BCC01 - Issued to the Bride One Navy SEAL by Seton Cora

Author:Seton, Cora [Seton, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781927036938
Google: La9xDQAAQBAJ
Amazon: B01MYM9894
Publisher: One Acre Press
Published: 2016-11-12T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

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When Brian came down to find Lena loitering in the kitchen the next morning, he instantly knew she had something she wanted to say to him. Instead of asking her outright, however, he moved to fix himself a simple breakfast of toast and fruit, figuring she’d speak up when she was ready. She fiddled with the calendar hanging on the wall near the refrigerator, then suddenly asked, “Have you ever worked below-decks on a Nimitz-Class?”

“An aircraft carrier?” Somehow he doubted that was really what she wanted to know, but he remembered the weed-whacker she’d been disassembling the first time he met her. She was definitely interested in motors. “I’m a SEAL, not a technician. Sorry.” He hid a grin. Was he actually apologizing for being a SEAL? That was a first.

“Ah.” Her disappointment was clear, but still she lingered. “You ever deal with insubordination?”

Brian laughed outright. “Hell, yeah. Dished it out a bunch, too.”

“Right. Is that why you’re here?”

That was a little too close to the mark. “I’ve gotten myself into a little trouble now and then,” he hedged.

“If you tell someone to do something, and they don’t do it, then what? Without asking someone else to take over?”

Brian sat down at the table with his food. “That’s always the issue, isn’t it? The Navy has some pretty strong built-in fail-safes to stop a mutiny in its tracks. Everyone involved knows what they are. The disincentives outweigh the incentives most of the time. Don’t want to find yourself in front of a firing squad, so to speak.”

“Makes sense.” She hesitated. “See you around.”

Her abrupt dismissal of the topic didn’t fool him, but again he knew he couldn’t push too hard. “Lena, let me know if there’s any way I can help… without taking over.” He didn’t think she’d go for that, but he figured he might as well put it out there. He wondered who was giving her trouble. The hands?

She shrugged. “I’ll be in the Park around one,” she said, confirming his guess. She left without saying more, but Brian got the message. He decided he’d be in the Park around one, as well. In the meantime, he had an errand to run in town.

An hour and a half later, he stood at the center of the hedge maze and stared up at the standing stone. He had to admit it had a certain presence. About ten feet tall, an irregular rectangle, its surface was rough to the touch—warm from the sun.

The bright sun that had dawned this morning was fading, though, in advance of storm clouds on the horizon. Brian had squinted at them on his way to the maze and judged he had a little time before it hit. Enough for what he wanted to do. Alice had weathered some hard blows in the last few days, and he hadn’t been kind when she told him about her premonitions. He wanted to make up for that if he could.

Still, the stone held his attention. Who had

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