Cover Your Tracks by Daco Auffenorde

Author:Daco Auffenorde [Auffenorde, Daco]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Published: 2020-10-19T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 25

Three years passed before Nick reunited with Specialist Andrea White on another deployment to Afghanistan. She was reattached to his unit as part of a cultural support team as well as a helicopter pilot.

“Good to see you, Sergeant Eliot,” she said.

“Long time, Specialist White.” His jaw tightened in an attempt to remain distant and professional. The memory of their intimate encounter in the cave on the night their chopper went down had never left. The hard truth was that a day hadn’t gone by without his pining for her. And though he never believed he’d see Andie again, looking at her now, he couldn’t imagine going through life without her. Why had he remained distant? She had too, but he was her superior, so what choice did she have?

“You can call me Nick, Andie,” he said.

“Thank you, Sergeant,” she replied. It was a game they’d played since the day they survived that first battle.

“I’ve been keeping up with your career, Specialist. You’ve done well. From helicopter pilot to cultural support team member. You even learned to speak Pashto, I understand.”

She blushed, her fair cheeks turning an intense scarlet. “I had a lot of lonely nights after I left your unit, Nick. I had to fill the time with something. I missed you.”

“Same here, Andie.”

There was an awkward silence. Without cracking a smile, she said, “So, a farmer buys a rooster named Randy to service his two hundred hens. When he gets the rooster into the barnyard, he tells him, ‘Randy, I want you to pace yourself. You’ve got a lot of chickens to service here, and you cost me a lot of money. Have fun, but take your time.’ The farmer points him toward the henhouse, and the rooster takes off like a shot. WHAM! Randy nails every hen in the henhouse, three or four times. Randy runs out and sees a flock of geese down by the lake. WHAM! He nails all the geese. Randy runs to the pigpen, the cow pasture—soon, he’s done every animal on the farm. The farmer is distraught, worried that his expensive rooster won’t even last the day. Sure enough, the farmer wakes up the next morning to find Randy laid out flat in the middle of the yard, buzzards circling overhead. The sad farmer shakes his head and says, ‘Oh, Randy, I told you to pace yourself. The buzzards are coming for you now.’ Randy opens one eye, winks, nods toward the sky. ‘Shush, dude. You keep talking and you’ll scare them away.’”

“Funny,” Nick said, laughing. “Do you have any more?”

“A whole bag of them.”

“Why don’t you come to my barracks tonight and tell me some?”

“Is that an order, Sergeant?” she asked, smiling one of her cute little grins.

“It depends. Do you want it to be?”

“You know how I love taking orders from you, Sergeant. On and off duty.”

“Then you’ll be in my room at nineteen hundred hours. Prompt.”

“Yes, Sergeant.”

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