The Broken One (Falcon Falls Security, #2)

by Brittney Sahin

“If you’re back, you’re back with us. Your assignment is in there.” He tilted his head toward the 8x11 envelope and set the card on top of it. Thatcher’s order caused the blood to drain from Jesse’s face, but only for a moment. That short-lived fear was quickly replaced with a white-hot rage that burned through his entire body. “You agreed to let me walk if I gave you one more year. And I actually gave you eighteen months.” “You gave me those extra six months because Ella Hawkins got engaged,” Thatcher said smugly, a self-satisfied gleam in his eyes. Jesse had never shared that with the man, but Thatcher knew everything, so. After his weekend with Ella in New York City, Jesse had resolved to walk away from Thatcher and his job. To turn his cover story into his real story and learn to be the kind of man Ella deserved. But Thatcher made him give one more year of his life as a trade for getting “out” without complications. And over the course of that year, Ella had moved on, just as Jesse had instructed her to do. She’d announced her engagement exactly one year after their New York Christmas, which was two days before Jesse had planned to walk away from Thatcher.