β Scribed by Brenna Zinn
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Master Sergeant Duke Gunnison sucks at retirement. He has no intention of turning in his combat boots for golf shoes. His former life in Special Ops, where he protected innocents and fought dangerous enemies, provided the rush he continually craved. Without the constant missions to feed his adrenaline addiction, hes lost his sense of purpose and he struggles to find meaning in his new lifeuntil he gets a life changing phone call.
Grey Holden, a founder of the prestigious private security agency The Omega Team, offers Duke a chance at a second life doing what he was born to doa special op to safeguard the daughter of an important Ukrainian diplomat. But Mila Bartosh is not only a special envoys daughter, sent to accompany her father as he negotiates the removal of troops in eastern Ukraine. Shes on a secret mission of her ownto exact revenge on a powerful Russian mob boss, guilty of unspeakable crimes.
Mila is determined to help protect her father and accomplish her treacherous undertaking at all costs. But as her tasks become more complex, she unexpectedly reunites with the man who stole her heart and then vanished into the night, never to be heard from again, until now. Her loveem and leaveem paramour is none other than her new American bodyguard Duke Gunnison. With innocent lives on the line, can she carry out her missions while avenging her broken heart?
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