Ice's Icing by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773362809
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2019-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Ice just wanted to hide away. Too many people were in her office, so she ended up in her bedroom. She also didn’t want to see Levi right now. She curled up in the window seat, trying to get her thoughts in line.

“Apparently tomorrow is my wedding day,” she murmured. She wasn’t sure how she felt about that. She didn’t have a wedding dress. She hadn’t had a hand in the flowers or the food—nothing. She wasn’t even sure that mattered to her. The girls were right. Ice was terrified she wouldn’t end up doing it as well as the other women.

She wasn’t into big displays, but she wanted something meaningful. It was hard to imagine anything more meaningful than everybody getting together and arranging it for her.

But did they actually know who and what she was? She gave a small laugh. “I guess this’ll tell us, won’t it?” she whispered to the empty room.

In the meantime, they had to deal with the prisoners.

Slowly, her body tired and worn out, she stood, wondering if it was her age, stage of life or just the stress of the wedding issues getting to her. But she worried. She worried a lot lately. And cried easier. She walked to the bathroom and pulled out the box she’d secretly kept hidden away in the back of her drawer, and then she stuffed it back in again.

She didn’t want to know.

Determinedly she walked out of her bedroom and headed downstairs to the jail facility, donning that mantle of hardness everybody expected. As she shoved her fists into her jeans pockets, she studied the prisoners and looked around at the men standing guard. “Where’s Levi?” she asked.

“He just went up to talk to a group in the kitchen,” Rhodes called out from the nearby med bay.

She spun on her heels and said, “What are you doing awake?” But she couldn’t stop the delighted grin at seeing him looking so bright-eyed and actually awake and talking.

He gave her a lopsided grin. “I love you too, kiddo.”

Her heart melted. She reached out, grabbed his hand and said, “Goddammit, we came close to losing you.”

He squeezed her hand. “I’m not so easy to kill,” he reminded her. “Don’t go soft now.”

She just glared at him. “You know we’re pushing the odds each and every time, right?”

He studied her carefully and then smiled. “Maybe it’s time you went to a desk job.”

Immediately her back stiffened.

He nodded. “See? You’re not quite ready to hang up your wings, and I’m not quite ready to take off my boots and leave them at the door,” he said quietly. “We’ve been doing this a long time. And, yes, at some point, one of us could very well not come home from a mission.”

“Better not ever happen,” she said. Her fingers gripped his so hard that she was forced to relax, so she didn’t cause him any further pain. She looked down at the dressings and said, “Has my father been in to check on you?”

“Several times,” he said cheerfully.

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