Page 46 of Stranded with the SEAL
“No, Trevor, I don’t think you do.” She looked at her hands. “I don’t remember everything yet, but I know I was running away from my own wedding. I wasn’t going to marry him.”
“You weren’t?”
“No.”
“I don’t know why, but I almost think I was afraid of him.”
“Did he abuse you?”
She shook her head. “I don’t know. I wish I could explain… It’s like trying to guess the final picture of a jigsaw puzzle when you only have a few of the pieces.”
He took her hand in his. “You have time. You don’t need to remember everything this moment.”
Someone rapped three times on the bedroom door. “Wheels up in five minutes, Hawk.”
Olivia looked to the door, then back at Trevor. “What’s going on?”
“They’re going to help me go after Ralph’s killer.”
She still didn’t want to know exactly what he meant bygo after, but she smiled because she knew what their support meant to him. “That’s great.”
“I want you to come with us back to the chopper. You’ll be safe there while we complete the mission.”
She thought back to the panic and fear she’d experienced the last time he’d left her alone. “I thought you’d never ask.”
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They’d leftOlivia in the chopper and traveled up the mountain on three-man ATVs, each of them equipped with the night vision goggles and com system they’d need on the journey. This was the stuff HERO Force was good at — infiltrating enemy territory — and Hawk was grateful the mission that would have been trying as a solo operation now had the full capabilities of the team.
Nearly everything Trevor lost in the crash, HERO Force had brought with them to Warsaw Mountain. The chopper was loaded with weapons, ammunition, and explosives — more than enough to take out the bridge down the other side of the mountain and trap Steele’s shipment of girls.
Trevor and Jax suited up in climbing gear, their harnesses full of C-4, and repelled down the bridge’s stone support columns to place the charges.
Trevor swung out over the frozen river below, looking at the height of the massive old structure. “Do you think the state will send us a thank you letter? We’re saving them a lot of work.”
Jax smiled begrudgingly. “I don’t expect they will.”
Cowboy repelled down the stone column, pockets full of detonators. “So, about Olivia…”
“Forget it, Cowboy, she’s spoken for,” said Trevor.
“Shit.” He inserted a detonator into a block of C-4 and wrapped the plastic explosive around it. “She looks a little like Brooke Barrons, you know? That woman is smoking hot.”
Jax’s head snapped up.
“She is Brooke Barrons,” said Trevor.
Cowboy punched him in the shoulder. “No way, dude! You made it with a movie star?”
Jax held up his hand in Cowboy’s face and turned to Hawk. “In all seriousness, she really is Brooke Barrons?”
Hawk shrugged his shoulders. “Yes, she really is. I told her that, but I’m not sure she actually remembers. Her memory’s a little like Swiss cheese from the accident, but it’s coming back a little at a time.”
Jax’s expression was deadly serious. “How do you know?”
Hawk grinned. “I had no idea you were a fan.”
“I’m not,” said Jax. “I repeat, how do you know she’s Brooke Barrons?”