Night Owl by Rachel Grant

Author:Rachel Grant [Grant, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781944571382
Publisher: Janus Publishing

Brad braced himself before pulling open the taproom door. He’d spent too many hours thinking about Jenna when he should have been focused on the training these last two weeks—one of many reasons he’d avoided involvement with her for years—and now he felt a rush of both excitement and dread as he entered her place of employment. There was no way she wouldn’t be working tonight. Training wrap nights were when the roadhouse did the most business. Charlie would have made an extra vat of salmon chowder, and Brad could smell the smoker and the grill going out back from a block away. Tonight, the restaurant would serve world-class smoked brisket, bison burgers, and, for the adventuresome visitors, Charlie’s homemade reindeer sausage and various cuts of moose.

When the compound had first opened, the town of Tamarack made a lot of concessions, and in return, Raptor had agreed that trainees could visit town two or three times during a training, depending on the length of the session. In return, Charlie had agreed that when a training was in progress, attendees wouldn’t be served more than two drinks on a given night. Tonight, with the training behind them, the two-drink limit was off, and it would be something of a block-party atmosphere as Tamarack found ways to profit from the influx of trainees and the soldiers let off steam after a series of intense combat exercises.

This ten-day session had included fifty-six Army soldiers from three different bases—forty-two men and fourteen women. They’d run multiple exercises in the shoot houses, practiced hostage rescue scenarios, roadside ambushes, and wilderness survival training. Forty-three of the attendees had signed up for the buses to Tamarack tonight, and the first load had arrived twenty minutes ago.

The taproom was loud and happy. Brad spotted Jenna immediately. She wore a tight Tamarack Roadhouse T-shirt tied in a knot below her ribs to keep it from riding up and short cut-off jeans, leaving her flat midriff bare. Given how much she’d be running around tonight, the outfit would likely keep her cool, but it was no accident Jenna always wore her sexiest clothes on the last night of training. She relied on tips for the majority of her income, and three-quarters of her trainee customers were heterosexual men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-five.

Jenna was twenty-nine, beautiful, tall, and lithe. The shorts hugged her ass to perfection, and the tight top highlighted her slender, fit form. Brad had had his hands all over her perfect body two weeks ago, and like a dipshit, he’d let her go.

What the hell was wrong with him?

He was a fool, that was for sure. But at the same time, it had been—and still was—the right thing to do.

But damn, walking away from her had hurt. And it would hurt again when he left Tamarack for good.

He headed for the table in the back corner where Hawk and Dev were already seated. Two other guys from Falcon—a Black man named Mace and a white man named Colin—had joined them tonight.

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