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this.”
    “I don’t need your thanks,” he said brusquely before turning toward the road and glancing both ways.
    Oh right, this was just a job for him. Well, job or not, she was still damn thankful for his presence.

Chapter 4

    Sawyer parked his truck behind Zoe’s two-door car, automatically scanning the exterior of her house and neighbors’ homes. It was eight a.m. so some people were already leaving; parents with kids and others dressed in business attire. No one appeared out of the ordinary and no one looked like Braddock Klein.
    Blue had sent him a detailed file on Klein last night after Sawyer had more or less volunteered to shadow Zoe today. His friend had planned to use one of Mina’s security guys to trail Zoe, but Sawyer was having none of that. His training was officially over today and he started with his new team on Monday. They could put someone else on her then if necessary. But he wanted to look out for her now and over the weekend, and he wasn’t going to examine why too closely. He just knew he wanted her safe. He also knew that had nothing to do with a sense of duty because she was Vincent’s sister and everything to do with her specifically. The woman intrigued him.
    Shutting his door behind him, he met Zoe as she was getting out of her car. A breeze blew up and her curls bounced softly in the wind. An unbidden image of what it would feel like to run his fingers through her hair while she was naked and under him entered his mind, but he locked that down. He was on the job and her safety was more important than his fucking libido.
    “Did it seem as if anyone was following us?” she asked, an anxious frown creasing her brow.
    “Nope.” He was good at locating a single tail, but if someone was working with a full team or in tandem with a partner, then it became more difficult. Since Klein seemed to be a one-man stalker, Sawyer was almost certain they hadn’t been followed.
    “Thank God,” she muttered, glancing around nervously.
    Yeah, what Sawyer wouldn’t give to kick this guy’s ass. Seeing fear on Zoe’s face sliced at him. He’d spent most of his adult life fighting terrorists and when you got right down to it, they were nothing but psychotic bullies who wanted the world to see everything their way. Now everything about Zoe’s life was being affected by a bully with an ego. That brought out all his protective instincts whether he wanted it to or not. “You set your alarm yesterday, right?”
    She nodded and palmed her keys. “Yes, so if it’s off…” She trailed off, not needing to finish.
    After they entered her house, the insistent beep of her alarm sounded and he could see the tension leave her body as she pressed the code into the keypad. He locked the front door behind them then ordered her to stay put. Her eyes widened at his tone, but he didn’t have time to reassure her. He needed to sweep her house.
    Withdrawing his SIG, he held it at his side as he methodically swept each room. She had a three-bedroom, two-bath home in a higher end part of town and close to the practice she worked at. Her neighborhood had lake access, though her house wasn’t on the water and from the file Blue had given him, they had twenty-four-seven security driving around or sitting in the guard house he’d seen when they’d entered the subdivision. But it didn’t appear to be actually gated, something he hadn’t liked. He planned to ask her about that later.
    Once he was certain the house was secure he found Zoe standing in her foyer next to an oversized floor vase, her arms crossed over her chest. “House is secure.”
    “Thank you. And next time, if there is one, ask me to stay put, don’t order me around.”
    He’d taken plenty of orders in the Navy, but for the most part he’d given them, especially on missions. His instinct was to tell her that he’d just been doing his job, but he could stand to use some finesse, especially where Zoe was concerned. “My apologies.”
    She