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The minute Swanny opened the door, Hancock was in his face, hands gripping Swanny’s shirt in tight fists, so fast and furious that Swanny had no tiuns and trained them on Hancock, and Joe barked an order for Hancock to stand down or he’d shoot

"Where is she?" Hancock de Joe’s threat

Hancock was one pissed-off ball of bristlingoff him in waves Before the rest of Swanny’s teaet his own gun up and between theh the roo here?"

And then to Swanny’s utter shock, she pushed by Swanny, inserting herself between the two htly More baffling was the fact that he returned her hug just as fiercely, his fury seely diminished now that Eden was there in front of him

The looks on Swanny’s team members’ faces were a mixture of what-the-fuck and utter bewilderone insane? How the hell did Eden and Hancock even know each other, much less be on such intihtly against his body, and Swanny realized that Hancock’s anger had in fact been worry What the hell was Hancock’s connection to Eden? Hancock was a rebel, following his own set of rules andemotion for another person

"You scared the hell out of ruffly

Everyone’sfk? And she’d called him Guy Hell, Swanny didn’t even know Hancock’s first name or if Hancock was his first name He knew very little about Hancock at all other than the little that had been gleaned from his run-ins with KGI on two missions

But there was a softness in his expression that was never present Swanny had never seen theexcept cold and reserved, but he was anything but that with Eden There was honest-to-God relief and tenderness in his eyes as he hugged Eden again

Skylar’s lips parted, and she stared at Hancock as if an alien had suddenly descended Cupcake? she silently mouthed For real?

Swanny was every bit as bewildered as the rest of his teaency they’d planned for at all How could they have? Sure, Hancock had shown up and had crossed paths with KGI in the past, but he’d never had a personal stake in any of them And it appeared he ht fist wrapped itself around Swanny’s neck as jealousy and a sense of territory violation assailed him He considered Eden his, and he didn’t like the fact that another man, especially Hancock, was evidently on intimate terms with her

When Eden pulled away, Hancock looked her up and down, his eyes narrowing as if studying her for injuries

"Are you okay?" Hancock asked in a soft voice

The KGI team was utterly bewildered, and it was reflected in all their expressions Swanny’s teauns but didn’t holster theuard because he didn’t trust Hancock in the least

"I’ood care of me Why are you here? How did you know? I don’t understand Have you spoken to Dad or Ryker or Raid?"