Scorching the Earth

She was broken.

I wanted to be the one to heal her. Only it wasn't that simple. She was my superior. I was her second in command. Work got in the way, so remaining friends was smarter, especially for a woman like me who fell hard and often. But I couldn't get Hannah out of my head. In fact . . . I loved her more than my next breath. But her heart was locked down in a way that no one would ever get close enough to win it. Especially now. We worked for KTS, an elite military group whose ranks were dangerously close to breaking. There were traitors in our midst, enemies behind trusted faces. I had Hannah's back through all of it. I wouldn't fail her. Not even when our mission seemed destined to put us in danger, to rattle the very foundations of everything we worked for.