A SEAL's Oath (SEALs of Chance Creek Book 1) by Cora Seton

Author:Cora Seton [Seton, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781927036839
Publisher: One Acre Press
Published: 2016-01-09T23:00:00+00:00

Boone set the picnic basket he carried down onto the grass. “Afternoon, ladies. Hope you enjoyed your jaunt around town.”

“We did,” Savannah said with enthusiasm. “We met so many people.”

“All our old friends have grown up, haven’t they?” Riley said.

“I haven’t had a chance to find that out. I will soon, though.” Boone nudged the basket with his foot. “Figured you’d be hungry by now. I brought dinner.”

“That was nice of you.” Avery bent down to pick up the basket. “Come inside and join us.”

Boone followed the women through the manor to a large, old-fashioned kitchen. It had been updated sometime in the last few decades with a decent electric stove and refrigerator, but there was no dishwasher and by the looks of things, the women were doing their best to keep use of the appliances to a minimum. He wondered why. “Dinner isn’t anything special. Just what I had on hand.”

Avery chuckled. “I’d be happy with a PB&J right about now.”

“Your wish is my command.” Boone opened the basket, which Avery had set on the table, and handed a sandwich to her. “PB&J’s are just the appetizer, though.” He made short work of starting a fire with the wood that was handy, opened a couple of cans of soup with the can opener he’d packed along, and looked around for a pot. Avery handed him the one they’d been using to cook over the fire. “Perfect. Thanks.”

It wasn’t long before the soup was bubbling. Meanwhile he handed out more of the sandwiches he’d made down at the bunkhouse. As the women ate, they became talkative, filling him in on the adventures of their day and all the people they’d met.

“I’ll have to stop by and talk with Mason,” he said. “I only bumped into him once the whole time I was with the SEALs.”

“You wouldn’t believe the transformation—all those boys. Well, they aren’t boys anymore,” Riley said, biting into her sandwich with relish.

“They weren’t boys when they left.”

“Sure they were. You were, too. I guess you don’t stay innocent once you enlist, though.” Perched on one of the dining room chairs, a sandwich in her hand, Riley looked so much like the teenager she’d once been it tugged at Boone’s heart.

“Honey, if you think I was innocent when I left Chance Creek, you were thoroughly deluded.”

He’d meant it as a joke, but Riley turned thoughtful and as much as he tried to draw her out, she didn’t speak much more during the meal.

Afterward, he caught up to her outside when she went to hang the wet dishrags on the line. “What’s up?”

“What do you mean?” She pinned up the damp squares one at a time.

“You know what I mean. Did I say something wrong?”

At first he thought she wouldn’t answer. When she finally turned to him, her expression was guarded. “You said you weren’t innocent when you left Chance Creek.”

“So?”

“When you left, I lost my innocence, too. Not that way—” She shrugged. “My spiritual innocence, I guess. I lost my friends, my childhood, my self-respect.

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