Officer
Finn Hallan has never run from a fight. With Niall’s life
and love at stake, he’s not about to start now…
Part
of the All Romance Alpha series
Finn Hallan is a member of the elite Norwegian
Emergency Response Unit, code name Delta. When the team is sent to respond to a
hostage situation on a Oil Platform in the Norwegian Sea, he has to face demons
he thought he had buried a long time ago.
Scottish engineer Niall Faulkner’s skills in oil
platform decommissioning takes him to the Forseti platform at the worst
possible time. When he’s captured by terrorists, his only thought is that he
will never get to tell his lover how he really feels.
Can Finn keep Niall alive? Or will they both die at
the hands of hijackers in the frigid waters of the Norwegian sea?
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Chapter
1
“This is the second fucking time we’ve had to do
this and I’m telling you now I’m not staying for the whole thing.”
Finn Hallan glanced over at his teammate and
wondered if he should check him for any visible weapons. Erik was one of those
guys who was never happy about sitting still, let alone in a meeting as seminar
dealing with health and safety.
“Cap’s not going to like you backing out of this,”
Finn warned. He was just as restless, too used to action and getting on with
things instead of sitting here in a briefing room listening to changes in
policy. Thing is, this shit was statutory and Cap had made Finn and Erik
attend, in case there was anything important about oil platform safety. Finn
was certainly not going up against Cap, and he knew Erik needed to keep his ass
in the chair if he wanted to stay on the team.
Delta was a highly sought after group of people to
join and if you made it you didn’t refuse to sit in meetings that you’d been
ordered into.
“We need a serious emergency,” Erik groused. “A
hostage negotiation or at the very least a terrorist threat.”
The woman in front of him turned and frowned at the
words, but she took one look at both Erik and Finn and turned back to face the
front. Finn knew they looked out of place. Both in the dark dress colours of
the Delta uniform, not long off duty, they probably gave the impression of some
kind of hardass security detail. Certainly not the kind of guys you told to
shut up. She would know who they were, members of the ERU, codenamed Delta, and
the ones who policed for terrorist activities in Norway and out into the
Norwegian sea. Which, incidentally, was where most of these NorsDev employees
in the briefing worked.
Erik grinned and raised his eyebrows suggestively
before cupping his groin and looking pointedly at the back of the blonde’s
head. Finn shook his head. She was a NorsDev exec and everyone knew the
high-ups at the energy company had nothing to say to the ranks. If only she
knew how much Finn and Erik could do for her if she was in trouble, if only she
was aware of the kind of men they really were—ones who never sat still—then
maybe she’d be a little more understanding of the boredom factor.
The presentation on the large screen at the front
of the room switched to a new slide with a name in block capitals. NIALL
FAULKNER. Not a name that Finn recognized and he couldn’t help the groan when
he saw the line under the name. Platform Decommissioning Engineer.
“Oh Jesus fuck. Save me from nerds with clipboards
and PowerPoints. I think my last brain cell up and died,” Erik muttered.
The speaker indicated the slide, “And now I’d like
to hand it over to Niall Faulkner. Some of you will recall Niall was
responsible for the X220 additions.” A ripple of murmurs around the room
indicated that at least some knew what the hell that meant. Evidently this
Faulkner guy was someone with a name at NorsDev. A man stood in the front row
of the lecture theatre and made his way up the four steps to the stage,
tripping on the last step and grabbing at the retreating previous speaker as he
left. Luckily the new guy, Niall, Finn assumed, didn’t fall flat on his face,
but he couldn’t help the smile on his face. It was funny shit seeing someone
fall over.
Niall made his way to the lectern, looking down at
his notes and shuffling them into some kind of order. The main spotlight
flickered then focused directly on him and Finn had an instant gut reaction to
the man on the stage.
Short and slim, with dark hair and glasses, he was
the hottest safety officer Finn had ever seen.
“Woo boy,” Erik said under his breath. “You
thinking he’s way to pretty to be a man?”
Finn didn’t dignify the comment with a response.
Erik was the only member of the Delta team who knew Finn was gay and that
comment was directly aimed at Finn and the fact Erik kept trying to get Finn
hooked up with someone. Anyone.
“Not my type,” Finn lied very quietly. Actually,
this Niall guy was pretty much the epitome of Finn’s type. Preppy with a side
order of nerdy was just exactly what Finn liked under him, or over him, or
hell, anyway which around him. And the glasses? Hell, glasses got him every
time.
“You think he’s batting on your team?” Erik asked.
“Absolutely,” Finn deadpanned.
About RJ
RJ Scott has been writing since age six, when she was made to stay in at lunchtime for an infraction involving cookies. She was told to write a story and two sides of paper about a trapped princess later, a lover of writing was born.
As an avid reader herself, she can be found reading anything from thrillers to sci-fi to horror. However, her first real true love will always be the world of romance where she takes cowboys, bodyguards, firemen and billionaires (to name a few) and writes dramatic and romantic stories of love and passion between these men.
With over sixty titles to her name and counting, she is the author of the award winning book, The Christmas Throwaway. She is also known for the Texas series charting the lives of Riley and Jack, and the Sanctuary series following the work of the Sanctuary Foundation and the people it protects.
Her goal is to write stories with a heart of romance, a troubled road to reach happiness, and most importantly, that hint of a happily ever after.
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