Page 104 of Over the Edge

It wasn’t as if they could stop or turn around to plan something else. The armed men lounging at the approach to the bridge had already seen the truck and straightened, waiting for it to pull up in front of them.

Trevor stopped and the brakes squealed loudly as the engine gave a mighty cough and belched out a puff of smoke.

“Roll down the window,” Anna muttered.

He did as she instructed, and immediately, she began a screeching tirade at him. He only followed about one tenth of the rapid-fire Zagari, but it had to do with being late and food spoiling and getting caught in the snow that was coming, and something about his rotten, stupid truck breaking down.

One of the guards said something in the window, and she turned her tirade on him, going so far as to shake a finger at the guy.

The first guard seemed taken aback, and the second guy leaned down to speak in the window, something about her calming down.

That didn’t go well. Her volume increased significantly, her pitch climbed an octave, and the stridency in her voice at least doubled. The second guard backed up quickly and Trevor rolled his eyes at both men. They waved him on with looks of sympathy plain on their faces.

He rolled up his window and put the truck in gear.

They got nearly halfway across the one-lane bridge before Anna quit ranting. “Are we out of earshot?” she asked low.

“Barely,” he replied wryly.

She grinned at him. “That was fun.”

“Speak for yourself. I didn’t even understand what you were saying, and it was still…”

“Aggressive?”

He laughed. “I was going for something more along the lines of stressful or alarming, but sure. I’ll agree with anything you say, right about now.”

She laughed lightly. “At this speed, it’ll take about thirty minutes to reach the ingress point we picked out last night.”

He grunted. “Here’s hoping the truck holds together that long. If you want to change into camo clothing, go for it. From here on out, we’ll be in full SEAL mode, invisible, stealthy, and armed to the teeth.”

She smiled. “That’s the part I like best. Knowing I’m a one-woman wrecking machine.”

“Wait till the first time you see a full SEAL platoon open up on a hostile target. It’s an impressive projection of force.”

“Maybe I’ll get a chance, soon.”

“You’ll forgive me if I’m not in a hurry for that to happen,” he replied dryly, as stone cold terror gripped him. Anna in combat? The woman he lov—

Negative. Strike that. She was his teammate. He hated for any of his brethren to see danger.

Liar.

You have feelings for her.

She’s right. You’re just too big a coward to admit it.

Well, hell. Now what was he supposed to do?

“Forecast is calling for snow, boss,”Axe commented, an earpiece held to his ear.

Jojo, a native of Hawaii, groaned, and the others laughed at him.

Cal asked, “When will it start?”

Axe answered, “Weather guys in J-bad place it before dawn, tomorrow.”

He nodded “Shouldn’t interfere with the drug bust Ronan says is going down tonight, then.”

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