try and regain every bit of function and strength possible in his leg. He was thirty-four, still had a few years of eligibility left on the team.
    Whether or not he’d ever be operational again was still up in the air at the moment, and he hated that uncertainty. He wanted to be back with his guys, back in the action, leading from the front as he’d always done, both with the HRT and back during his days in the Corps.
    It had been months since he’d felt useful to anyone, and really, doing this favor for his commander was a welcome change of pace. Now he put all his training and experience into use, and damn, it felt good to slip into operational mode again, instead of sitting around on his ass doing nothing. If someone had broken into the house and was dumb enough to still be there, they’d be sorry.
    From his vantage point near the fence he could see that the front and garage doors didn’t appear to have been tampered with, and all the windows at the front of the house were intact. He continued along the east side, checking for footprints in the damp grass and finding none. At the side entrance to the garage, he paused to inspect the door. Both the knob and the lock showed no signs of forced entry, so he went around the back.
    A slight prickle at his nape registered when the security lights mounted on the side of the house didn’t go on as he rounded the rear of the house. They were motion-sensored. He remembered them from a former team gathering here. Even with the