Five Fingers of Death by Giulia Lagomarsino

Refers to the five primary methods of killing an enemy or neutralizing a threat.
Firepower, maneuver, intelligence, logistics, communication.

It was practically a code I lived by.
After serving for years under Rafe, it was highly unlikely I’d change a damn thing about that code. He’d ingrained every ounce of that mentality into my head, and that was after the military did it first.
But now he was dead, and the one person I’d always pushed away was the only person I couldn’t keep off my mind. So, I went to her, willing to risk it all to see if she’d have me.
But I was too late.
All those dreams went out the window in a flash, leaving me with the one secret she’d managed to keep from me all these years.
And that secret came in the form of a small, adorable girl.