Fly With Me by Chanel Cleeton

Author:Chanel Cleeton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-03-08T17:03:55+00:00

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NOAH

I couldn’t concentrate.

The sortie had gone well, the debrief fine. But my mind was back in my bedroom, back with Jordan. I couldn’t help but wonder if I’d fucked up with how I’d handled things with her.

I felt like an asshole for not picking her up at the airport today. And I was even more pissed about the fact that I hadn’t been able to spend the rest of the day with her. I’d been dying to see her, and when I’d gotten a call from Rush, who ran the scheduling shop, I’d known I was going to disappoint her. And maybe I should have mentioned the mustache, but honestly, it had never occurred to me. I’d been a fighter pilot for over a decade. The married guys did Mustache March. Their wives didn’t seem to mind. Apparently, Jordan did.

I walked out of the vault where we stored all our classified materials and ran into Joker. As squadron commander, he worked even more intense hours than the rest of us and was always the first one in and the last one to leave, his office light on every weekend. I figured Dani was a little bit of a saint to put up with his continued absences.

He jerked his chin in greeting. “Did your girl get in okay?”

I nodded, my answer mostly true. I hesitated, feeling like an idiot, but also figuring I needed relationship advice, and considering my top choices were Easy, who fucked anything hot that moved, and Thor, who had a broken engagement behind him that he refused to talk about a decade later, Joker seemed like the best bet. Besides, there were a ton of married guys in the squadron, but few were as happily married as Dani and Joker appeared to be.

“Does Dani, uh, hate Mustache March?”

Joker let out a bark of laughter.

“Seriously?”

I guessed that answered my question.

“She fucking hates it.”

“But you still do it.”

“She deals.”

In the years I’d known Joker and his wife, I’d never heard Dani raise her voice, never heard her curse. Somehow I didn’t think she and Jordan would deal in the same way. Maybe I should have just shaved the thing. I’d gotten caught up in the moment and hadn’t thought about how surprised I would have been if she’d radically changed her appearance or something.

“Let me guess, your girl isn’t a fan?” Joker asked.

“That would be an understatement. She’s pissed. I didn’t handle it all that well, so now she’s really pissed.”

He shrugged. “She’ll either get over it, or you’ll cave. Just pick your battles. Is she coming tonight?”

I nodded.

I felt guilty about that, too. The party at the O-Club had started two hours ago. Maybe I shouldn’t have suggested Jordan go with Easy. She’d definitely been nervous. Fuck. This was why I was shit at relationships. I was so used to just worrying about myself, my focus on my job and the mission, that I hadn’t even thought about her feelings.

Joker grinned. “Good luck. See you at the club in a few?”

I nodded again, my mind back on Jordan.

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