Big White Lie (Storm's Soldiers MC) by Paige Notaro

Author:Paige Notaro [Notaro, Paige]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New Adult Romance
Published: 2015-05-15T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

Calix

After a restless night in my quarters, I limped in to base to report for duty. Sgt. Lilton frowned deep the moment he saw me.

“You lied to me, you son of a bitch,” he growled. He looked like an angry grizzly - dark, round and packed with coiled muscle

My breath tightened. There was no way he could know a thing.

“That’s no damn graze,” he yelled directly at the wound. “It’s through your damn thigh, Corporal.”

I released my breath slowly. “It doesn’t feel so bad, Sergeant.”

“Uh-huh, yeah. I’m calling bullshit. Go check in with the medic.”

I did as asked. If I’d been told two years back that I’d be rolling over at the commands of a black man, I would have laughed. But Lilton took no shit. And I’d had commanders of all colors overseas that took no shit. I couldn’t have done well if I didn’t start listening.

In a way, the army had broken me down. Not completely. Not enough to make me forget the cause.

But at least enough to allow last night.

The pain in my leg was nothing compared to the scratch of that memory. I popped a pill to dull that more than anything else. The meds had led to this whole damn mess. The least they could do was help me forget.

Forget the feel of that raw dark skin damp around mine. Forget the feel of her body lush in my arms. Forget the sound of me suckling her full lips like I needed them to live.

I wanted to leave it all in the dust. But trying to forget just dredged it all up again. I’d have to drown it out by getting back to work.

McPherson had a dedicated medical building, though it was only about the size of a stable and manned thinly. The medic on site had just a chevron to his rank.

“Private Velez,” I said, reading his badge as I approached his desk. “I need you to clear me for duty.”

“What’s the injury?” he said.

He had an unlined face, slightly darker than a deep tan could reach. He was young, but looked severe as he gave me a one over.

I rolled up my pant leg.

He whistled at the bandage. “It looks deep.”

“Deepest there is. A round went all the way through.”

“Oh shit,” he said.

“I’m fine. Sergeant is not convinced.”

“Well, let’s take a look.”

He led to an exam room, had me sit on a chair and began unwinding the bandage. I only felt it as a slight release of pressure.

I looked down at his shorn black hair and the much lighter skin it speckled. This guy was Latino, no doubt. They came a little darker, a little lighter.

Rosa might be on one end of the spectrum. Someone on the other side, I might not even notice wasn’t white. But his culture would be closer to Rosa’s than mine.

It wasn’t the first time I’d had to notice that the lines between people didn’t cut so neatly, but I couldn’t ignore it now. I needed to know how deep I’d gone into enemy territory.

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