Free Finn: Scifi Alien Invasion Romance (Hell Squad Book 10) by Anna Hackett

soon caught up with her in an empty corridor.
    He grabbed her shoulder. “I don’t need a babysitter.”
    Green eyes looked up at him. “The doc thinks you do.”
    He growled.
    Lia sighed. “Look, I’ll let you do your thing. I’m only there in case of an emergency, and to find us a jet.”
    Finn felt a muscle tick in his jaw.
    “I know you’re good at flying, Finn. You won’t need me.”
    “What if I do?”
    “Do what?” she said frowning.
    “Need you.” He backed her up against the wall, pressing his body up against hers. Without another word, he crashed his mouth down on hers.
    She went still for a brief second, then her hands wrapped around his shoulders and she kissed him back. Finn slid his tongue inside her mouth, pulling the taste of her inside him.
    Then she yanked her mouth away from his. “We have to stop doing this.”
    “Why?” He pressed his mouth back against the side of her neck, nipping and tasting her skin.
    “Because…we’ll get attached. You don’t want that, right?”
    Hell . She was right. For a second, he wanted to say fuck it, but he thought of his family. The loss of them tore at him.
    Reluctantly, he pulled away from Lia’s warmth. “I need to meet with Noah to do work on the Hawk illusion system.”
    She straightened, tidying her hair. “I need to get prepped for this mission. I’ll get my drone organized, and be ready whenever you’re ready to go.”
    Finn really didn’t want to take Lia out there. Right into the heart of alien territory. A part of him desperately wanted to keep her safe.
    “See you soon, flyboy.”
    Finn forced himself to turn away from her and head toward the hangar. He needed to focus on the Hawk and the mission.
    He found Noah already there, and hard at work. It wasn’t Finn’s Hawk, but one of the others in their small fleet. He glanced over to where his girl sat, parked off to the side in a maintenance bay. He walked over to her.
    She was pretty beaten up. He knew the maintenance team was good and they’d do what they could to get her fixed. He patted her. “We saved each other, didn’t we?”
    He’d have her back soon enough. He went back over to join Noah. The tech genius was cursing.
    “How’s it going?”
    Noah scowled. “Like crap.”
    Finn bent over the diagnostic panel Noah was looking at. “Looks like you need my help.”
    Noah snorted. “I’ve got a few different things we can try.”
    They got to work. That involved a whole lot of circling around the Hawk, climbing into the cockpit, climbing out of the cockpit, trying a few tests, arguing, and swearing.
    Finn wasn’t sure how much time had passed, but when he looked up, he saw General Holmes standing nearby. His face was grim, and Finn knew he wasn’t going to like whatever the man was going to say.
    “I need you to step up the mission timetable,” Holmes said. “You need to head out within the hour.”
    “What’s happened?” Finn demanded.
    “We received a partial message from the Groom Lake Base in Nevada. It was garbled.” The man pressed his hands together, his jaw tight. “It sounds like the aliens have attacked them. We’re not really sure what their status is, as we couldn’t get a message back to them.”
    Shit . Finn could imagine the terror of the poor people at the base. They all knew what it had been like when Blue Mountain Base had been attacked.
    “Parts of the message are missing,” Holmes said in a frustrated voice. “But they mention an alien weapon.”
    Finn straightened. “Something we haven’t seen before?”
    The general nodded. “They said it’s something the aliens are building.” Holmes shook his head. “Not enough info came through. But whatever this is…they said it’s a humanity-ending device.”
    Finn bit down on the inside of his mouth. “Something to kill us off once and for all.”
    “We need to get the rest of the information. We need to get the amplifier out there.”
    Finn nodded and looked at Noah. “What we’ve