Embracing Juliette (Police and Fire: Operation Alpha) (Texas Heroes: Station 9 Book 1) by Leyna Cohan & Operation Alpha

Author:Leyna Cohan & Operation Alpha [Cohan, Leyna & Alpha, Operation]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aces Press, LLC
Published: 2025-03-11T00:00:00+00:00

23

Dylan

“Are you sure you’re okay?”

Juliette continued staring out the windshield. “Yeah. I’m fine,” she said, not sounding fine at all.

“If it’s too much, tell me and we’ll leave. Doesn’t matter when.”

“I said I’m fine.”

Fuck. I’d been excited for the kickball game and for Juliette to meet more of my friends. I’d been so happy when she agreed to go, but now I felt like the world’s worst boyfriend. Why didn’t I listen when she told me how much she dreaded any sports? I’d heard her, but clearly I hadn’t really understood the depth of her feelings about it or we wouldn’t be here now.

“What’s the game going to be like?” she asked nervously.

“If it’s anything like the softball games, it will be full of cheating and shenanigans. If we win, it’ll be because we were more creative in our cheating, not because we played better. If you fall or in any way get hurt, no one will even feel bad for you; they’ll be impressed that you were so committed to distracting everyone. It’s total chaos and anything goes. You can’t mess up, baby, I promise. I would never ask you to do this if I thought you’d have a problem.”

“Now I know you’re lying. You can’t pretend that a field full of protective alpha firefighters aren’t going to care if I get hurt.”

I threw my head back and laughed. Only Juliette could be so nervous and funny at the same time.

“Tell me again who’s going to be there? And why are we doing this?”

“We usually have firefighter versus law enforcement softball games, which are big fundraising events, but when we were talking to the guys from Station 7 a few weeks ago after finishing up at an MVA, we came up with the idea to do a small, just for fun, kickball game with our two stations. It was Sledge’s idea, because of Beth’s agoraphobia. She’s tried going to the softball games, but it’s too much for her to stay the whole time. They once did a small kickball game with just them and some of the law enforcement guys and she enjoyed it, so he wanted to do it again with us. The other people you’ll meet are Chief and Sophie, Squirrel and Blythe, Moose and Penelope, Taco and Koren, Driftwood and Quinn, Adeline and Crash. And you know Cole and Ryan.”

“Why do they have nicknames and you guys don’t?”

“Apparently our station used to give nicknames a while ago, before I was there, but they kept changing them and the chief couldn’t remember any. There was a big scheduling mix-up and that was the end of that.”

“Okay. It’s a nice day for kickball. Not too hot considering it’s summer in Texas.”

Fuck. I hated the dull look in her eyes and flat tone in her voice, even as she tried to say something positive. I’d turn the car around if I didn’t think it would upset her even more.

“I’m sorry for pushing you to do this. I’ll call Ryan and ask him to tell the others something came up.

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