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  Forty Days and One Knight

  Trident Security Omega Team Book 2

  Samantha A. Cole

  Suspenseful Seduction Publishing

  Contents

  Who’s Who and the History of Trident Security and The Covenant

  Prologue

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Epilogue

  Other Books By Samantha A. Cole

  About the Author

  Who’s Who and the History of Trident Security and The Covenant

  ***While not every character is in every book, these are the ones with the most mentions throughout the series. This guide will help keep readers straight about who’s who.

  Trident Security (TS) is a private investigative and military agency, co-owned by Ian and Devon Sawyer. With governmental and civilian contracts, the company got its start when the brothers and a few of their teammates from SEAL Team Four retired to the private sector. The original six-man team is referred to as the Sexy Six-Pack, as they were dubbed by Kristen Sawyer, née Anders, or the Alpha Team. Trident had since expanded and former members of the military and law enforcement have been added to the staff. The company is located on a guarded compound, which was a former import/export company cover for a drug trafficking operation in Tampa, Florida. Three warehouses on the property were converted into large apartments, the TS offices, gym, and bunk rooms. There is also an obstacle course, a Main Street shooting gallery, a helicopter pad, and more features necessary for training and missions.

  In addition to the security business, there is a fourth warehouse that now houses an elite BDSM club, co-owned by Devon, Ian, and their cousin, Mitch Sawyer, who is the manager. A lot of time and money has gone into making The Covenant the most sought after membership in the Tampa/St. Petersburg area and beyond. Members are thoroughly vetted before being granted access to the elegant club.

  There are currently over fifty Doms who have been appointed Dungeon Masters (DMs), and they rotate two or three shifts each throughout the month. At least four DMs are on duty at all times at various posts in the pit, playrooms, and the new garden, with an additional one roaming around. Their job is to ensure the safety of all the submissives in the club. They step in if a sub uses their safeword and the Dom in the scene doesn’t hear or heed it, and make sure the equipment used in scenes isn’t harming the subs.

  The Covenant’s security team takes care of everything else that isn’t scene-related, and provides safety for all members and are essentially the bouncers. With the recent addition of the garden, and more private, themed rooms, the owners have expanded their self-imposed limit of 350 members. The fire marshal had approved them for 500 when the warehouse-turned-kink club first opened, but the cousins had intentionally kept that number down to maintain an elite status. Now with more room, they are increasing the membership to 500, still under the new maximum occupancy of 720.

  Between Trident Security and The Covenant there’s plenty of romance, suspense, and steamy encounters. Come meet the Sexy Six-Pack, their friends, family, and teammates.

  The Sexy Six-Pack (Alpha Team)

  and Their Significant Others

  Ian “Boss-man” Sawyer: Devon and Nick’s brother; retired Navy SEAL; co-owner of Trident Security and The Covenant; husband/Dom of Angelina (Angel).

  Devon “Devil Dog” Sawyer: Ian and Nick’s brother; retired Navy SEAL; co-owner of Trident Security and The Covenant; husband/Dom of Kristen; father of John Devon “JD.”

  Ben “Boomer” Michaelson: retired Navy SEAL; explosives and ordnance specialist; husband/Dom of Katerina; son of Rick and Eileen.

  Jake “Reverend” Donovan: retired Navy SEAL; temporarily assigned to run the West Coast team; sniper; husband/Dom of Nick; brother of Mike; Whip Master at The Covenant.

  Brody “Egghead” Evans: retired Navy SEAL; computer specialist; husband/Dom of Fancy.

  Marco “Polo” DeAngelis: retired Navy SEAL; communications specialist and back up helicopter pilot; husband/Dom of Harper; father to Mara.

  Nick “Junior” Sawyer: Ian and Devon’s brother; current Navy SEAL; husband/submissive of Jake.

  Kristen “Ninja-girl” Sawyer: author of romance/suspense novels; wife/submissive of Devon; mother of “JD.”

  Angelina “Angie/Angel” Sawyer: graphic artist; wife/submissive of Ian.

  Katerina “Kat” Michaelson: dog trainer for law enforcement and private agencies; wife/submissive of Boomer.

  Millicent “Harper” DeAngelis: lawyer; wife/submissive of Marco; mother of Mara.

  Francine “Fancy” Maguire: baker; wife/submissive of Brody.

  Extended Family, Friends, and

  Associates of the Sexy Six-Pack

  Mitch Sawyer: Cousin of Ian, Devon, and Nick; co-owner/manager of The Covenant, Dom to Tyler and Tori.

  T. Carter: US spy and assassin; works for covert agency Deimos; Dom of Jordyn.

  Jordyn Alvarez: US spy and assassin; member of covert agency Deimos; submissive of Carter.

  Tyler Ellis: Stockbroker; lifestyle switch—Dom of Tori; submissive of Mitch.

  Tori Freyja: K9 trainer for veterans in need of assistance/service dogs; submissive of Mitch and Tyler.

  Parker Christiansen: owner of New Horizons Construction; husband/Dom of Shelby; adoptive father of Franco and Victor.

  Shelby Christiansen: stay-at-home mom; two-time cancer survivor; wife/submissive of Parker; adoptive mother of Franco and Victor.

  Curt Bannerman: retired Navy SEAL; owner of Halo Customs, a motorcycle repair and detail shop; husband of Dana; stepfather of Ryan, Taylor, Justin, and Amanda. Lives in Iowa.

  Dana Prichard-Bannerman: teacher; widow of retired SEAL Eric Prichard; wife of Curt; mother of Ryan, Taylor, Justin, and Amanda. Lives in Iowa.

  Jenn “Baby-girl” Mullins: college student; goddaughter of Ian; “niece” of Devon, Brody, Jake, Boomer, and Marco; father was a Navy SEAL; parents murdered.

  Mike Donovan: owner of the Irish pub, Donovan’s; brother of Jake; submissive to Charlotte.

  Charlotte “Mistress China” Roth: Parole officer; Domme and Whip Master at The Covenant; Domme of Mike.

  Travis “Tiny” Daultry: former professional football player; head of security at The Covenant and Trident compound; occasional bodyguard for TS.

  Doug “Bullseye” Henderson: retired Marine; head of the Personal Protection Division of TS.

  Rick and Eileen Michaelson: Boomer’s parents; guardians of Alyssa. Rick is a retired Navy SEAL.

  Charles “Chuck” and Marie Sawyer: Ian, Devon, and Nick’s parents. Charles is a self-made real estate billionaire. Marie is a plastic surgeon involved wit
h Operation Smile.

  Will Anders: Assistant Curator of the Tampa Museum of Art Kristen Anders’s cousin.

  Dr. Roxanne London: pediatrician; Domme/wife (Mistress Roxy) of Kayla; Whip Master at Covenant.

  Kayla London: social worker; submissive/wife of Roxanne.

  Grayson and Remington Mann: twins; owners of Black Diamond Records; Doms/fiancés of Abigail; members of The Covenant.

  Abigail Turner: personal assistant at Black Diamond Records; submissive/fiancée of Gray and Remi.

  Chase Dixon: retired Army Ranger; owner of Blackhawk Security; associate of TS.

  Reggie Helm: lawyer for TS and The Covenant; Dom/husband of Colleen.

  Alyssa Wagner: teenager saved by Jake from an abusive father; lives with Rick and Eileen Michaelson.

  Dr. Trudy Dunbar: Psychologist.

  Carl Talbot: college professor; Dom and Whip Master at The Covenant.

  Jase Atwood: Contract agent/mercenary; Lives on the island of St. Lucia; Dom of Brie.

  Brie Hanson: Owner of Daddy-O’s in St. Lucia; submissive of Jase.

  Tahira: Princess of Timasur, a small North African nation.

  The Omega Team and

  Their Significant Others

  Cain “Shades” Foster: retired Secret Service agent.

  Tristan “Duracell” McCabe: retired Army Special Forces

  Logan “Cowboy” Reese: retired Marine Special Forces; former prisoner of war. Boyfriend/Dom of Dakota.

  Valentino “Romeo” Mancini: retired Army Special Forces; former FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) member.

  Darius “Batman” Knight: retired Navy SEAL.

  Kip “Skipper” Morrison: retired Army; former LAPD SWAT sniper.

  Lindsey “Costello” Abbott: retired Marine; sniper.

  Dakota Swift: Tampa PD undercover police officer; submissive girlfriend to Logan.

  Trident Support Staff

  Colleen McKinley-Helm: office manager of TS; wife/submissive of Reggie.

  Tempest “Babs” Van Buren: retired Air Force helicopter pilot; TS mechanic.

  Russell Adams: retired Navy; assistant TS mechanic.

  Nathan Cook: former computer specialist with the National Security Agency (NSA).

  Members of Law Enforcement

  Larry Keon: Assistant Director of the FBI.

  Frank Stonewall: Special Agent in Charge of the Tampa FBI.

  Calvin Watts: Leader of the FBI HRT in Tampa.

  Colt Parrish: Major Case Specialist, Behavioral Analysis Unit.

  The K9s of Trident

  Beau: An orphaned Lab/Pit mix, rescued by Ian. Now a trained K9 who has more than earned his spot on the Alpha Team.

  Spanky: A rescued Bullmastiff with a heart of gold, owned by Parker and Shelby.

  Jagger: A rescued Rottweiler trained as an assistance/service animal for Russell.

  FUBAR: A Belgian Malinois who failed aggressive guard dog training. Adopted by Babs.

  BDSM: Bravo, Delta, Sierra, and Mike, two Belgian Malinoises and two German shepherds, the guard dogs at the Trident compound: Ian named them using the military communication’s alphabet.

  Prologue

  “What the hell do you mean Princess Tahira’s been kidnapped?” Ian Sawyer barked into the phone. Sitting at her desk in front of him, Colleen Helm’s eyes grew wide. Then, proving she’d become a efficient office manager since starting at Trident Security almost three years ago, she used a texting program on her computer to send a message demanding all available operatives to report to the firm’s compound.

  “Exactly what I said,” responded Mousaf Amar, head of security for the royal family of Timasur, a small country in Northern Africa. “The princess left the cruise ship and went ashore at Montego Bay, Jamaica, with her two cousins and two members of her security detail. They rented an SUV to take them to a waterfall about an hour away from the port, and that was about six hours ago. I just received word my men were found shot to death next to their rental in the park’s lot. Princess Tahira, Lahana, and Nala are missing.

  “It seems they were getting ready to leave the park about two hours ago when they were attacked. The guards’ weapons and IDs were taken, but the police were able to identify them through fingerprints and the rental agreement. They contacted us as soon as they realized what they were dealing with. According to their investigation so far, no gunshots were heard and there are no witnesses.”

  “Suppressors—that means they were hit by professionals; more than one if they were able to get the drop on your men.” The royal security teams were highly skilled men, and Ian had seen them in action on more than one occasion during training exercises.

  He strode purposely into the war-room where Nathan Cook, one of Trident’s two resident tech geeks, was sitting in front of his massive console. The man looked up with his eyebrows raised, and Ian used a finger to silently tell him to hang on a sec. “So, we have no idea who took them or where they might be.”

  “No, we don’t. There has been no ransom demand and no one claiming responsibility. If Her Royal Highness or her cousins could contact us, they would have. I need your help, my friend. I’m on my way from Timasur, but you can get a team there faster.”

  “What’s the name of the falls they were at?”

  “Dunn’s River Falls and Park.”

  Ian repeated the name to Nathan. “Get me eyes there, pronto. I doubt there are any decent security cameras around but check anyway. Patch into the traffic cams and any at the airports and marinas. Find out if any satellites have images from four to five hours ago over that park. Princess Tahira is missing, probably kidnapped. Run her picture through the imaging software. Find her—now!”

  Leaving the former NSA employee to do what he did best, Ian headed to the conference room, with the phone still to his ear. “I’ll get boots on the ground as soon as possible. Do you have a contact with the police?”

  “Inspector Jamal Lewis is the man in charge. Lahana’s brother, Farid, and his friend were supposed to be chaperoning the women during the trip, but they didn’t want to go to the falls and were to meet up with them afterward for a late lunch. They haven’t heard from the women either.”

  Filing that bit of information in his head for later, Ian jotted down the name of the inspector on a scrap piece of paper. “I’ll contact you as soon as I have any information. What time do you expect to land?”

  “In approximately ten hours at Sangstar International. I have five men with me.”

  “I’ll have cars waiting for you. We’ll get her back, Amar.” Disconnecting the call, Ian shouted to be heard out in the reception area. “Colleen, call CC and tell him to get his ass to the airport—taking off in less than an hour, heading to Montego Bay, Jamaica!”

  “On it!”

  Knowing the company’s pilot would have their private jet ready to go as soon as possible, Ian sat back in his chair and ran a hand down his face. All available personnel would be arriving shortly, but it would be a mix of both teams. Brody Evans, Trident’s other computer geek and one of seven retired Navy SEALs who were now co-owners of the company, was returning from his honeymoon too late that evening to come with them. Two more co-owners, Marco DeAngelis and Ben Michaelson, were on a joint-task force assignment with operatives from Deimos, a US-government, black-ops agency most people didn’t even know existed. Darius Knight, Lindsey Abbott, and Valentino Mancini, from the Omega Team, were down in Argentina on an undercover op. So that left Nick Donovan, the youngest Sawyer brother, his husband, Jake Donovan, Tristan McCabe, Cain Foster, and Kip Morrison available to fly down to Jamaica with Ian. His other brother, Devon, and Logan Reese would have to stay behind and hold down the fort in Tampa.

  Ian hoped to God they’d be able to figure out who’d kidnapped the princess and the others. While he’d been helping to protect the royal family for several years, it wasn’t until he and his wife Angie had gotten engaged and accepted an invitation from King Rajeemh and Queen Azhar to visit them in Timasur’s capital city of Diado, tha
t he’d gotten to know Tahira better. She’d matured over the past two years and, although she still liked to drive her bodyguards nuts with shopping sprees and flirting with the ones who were single, she no longer acted like a spoiled child. She’d even gotten involved in charity work. Last year, the princess and her brother, Prince Raj, had attended Ian and Angie’s wedding. Their parents had been unable to join them due to Her Royal Majesty recovering from an illness.

  Picking up the phone, Ian hit the speed dial to the small studio that’d recently been built on the west side of the TS compound. Angie, an artist, and Devon’s wife, Kristen, an author, had moved their workstations into it, getting them out of their respective apartments for a few hours each day. The other buildings housed the Trident offices, a gym and indoor shooting range, and The Covenant, a BDSM club owned by Ian, Devon, and their cousin Mitch.

  As he waited for the call to be picked up, he let out a heavy sigh. His pregnant wife was going to flip when he told her about Tahira, but since he’d just gotten back in her good graces, Ian wasn’t going to keep it a secret from her. She’d divorce him if he did. “I’m getting too old for this shit.”