Something Borrowed by Lexi Ostrow

Author:Lexi Ostrow [Ostrow, Lexi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Colliding Worlds Press
Published: 2017-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Jaxon couldn’t help but smile as he watched the sun go down on the far side of the flat terrain. Sundown meant it was late enough in the U.S. to call Adrianna, and he was more than ready for their first video call – more than excited to hear her voice on something that wasn’t an uploaded video on the news page. He’d deny watching them if she ever asked, but every so often he’d pull one up before or after emailing her. It helped him to feel just a little bit closer to her, and there was nothing wrong with that in his book.

All that was left was for Micaylab to relieve him from duty so he could finally talk to her. Six weeks into the deployment and they’d only exchanged emails – and a handwritten letter he’d sent for her birthday. There weren’t many liberty days, and when there had been one, memories of his past had kept him from leaving the base camp. There were only so many times one could play with fate, and he didn’t feel like checking his card just yet.

The days had been long, hot and thankfully uneventful since the random assault a few weeks prior. Jaxon had fallen into a simple routine, but it made the days go by. Colors had already come and gone, and that always made things move that much faster because he was fortunate enough not to have a night watch.

“It’s beautiful, sometimes, ya know?” Caster asked, standing about two hundred feet from him on the other side of the entrance.

Looking around he tried to figure out what Caster was looking at, unable to find anything of any beauty around them. Turning behind him, he quickly dismissed the base setup because it was horrible and Caster was facing outright. Glancing at the sky proved to be short lived as the bright burst of light from the setting sun resulted in him quickly glancing down.

“What is?” he shifted his gaze to the other man, wondering just what had prompted such a comment.

“Caster lifted his arm and pointed toward the desert just outside the village they were near. “The world over here. I think we all get so caught up in the hatred that surrounds this place that we forget to see the beauty.”

Jaxon looked out at the desert as night began to touch it. He saw fissures in the sandy ground, sparse plants and no animals anywhere around them. What he didn’t see was anything beautiful.

“What’s in that canteen? Nothing regulation I’m guessing.” He said with a smirk and a chuckle.

Caster grunted. “Amusing. Don’t forget; I’m from Arizona. The desert just appeals to me I guess.”

He didn’t get a chance to respond. Macaylab and Barrister walked up, guns at the ready and eyes straight ahead. The debrief was short, as it typically was, and he was more than ready to get on with his night as the duty sections swapped. Grinning as he secured his weapon in the armory area, he turned to Caster.

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