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

A few minutes later, dressed and with his longish hair reasonable tamed, he went into the main room.


“The sleeper awakens,” Ash said, looking over from the kitchen. “We can eat now.”


Gage snorted. “That can be taken two ways.”


“Mind out of the gutter,” Ash replied with a grin. “We have oatmeal or oatmeal. Take your choice.”


Kegan chuckled. “I think…oatmeal.”


“Figured as much.” Ash filled three bowls from the pot on the stove, stuck spoons in them, then handed one to Kegan and to Gage, who was sitting on the sofa. “He’s been lazing around since he got up,” Ash told Kegan, “so he gets cleanup duty. You want coffee?”


“I’d kill for real coffee,” Gage muttered. Since what Ash had was instant, with dry creamer instead of the real thing, Kegan agreed with him.


They finished eating, Gage did the dishes, then at Kegan’s suggestion, they settled down to figure out how to get to their next target, handler John Franklin.


Chapter 24