Outcast (SEAL Team: Disavowed Book 2) by Laura Marie Altom

Author:Laura Marie Altom [Altom, Laura Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SEAL Team: Disavowed, Book 2
Publisher: Fulton Court Press
Published: 2016-03-10T23:00:00+00:00

9

“I’M SORRY,” DANE said once Jasper left to inspect the hall. He reached out to hug Eden, but she stepped away.

“Don’t touch me. I don’t understand how you could be so cruel. I believed you when you said my father was safe—at least he might have had a better chance with the elements than with a killer. Now, he could be anywhere.” She poked her head out from behind the door. “Jasper? Everything okay?”

When he didn’t answer, her heart pounded. If something happened to him, she wasn’t sure what she’d do.

She crept out to the lab.

“Eden!” Dane whispered. “Get back here.”

“No. I’m not leaving Jasper to fend for himself.”

“Are you implying that’s what I did with your dad? If so, it’s not true. You know what it was like when Leo and his men were here. Utter and complete chaos. It’s a miracle any of us are alive.”

“I know. Now, hush. With you yammering, I can’t hear a thing.” She crept closer and closer to the hall door but didn’t hear a sound. “Jasper?”

“Look what I found.” Jasper appeared. He held something, but from where he stood in the hall’s shadows, she couldn’t tell exactly what.

When it moved in his arms, she leaped backwards, clutching her hand to her chest. “Hope you know CPR. I need it.”

“Sorry. Check him out. I didn’t know pets were allowed?”

“They’re not. At all.” Yet he held a gorgeous white Persian with ice blue eyes. She stepped closer, holding the tag on his collar. “According to this, his name is Yeti.”

“Who does he belong to? And how in the world did his owner keep him a secret? I can’t even begin to imagine how they smuggled him in. On a supply ship?” She took the purring cat for a cuddle. “Poor, baby. You must be starving.”

“I caught him jumping from table to table in the lab across the hall. He must have knocked over a stool.”

“Who in their right mind would smuggle a cat down here?” Dane emerged from the office.

“No clue,” Eden said. “But now that we found him, we need to feed him, then track down what he was using for food and a litter box.” To the cat she said, “Your mommy or daddy must be seriously creative.” Too late she remembered whoever the cat belonged to was dead. Tears stung her eyes, and in the moment, she felt inordinately grateful for the small luxury of cuddling the giant fluffball. “I’ll take care of you, okay?”

For how long she couldn’t promise, but maybe Jasper would care of him once she was gone.

The thought was macabre, but Eden had watched her mother gift her most loved possessions to her most cherished friends. Because Carl was always traveling, her college roomie took Coconut the Pomeranian. When her mom died, Eden split her time between boarding schools and her father’s Antarctic station. She’d never had a pet again.

Was it selfish of her to take on one now? Yes. But it wasn’t as if fate had given her a choice.

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