Missing in Action by K. L. Donn

Author:K. L. Donn [Donn, K. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KL Writes
Published: 2019-06-04T09:10:10+00:00

Ryder

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I hadn’t meant to skip the morning of workouts planned for me. I hadn’t meant to stay home and watch for any signs of movement from Codie. I hadn’t meant to barge in on her and maul her into making love to me.

But it’s what happened.

I finally got to show her just what she’s coming to mean to me as a man. I know she has demons. Far more than I can slay on my own. Hell, I have my own monkeys on my back. But I know that if we can stick it out together, we’ll both come out whole on the other side.

Holding Codie in my arms, feeling her writhing flesh against my own as we came apart was far better than I ever imagined. She was a timebomb waiting to go off, and I was lucky enough to bear witness to a small fraction of how beautiful she can be.

Running the track now with earbuds in, I allow a country mix to play through my mind, and almost every song seems to be about lovers. It’s no wonder I can’t get her out of my head for more than a second.

Nix was pissed when I came in late. He laced into me harder than any other time I’ve angered the giant of a man, but I’m not shocked. His sole focus is this team. At nearing forty years old, all he cares about is the next mission.

When I joined the Navy, it was never with the intention of being a career man. I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life at the time, and it seemed the best option for me. When Nix came for me, I knew immediately who he was. I knew what he was going to ask before he opened his mouth, and I jumped at the chance to be part of this country’s most elite team.

Task Force 779 isn’t just a group of men looking for thrills. We’re a team of men chosen specifically by the President of the United States. He pored over military records for weeks before selecting Theo, Weston, and I to join Nix and Foster on this newly assembled squad.

We’re each the best of the best in our fields, and I’m forever grateful to be what this country needs, but I’m also a man. With a man’s needs.

And Codie is precisely what I need.

Before I was captured, I might have walked away from her. I was harder then. I didn’t get to appreciate life for what it was.

One big adventure.

I’m not looking for cheap thrills. Not anymore. With my shy dove, I can see an entire future laid out before us, and nothing short of death is going to keep me from achieving it.

After being so close to my own passing, I want everything I can get out of life, and my neighbor is part of that. I know Nix is pissed and would rather I push her away. What he fails to understand at this point, is that by pushing her away, I’d be losing part of myself.

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