Free Mackie's Men by Lynn Ray Lewis

personal security guard, I assess any and all possible threats to her well being.” She looked directly at Drummond Klinger, “My name is Maxine Vaught, I think you might have heard the name before.”
    She bowed her head acknowledging the men and stepped back, before walking toward the front doors. Her self-appointed task was done. If she was mistaken, they might be a bit pissy, but if she was right, and there was a threat, they would know it was there.
    The puzzle of why Eric had been a target made perfect sense now. Drones were just interactive videogames, controlled by remote flight simulators, and the younger man developed those games. Ha, and she didn’t even need to research that out. Score one for her . She needed to speak with the General about something else too.

    Liam was trying to make his way through the crowd of people to see who it was they were having such a cozy chat with. When she walked away from the elders, he would’ve sworn it was the woman who mocked him in his dreams. By the time he made it to the men, she was gone. They were scowling and leaning close to each other. “What happened?”
    His father looked almost relieved to see him. “We might have an issue, it seems Senator Downs’ bodyguard saw someone creeping around on the second floor, the Senator left immediately and the guard stayed to warn us. She just left. We are trying to decide what the best course of action we should take without causing a riot.”
    “Well first, I know Darryl Reynolds is upstairs, I just saw him heading that way a few minutes ago, so I think we need to sit tight until he reports in. If he tells us to get people moving out, we’ll worry about it then.” Thoughts of Maxine Vaught left as he considered the best way to move three hundred people out of the building without causing a panic.
    His cell vibrated and he checked to see who the message was from. “Situation neutralized, party on!” Darryl was being witty.
    “It looks like there was an intruder, Darryl says party on, so he has the intruder in custody.” His father was looking at him strangely, and he asked, “What?”
    Now that Drummond had met the woman who had saved his nephew and his family, and had also saved Liam, he could see the attraction she inspired in his son. She was a beautiful woman. Statuesque, curved, and self-assured. The woman was capable with weapons and after tonight, he had to add that she was a very observant trained security guard.
    “Oh nothing, son, we briefly met your mystery GI Jane.” Mason Klinger was eighty-two years old, but he acted like a man half his age most of the time, especially around beautiful women. “You should grab ahold of that one, sonny, she has, well, let me just say I wouldn’t kick her out of my bed if I could talk her into it.”
    He knew it, the woman he’d spied earlier was Mackie. At least he now knew she was in the area. If she were a member of Senator Downs’ security team, it would explain a few things. It also gave him a way to contact her. His grandfather was right, if he got her into his bed, he planned to make it a memorable experience for both of them.
    The woman was a mystery and he had been trying to find her for too damn long. She had been impossible to forget, and after a few nights of drinking and talking, his friends told him the same woman was haunting their dreams. As Darryl put it.
    “She was like what I always imagined an Amazon or Valkyrie would have been back in the day. I tried to make it to her before Tyler shot her, but I was on the other side of Eric’s SUV when I heard the shot. I looked up and started running, but it was too late.” He’d shaken his head, as baffled as Liam had been at the time. “I keep dreaming about that face of hers, the scars, the whole thing, and let me tell you, if I ever get her near a bed and she’d healthy, I’m not surfacing for a week. I can’t dig up much on the woman, but I’d bet she has one hell of a story, if she were to share