Chapter One
The feeling of being unprotected was one he knew well, a feeling no one should have to live with. Mark wondered when his instincts had become so deeply embedded, the warning that sent the hair on the back of his neck standing up whenever anything was off.
It was a feeling that just wouldn’t fade.
Mark could never be vulnerable, and though he would never be willing to admit to his weaknesses, he didn’t take kindly to the familiar sense of unease. After his fellow officers suddenly turned on him, everything he did had gone under a microscope, with problems coming at him in a way he couldn’t have explained reasonably.
That had been a painful lesson that he was the only person he could count on.
Maybe it was why his lone-wolf mentality had become so deeply entrenched.
He took
