Down Range: Tungsten Protective Services, #1
By Aliyah Burke
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He may save her life but can her heart be saved from his past betrayal?
Ralston "Lucifer" Dansen has just returned back from being down range when he learns that the woman he loves has gone and gotten herself into a bit of a situation. Despite the fact he knows he broke her heart and her trust, he's not going to let her die in some foreign country.
Rizzo Candela hadn't expected her trip to turn into a life or death situation, one made worse by her mouth. If only she'd learned to curb it. Praying for some kind of intervention when it arrives, she isn't a hundred percent positive it's for the better. It's the one man who betrayed her, can she trust he'll keep her safe this time around?
Aliyah Burke
USA Today bestselling author Aliyah Burke is an avid reader and is never far from pen and paper (or the computer). She is happily married to a career military man. They are owned by six Borzoi. She spends her days at the day job, writing, and working with her dogs.
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Down Range
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Down Range
By
Aliyah Burke
Blurb
He may save her life but can her heart be saved from his past betrayal?
Ralston Lucifer
Dansen has just returned back from being down range when he learns that the woman he loves has gone and gotten herself into a bit of a situation. Despite the fact he knows he broke her heart and her trust, he’s not going to let her die in some foreign country.
Rizzo Candela hadn’t expected her trip to turn into a life or death situation, one made worse by her mouth. If only she’d learned to curb it. Praying for some kind of intervention when it arrives, she isn’t a hundred percent positive it’s for the better. It’s the one man who betrayed her, can she trust he’ll keep her safe this time around?
Dedication
To everyone who wanted more of the SEAL Team. This is their group, their men and women so we will see them here and there. I hope you enjoy the people who work for Tungsten Protective Services. To DH, thank you for never telling me to stop dreaming.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
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About The Author
Chapter One
You sure you want to go? Or rather are up to it?
Scott Harrier
Leighton leaned back in his black leather chair, his blue eyes straight forward. I can send in—
No. I mean, send in who you want but I’m going.
Ralston Lucifer
Dansen lowered his frame to another chair around the table in the ops room at Tungsten Protective Services. Had the question come from someone he didn’t respect so much, they would have come to blows. He wouldn’t take them insinuating that he was unable to handle his job merely because of the woman involved. Yes, I just got back from down range. Yes, I’m exhausted and could use a bed, but I’m going. I can sleep on the plane. It’s Riz.
My Riz.
Christ, even saying her name ripped open old scabs and allowed the blood and pain to flow free.
Harrier exchanged a look with Cade, the other founding member of the private security company who was in the room. The group was comprised mostly of ex-military, all branches along with other specialized services. They were able to operate without the red tape and political bullshit the government liked to apply.
Tyson Cade
Kincade lifted a hand, ran it through his shaggy brown hair, and shrugged. He wants in, send him. We could use more boots on the ground. I’d rather have a trio. I can alert Mac and Cole that he’s coming. We both know we’d go if it were our wives.
His tone calm and smooth.
Scott nodded. True. You want in, you’re in.
Harrier rose and strode by him. The jet will be wheels up in twenty.
He clapped him on the shoulder. Stay safe.
Cade followed him out, providing a similar sentiment as he passed.
Alone in the room, Ralston gripped the edges of the table and groaned. Damn it Riz, what have you gone and gotten yourself into this time?
As if it had been yesterday, he could pull up the scent of her skin, the feel of her curves along his body. The way she glowed as she rode him to orgasm. Her effervescence, her passion. Then came the way she looked at him the day he told her it was over. That expression, the complete and utter heartbreak on her face. The way the light seemed to go out from within. The betrayal and pain, those were the emotions he saw when he closed his eyes at night. He’d never sunk so low before but that had been the job. Use her, get close, and see what secrets he could uncover about her uncle’s ties to some arms dealing.
At that time, he’d been in the Army. A ranger. He’d gone in prepared to do his job. He’d not been prepared for the way she’d wormed her way under his skin and into his heart. He’d fallen in love with her. In the six months they’d had, he had given her his heart then proceeded to rip hers from her chest.
Out of the military now, he was part of Tungsten and when her name had popped up and her image had been on the screen, every warrior instinct he had snapped to full attention, he wasn’t about to let her die in a foreign country. She may not be happy to see him but he could live with that, so long as she lived.
Twenty minutes. Not a lot of time. He left the room and padded to the locker room, stripped, then stepped into the shower. I just need one wash to remove a few layers of Middle Eastern grime.
Five minutes later, he wrapped a towel around his waist and strode to his pile of clothing. His go bag sat near with an accompanying one of fast food. That’s one fucking good smelling bag of food. He knew what food awaited him. Ralston dressed and was eating as he tied on his boots. Bag on one shoulder, burger in the other, he jogged to the airstrip and the waiting plane.
The door closed and he finished up his food as they lifted off to the sky.
And we’re French Guinea bound.
αβ
The scent of unwashed bodies filled the humid air. Who knew in an embassy so many could smell similar to the homeless? Rizzo Riz
Candela shifted against her bindings, wincing at the pain radiating up her arms. She squeezed her eyes shut praying that one time she would see it was all a dream. Not this hellish nightmare.
A trip to French Guinea was supposed to be fun. Relaxing. That hadn’t gone as planned when armed rebels took over the embassy. Hell if there’d been civil unrest in the area, she wouldn’t have even come down. Danger wasn’t her thing.
Except for that one man. She brushed away thoughts best left in the dark and focused on