Wild Hearts (Novella) by Tina Wainscott Page A

Everything we joined the SEALs for. We can have it again. You in?”
    “Mountain Man and I are going down to Rod’s. Remember him? He owns a bike shop and hasn’t taken a vacation in two years. We’re going to spell him so he and his old lady can take off for a week. Go play in Justiss’s playground and let me know what happens.”
    Risk could accept that. He focused on Saxby. “You’re getting soft, buddy. Spoiled.”
    “Soft?” Saxby pulled up his T-shirt and thumped his knuckles against his six-pack. “You call this soft?”
    “I sure don’t.” Sue had come up with a pitcher of iced tea, and she was practically drooling.
    Risk was glad he hadn’t taken the bet. But honestly, his head wasn’t in
that
head. He needed more than a roll in the sack.
    “Why, thank you, darlin’,” Sooch drawled, giving her his whole attention, just like he always did with the ladies.
    She filled his glass first, then the others. “How’s dinner?”
    “Hot and tasty,” Sax said in his deliberate way that always made the woman on the receiving end blush. Sue was no exception.
    Damn, the boy had definitely gotten soft … in the brain, anyway. His focus would be on getting laid and not on his future, and Risk wanted to get to Miami tomorrow, now that he’d made his mind up to go.
    Sax leaned back with a sigh and watched Sue sashay back to the kitchen. “She is hot. And I bet she’d be tasty.”
    The guys gave a general consent, too busy filling their pieholes to comment further.
    Sax blew out a long breath and turned to Risk. “I did get soft the first month I was home. Ate every kind of pie available, drank whiskey lemonade, and slept till noon. A week ago, I lost interest in it all. I found myself in the gym crunching until my abs burned like one of our grills. I ran for five hours straight. I even blew off a date, forgot all about it as I ran and ran and ran. That’s the best I’ve felt since the defuckle. And at the end, I realized I need something more than the cushy corporate life. I can’t reenlist, don’t want to go into law enforcement, so I called Chase.”
    “And?”
    “Told him I was thinking about it, asked some questions. I liked what he had to say. I’m in.”
    Risk gave him a nod, even though he wanted to jump up and holler. He shifted his attention to Knox. “What about you, Maverick? The three of us can go down and do training and orientation together.”
    Knox leaned back in his chair with his arms crossed over his chest like he was going to be a big fat
no
. “You can drop that bulldozer look. I talked to Justiss last week. I’m already scheduled to fly down the week you’re there.”
    Risk felt as though he’d been sucker-punched. But in a good way. He traded a high five with Knox. It would be only a matter of time before Julian and Rath signed on. Then the team would be together again. And he knew they were going to kick ass.

The Men of Justiss
    Wild on You
(Spring 2014)
    Rick (Risk) Yarbrough
    Risk Yarbrough has always been an adrenaline junkie. Always the first to jump into a situation, he’s the first to join the Justiss team. He thinks he needs danger to feel alive, but he has no idea that the biggest thrill of all is taking a chance with love.

    Wild Ways
(Spring 2014)
    Julian Cuevas
    Julian fought his destiny as a member of a crime family by joining the SEALs. Exiled from the Navy, he hits the road on his Harley to relish nothing more than fast riding and faster women. But smoky bars and meaningless encounters don’t fulfill his need for purpose. The Justiss Alliance does, along with a woman in danger who thinks the last thing she needs is a sexy Latin savior.

    Wild Nights
(Fall 2014)
    Saxby Cole
    The only commitment that laid-back Southern charmer Saxby has ever been able to make is to the SEALs. As much as he loves women, he follows a long line of Cole lotharios who swear that monogamy just isn’t in their blood. And Sax is inclined to agree—until he meets the one woman who