Free #2 Dangerous Games by Lora Leigh

have you been shot that I don't know about? How many times was Reno hurt that Morganna and I were never informed of? Don't you try to guilt me; just tell me if she's okay."
    "She's fine," he snapped. "Now put Reno on the phone."
    "No."
    "No?" Male outrage filled his voice. "Raven, don't make me fly out there."
    "And if you fly out here, who's going to watch Morganna?" she pointed out. "If you think she needs protection, then protect her. Stop whining to Reno over everything. You just do it so you can avoid her, which really doesn't make sense. If you don't care anything for her, then why care what the hell she's doing?"
    Raven was sick of watching her friend eat her heart out over Clint's stupid male pride. Morganna loved Clint until nothing or no one else would do, and despite Clint's frozen seeming disregard, he did care. If he didn't, he wouldn't take such pleasure in driving Reno crazy every time he thought she was doing something wrong.
    "Raven, this isn't a game." His voice roughened with his anger. "She's going to get killed."
    "And you can't help her?" Was she wrong about him? "Do you really have to worry Reno to the point that I have to cancel my honeymoon because you can't do what Reno would do? Reno would have protected me. He wouldn't have called you home, Clint."
    "Reno loved you, Raven." He sighed. "He always has. There's a difference."
    "And you don't love Morganna? Even a little, Clint? Enough to give her just a little of what you would give a total stranger if you were on a mission? What happened to you, Clint, that you hate her so much?"
    "I don't hate her." He ground the words through the phone line.
    No, he didn't hate Morganna, and Raven knew it. Just as she once had, he was fighting everything he felt, everything he wanted. Reno had broken through that fight, though, and it made her realize how much she was missing out on by missing out on him. She thanked God every day that he had done so.
    "Reno will jerk her to a safe house, and he'll stand guard over her like the terrified brother he'll be," she murmured.
    "Hell yeah," Clint snapped. "Why do you think I'm calling?"
    "And in doing so, he'll alienate his sister forever, taking the last tie she has to a family. She'll never forgive him, Clint. And she'll never forgive you if you do it, either. Please don't hurt her like that. Don't steal her dreams, Clint."
    "Party girls shouldn't play grown-up games," he snarled. "She isn't experienced enough for this."
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    "And you know Morganna now about as well as you knew her when she was a teenager," Raven said sadly. "Why not try looking past the makeup and pretty clothes, brother mine? You might be surprised at what you find."
    As the shower shut off, she disconnected the phone and tucked it back in her purse, then she breathed in a hard, desperate breath. God, if anything happened to Morganna, Reno would never, ever forgive her.
    Morganna was the last family tie he had left, and he worshipped his sister. Raged at her sometimes, rarely understood her, but he loved her, as only an older brother could.
    And Raven knew she would never forgive herself, either. Morganna was the closest thing to a sister that Raven had ever known. If anything happened to Morganna, Raven would always know that by telling her husband the truth she could have saved her.
    "Raven?" She jerked as Reno's voice, soft, inquiring, spoke behind her.
    She turned to him, amazed anew at the man who was now her husband. She had sworn she would never marry a SEAL, that she would never trust her heart to a man in such a dangerous profession. He had changed her mind. He had shown her how much, she truly did need him. For as long as she could hold him.
    "That was fast." She tightened the belt of her robe and walked into his arms, feeling the strength and hardness of his arms enfolding her.
    "I missed you in there with me. What was so important out here?"
    "Checking up on my