Chapter 6Smoke hadn’t told anyone his real name in a long time. No one currently on Alpha Team knew it. No one on Alpha Team cared, and it only opened liabilities. If they were captured by the authorities, by someone like Gin, they wouldn’t be able to tell someone anything they didn’t know. It had been Smoke’s idea, a legacy from his time living on the streets.
And here he’d gone and blurted out his real name to Gin like it wasn’t going to come back and bite him in the ass. Because those eyes, those lips, those hands—they all did a number on Smoke, and he didn’t even want to bother hiding it anymore. It wasn’t even just his looks, either. Gin was a guy who, after surviving something terrible, actually regretted that he hadn’t found a way to save others. He legitimately believed he owed sa
