Free Cord SEAL Team Seven (Book 5) by Jordan Silver Page B

anything; we can’t even leave the property without them knowing. When will they learn? Hopefully before Cord takes the skin off my ass. I like his special spankings, but his punishments for disobedience are a whole other story, and quite frankly I’m getting tired of bearing the brunt of these women’s escapades.
    Cord lectures me every morning before we start the day about being safe. It’s as if he thinks if I’m out of his sight for more than ten minutes I’ll disappear. I used to think his over protectiveness was just par for the course, but lately I’ve come to realize that it was a lot more than that.
    After Vicki had been attacked, it had really hit home that the guys weren’t just keeping us under lock and key to be a pain in the ass, but that there was real danger lurking. If only they’d tell us what it was we were being protected from, then maybe these ladies wouldn’t be losing their minds and getting into stuff.
    “Gaby you sure Logan doesn’t have a tap on that phone?” That stopped them in their tracks. “Oh shit, Kat we gotta go, I’ll try to call back later but if you hear anything before then give us a call.” She hung up and looked around the room as if expecting Logan to jump out at her.
    “You’re good they haven’t moved over there, though I can’t see inside so who knows.” Everything about this place was so secretive. These men make the commander’s paranoia seem tame. He was always telling Davey and I about staying safe, always had some new gadget or other that was supposed to safeguard us. Then he went and got himself killed, and that I’d only learnt by snooping. So I guess I can’t blame the others for doing the same. Before that, my brother and I had believed the nice old man had died of a heart attack or something.
    Where he’d left off, Cord and his brothers had taken up. Now he treats my brother like one of his own and for that alone I adore him, it’s everything else about him that had sent me tumbling head over heals in love with him. And loving him the way I have come to, all I want is for him to love me the same. To be everything he needed me to be. It’s a fear I’ve been fighting hard to overcome.
    But when I look at my new sisters, I wonder if I match up. We’re all so completely different, and until Vicki came along I was worried that these guys only went for society types. I wouldn’t blame them; they’re all hot, rich and from my estimation, can have any woman they want.
    Vanessa was more like Vicki and me, but she was one of them, a soldier. Though the way the guys treat her you wouldn’t know the difference. With these men as long as she’s not on the battlefield, she’s like the rest of us. Vicki was more street-smart, my kind of girl. But it was hard not to love Gaby and Dani even with their silver spoon backgrounds.
    “If we want to get out of here anytime soon, we need to figure out what’s going on. The guys aren’t telling us squat and it’s our lives too.” Gaby is a bit high strung, she usually starts shit, the rest of us try to talk her out of it, but somehow always end up going along, and then we get caught, it never fails.
    “I’m not getting into trouble for you clowns again, besides, I don’t have a wedding that has been put on hold, so why should I stick my neck out?” This was my last play. I’ve tried everything else to get them to behave but nothing works. I wasn’t bitter that Cord hadn’t asked me to marry him or anything. Yeah right.
    “Don’t kid yourself, if Cord hasn’t put a ring on your finger yet it’s only because he’s been so caught up in this mess that he hasn’t had time to get one. Trust me, if you’re here with us you’re as good as wed.” Vanessa smirked and patted the baby’s back as she nodded off.
    If that’s true, I wonder what that ring would look like. Would it match the special chain he’d placed around my waist just the night before? If I keep this up I’m gonna ruin my underwear.