Daddy Defender
He was a man on a mission, one that included a beautiful woman and a little girl he'd die defending… What a serious case of mistaken identity. Ashton Fitzgerald is no unassuming handyman but a highly trained sharpshooter intent on protecting Summer Worrall and her baby daughter. The Omega SWAT member has a debt to pay and he isn't about to let Summer out of his sights.For someone else has set their own sights on the lovely widow. Her unexpected relationship with Ashton has put Summer and her child straight into a madman's line of fire. Suddenly a mission to make amends becomes Ashton's quest to defend this little family with his very life.
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He was a man on a mission, one that included a beautiful woman and a little girl heâd die defendingâ¦
What a serious case of mistaken identity. Ashton Fitzgerald is no unassuming handyman but a highly trained sharpshooter intent on protecting Summer Worrall and her baby daughter. The Omega SWAT member has a debt to pay and he isnât about to let Summer out of his sights.
For someone else has set their own sights on the lovely widow. Her unexpected relationship with Ashton has put Summer and her child straight into a madmanâs line of fire. Suddenly a mission to make amends becomes Ashtonâs quest to defend this little family with his very life.
Omega Sector: Under Siege
Summer stood holding her daughter, staring at the man she thought sheâd known so much about, but obviously hadnât.
SWAT.
She saw the exact moment Ashton heard Chloe. A smile brightened his face as he looked over at them.
Then faded as he obviously remembered where he was and realized what had just happened.
They stared at each other from the yards that separated them. Chloe kept yelling for him and trying to get down.
At least now Summer knew what Ashton had wanted to tell her that she wouldnât like.
Her handyman was SWAT.
JANIE CROUCH has loved to read romance her whole life. The award-winning author cut her teeth on Mills & Boon Cherish novels as a preteen, then moved on to a passion for romantic suspense as an adult. Janie lives with her husband and four children overseas. She enjoys traveling, long-distance running, movie watching, knitting and adventure/obstacle racing. You can find out more about her at www.janiecrouch.com.
Ashton FitzgeraldâSharpshooter for Omega Sector Critical Response Division (SWAT).
Summer WorrallâYoung widow and single mother. Lost her husband two years ago in an Omega hostage-negotiation operation gone wrong.
Chloe WorrallâSummerâs toddler daughter.
Damien FreihofâTerrorist mastermind. Determined to bring down Omega Sector piece by piece by doing what they did to him: destroying their loved ones.
Mr. âFawkesââOmega Sector traitor providing inside information to Freihof.
Curtis HarperâBeing used by Freihof as a tool to take revenge on Omega Sector.
Derek WatermanâOmega Sector Critical Response Division leader.
Roman WeberâOmega Sector Critical Response Division team member.
Lillian MuirâOmega Sector Critical Response Division team member.
Tyrone MarcusâOmega Sector Critical Response Division team member in training.
Phillip CarnellâOmega Sector agent. Computer and strategy expert.
Omega SectorâLaw enforcement task force made up of the best agents the country has to offer.
This book is dedicated to my aunt Terri and uncle Mike. Thank you for being a wonderful example of Godâs love and goodness to so many. And for being two of my favorite people on the planet.
Contents
âAshton, it means the world to me that you would come here to fix this first thing in the morning.â
Ashton Fitzgerald, top sharpshooter for Omega Sector Critical Response Divisionâs SWAT team, had his head and half his large torso under the kitchen sink of a condo unit in Masking Ridge, a community just south of Colorado Springs.
He knew Summer Worrall, owner of said sink, didnât expect much of a response from him, so he just grunted as he put a little more elbow grease into tightening a stripped nut on her piping.
âI donât know when it started leaking, but it was definitely bad when Chloe got me up this morning.â
As if in agreement, nineteen-month-old Chloe began gurgling in her motherâs arms and clapping loudly. She obviously wanted to be let down onto the floor to play with Ashton, but Summer was keeping her out of the way.
âItâs no problem,â Ashton muttered.
Actually, it was a problem. He was going to be late into Omega Sectorâs SWAT training facility. Not that there would be any true harm in that; the team was just running exercises today unless something real came in. But as soon as they realized why Ashton was lateâbecause Summer Worrall thought he was the maintenance man againâthey were going to tease him mercilessly.
Again.
They all knew, or at least knew of, Summer and Chloe. Her husband had been killed in a hostage situation gone wrong nearly two years ago. Then sheâd been kidnapped by a psychopath eight months ago in another incident involving the Omega Sectorâs Critical Response Division, an elite interagency task force with some of the countryâs best agents.
So no one on the team actually begrudged Ashton helping out the young widow. What they found so hilarious was the fact that Summer thought he was the handyman for the entire condo complex.
