First Day, Every Day by M. L. Buchman

Author:M. L. Buchman [Buchman, M. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Buchman Bookworks, Inc.

Chapter 6

Amy rode the icy current, cursed the rocks, especially the ones that kept insisting on hitting her bad leg. With each impact, it felt more and more like ice was invading her blood and soon her frozen bones would shatter.

A stream joined the river and the speed picked up. When it flattened, she swam. When it sped through quick rapids, she did what she could to protect her bad leg.

The CSAR craft shot by close overhead and she grabbed her radio: no lights, no action.

She struggled to the muddy bank and a patch of trees. Pulling out a penlight, she saw they were willow trees. It gave her a moment of vertigo-how were they here but Dustin wasn’t? Hadn’t they courted under a willow? But was it this one? It’s leaves were yellow with autumn. But their tree had been winter bare, hadn’t it? Amy recognized the signs of impending shock and forced herself to inspect the problem.

The problem was that a second 9mm round—one going for her left breast—Dusty’s favorite—had smithereened the radio instead. It was hard to be angry about it. The armor in her vest should have protected her as well, but it would have left one hell of a bruise. And that was if she was lucky.

Lucky.

Two years ago she’d met Dusty in the Portland, Oregon, rose garden. The same week she’d started SOAR training. Best two things that had ever happened to her. Too much luck spent there, perhaps. Not enough left over for now when she really needed it.

Two years married but spent mostly apart, together only when they could both get leave. And finally, assigned together to the 5th Battalion D Company three days ago—the only outfit she knew of in the U.S. Armed Forces that ever allowed couples to serve together.

And now she was wounded and alone in a mud bank along an Iraqi river.

Great honeymoon dear. Just perfect.

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