The Cowboy’s Claim by Sinclair Jayne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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The sirocco tore at the corners of the airplane hangar screaming
vengeance. The howls matched the way Otis Calhoun Lael-Miller V’s soul
shrieked as he watched his best friend’s bloody helmet make the rounds
through the large, capable hands of his Coyote Cowboy brothers. Like most
of his team, his head was bowed as if in silent prayer, although he knew
none. It was far too late anyway.
Using peripheral vision, he watched the helmet’s progress as each of his
teammates drew a slip of paper out of the helmet. Jace’s amends. Or vows.
Plans that he’d never get the chance to complete.
Calhoun’s throat squeezed, and his chest felt crushed. His eyes burned.
Sand.
Yeah.
Not tears. Millers didn’t cry. They tamed land. Ran cattle. Built towns
and then cities. Racked up architecture awards. Had Emmy-award-winning
shows based on their lives. The Lael side of his family crafted awardwinning wines in several different states and two countries. They launched
fashion houses and brands that were global and every celebrity It Girl’s wet
dream.
If either side of his ambitious, famous, and extravagantly wealthy
family was asked—and he doubted they had thought about him in years—
he would be the underachiever.
By design. He’d walked away at eighteen, dumping Otis and Lael and
the Roman numeral and any stake in the empire.
His family wouldn’t consider that not dying in the desert or jungle or
mountain pass in a country few Americans could find on a map counted as
an achievement. Ditto for saving the lives of people who weren’t and never
would be shareholders.
Calhoun had built his own ladder of success until it had crashed down
on him because he’d gone with instinct, not training. When his team had
received faulty intel or had been compromised, and the mission had spun
south, he’d run to protect his military dog instead of his team leader.
Seeing Duke take two hits, he’d slithered into his lizard brain, sprayed
the field with returning fire and launched himself into Duke’s position,
slapped two pressure field bandages on him, picked him up and called for
an emergency extraction before he realized Jace and Huck had been hit.
Pinned down because he’d given their enemy a clear shot at their position
with his Spider-Man leap, Calhoun—whispering reassurances to Duke—
had dug in and kept returning fire while Huck worked on Jace, and Rohan
crept to higher ground to pick off the two nests of snipers so Huck could
retreat with Jace.
They’d had to shoot their way out to the extraction point. Duke had
made it. Jace hadn’t. And Huck never said a word about it to command.
Another team had completed their mission, a first for the Coyote
Cowboys unit.
And Calhoun would have to exit his prestigious service career with that
stain on his soul, if not his record.
He’d planned to muster out along with Jace McBride, one of the best
friends a man could have. But Jace was gone, and Duke’s career was over—
though he’d survived the two surgeries that might save his life.
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