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

“You just happened to stumble over a guy with Special Forces training in the middle of a firefight in Virginia Beach?”
    “Yeah. And I’m lucky I did. I would have been in trouble without him.”
    Understatement there. As a shifter, she was able to take a lot of punishment, but she wasn’t invincible. A lucky shot while she’d been fighting that wolf shifter and she’d be dead right now.
    “Can you get an ID on the two guys Virginia Beach PD arrested?” Eden asked Kendra. “The cops weren’t willing to tell me anything even after I flashed my badge, so you’ll probably have to hack into their departmental database to get the info. And while you’re sniffing around, maybe you can check out Brandon and Tim, too. Travis and I think they might be more involved than they want everyone to think. Maybe they’re hiding something that’ll explain why the heck those guys used them as punching bags. Oh, and by the way, can you not mention this to John?”
    John Loughlin was the director of the DCO. He was a great guy and an even better boss, but she didn’t want him sending down the cavalry to back her up when this whole thing might be nothing more than a mugging.
    “Yeah sure, I can do all that,” Kendra said. “But did I hear you say that you and Travis think Brandon and Tim might be involved? This Travis guy is still helping you out?”
    Eden mentally cringed at that. She really needed to watch what she said around Kendra. The woman was sharp as a tack. “Yeah. He recognized as fast as I did that Brandon and Tim were acting strangely. We’re having dinner tomorrow night to discuss the possibility.”
    That and other stuff.
    “I see,” Kendra said. “Travis Dalton sounds very interesting. You don’t want me mentioning him to John, either?”
    “No!” Eden said a lot more quickly and loudly than necessary. “I mean, no. There’s no need for John to even know about him.” She cringed. “I hate to ask, but do you think you can do a background check on Travis Dalton, too? Just in case.”
    Eden didn’t want to think the entire situation in the alley could have been arranged purely so she would run into Travis, but she was only too aware of the freaky rumors that had been flying around the DCO lately. Some mad-scientist types had been trying to create man-made shifters and ended up making vicious, uncontrollable hybrids instead. Nobody knew who was behind the hybrid program, but some of her colleagues were starting to wonder if they could even trust the people in power at the DCO. Worse, there were rumors that some of those powerful people wanted shifters completely eradicated. Crap like that made Eden paranoid enough to know she had to be careful, no matter how much her instincts told her that Travis could be trusted.
    Kendra promised she’d get the information to Eden, then told her to be careful.
    Eden hung up, then tossed the phone on the bed with a yawn. Between the wedding rehearsal and dinner, then the insanity in the ally, she was more than ready to call it a day. Taking off her dress, she hung it in the closet, then put on a tank top and shorts. She was just about to brush her teeth when her cell phone rang.
    Padding over to bed, she picked it up and glanced at the call screen.
    “Hey, Emily. Everything okay?”
    “Everything’s fine,” her sister said. “It’s you I’m worried about. I didn’t get much of a chance to talk to you at the restaurant with all the police around, but they said you chased off three guys with automatic weapons? Is that true?”
    Eden pulled back the blanket and sat down on the bed, tucking her legs under her. “Not quite. For one thing, I didn’t chase them off on my own—I had help. And only two of the guys had automatic weapons. I fought the other guy hand-to-hand.”
    Emily was silent for so long that Eden wondered if they got cut off. “As in hand-to-hand combat? God, Eden, do you even know how badass you are?”
    “I was just in the right place at the