When his lover is killed while they're on a job, Kegan goes into seclusion, vowing never to return to the Agency, the covert organization they worked for. His handler has other ideas, tricking Kegan into coming back, then partnering him with Gage to find and eliminate Ash, a rogue operative.<br><br>Kegan and Gage locate Ash only to discover he's on the run because he found out that Patterson, the head of the Agency, is not what he seems. When the three men team up to bring Patterson down, will their budding personal relationship save them -- or get them killed?

You Can Never Walk Away

All Kegan could see was that they’d pulled off a narrow dirt road—which ended at the edge of a lake—to park under trees so dense with hanging Spanish moss that they hid the car from view. There was a rickety dock, at the edge of the lake, but no boat, that he could see. He said as much.


Ash told him not to worry. “If I left out where someone could find it, it could end up God only knows where. Wait here.” He disappeared into the trees, returning a few minutes later dragging what looked like a large, flat-bottomed canoe behind him.


“What the hell is that, and is it safe?” Gage asked, looking doubtful.


“It’s a pirogue, and it’s damned safe. It’s also the only way to navigate through the bayou to my place.”


“We don’t need no stinking oars. We use a pole,” Ash told him. “Or rather, I do, since I know what I’m doing and where we’re going.” He slid the pirogue into the water, tying it off at the dock while they put their gear into it.


Chapter 21