The Kit Carson Scout: The Special Forces Squad has been sent to Cambodia (Vietnam Ground Zero Military Thrillers Book 6) by Eric Helm

Author:Eric Helm [Helm, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sapere Books
Published: 2021-01-25T22:00:00+00:00

They moved out after breakfast, Fetterman taking the point while Krung and Corporal Bhat shadowed their back trail. For over four hours they sloshed through more of the swamp, picking up another batch of leeches in the process. When they finally reached firmer footing at about eleven, Gerber called a halt so they could burn the leeches off.

Remembering the experience of the day before and not wishing to repeat it, Gerber quickly sought out Fetterman, and the two men checked each other for the blood-engorged worms. Kit, Gerber noticed, seemed a bit miffed at his avoidance of her, but was getting plenty of voluntary help from Anderson while an unabashed Kepler watched the proceedings with ill-concealed delight. Despite the large amounts of near nudity and Kepler’s good-natured leering, which Anderson appeared to find mildly annoying, Gerber noticed that today's ritual of removing the small black vampires was devoid of the sexual innuendos that had accompanied yesterday’s bloodletting.

Gerber also noticed that Sergeant Tyme, although clearly not amused by the situation, showed no indication of repeating his previous nearly hysterical reaction to the leeches. Instead, looking a bit pale, he sat off by himself, burning the leeches away with grim determination and slowly grinding each one beneath his boot heel.

They laid up for a couple of hours during the hottest part of the day, those not on guard sleeping in the sun in the middle of a small clearing because the hordes of mosquitoes made sleeping in the shade impossible to bear. Gerber, having wrongly assumed he would be safe from Kit’s advances during the daylight, and having already stood his turn at guard, had just flopped down when a familiar shadow fell across his chest.

“Captain Gerber, please, may I speak with you?”

“Certainly, uh, Kit,” answered Gerber, catching himself just in time. He’d almost said Miss Brouchard, but some little voice had warned him that doing that might be an even bigger mistake than being nice to her. “What do you want to talk to me about?”

“I have the feeling that you are angry with me for some reason. All day you have avoided me. Did I say something at breakfast that offended you?”

“Not at all,” said Gerber. He tried to look her in the eye for the next part, but couldn’t quite carry it off. “It’s just that I, that is, we’ve all been rather busy, what with crossing the swamp this morning and all, and I really haven’t had time to waste, uh, I mean to engage in conversation with you. Or anyone else for that matter.”

“I have said or done nothing to offend you, then?”

“No. Of course not. Nothing at all.”

“And you do enjoy talking with me?”

“Certainly.”

“That is good. I like very much talking to you. You seem to really listen, and to care about what I have to say, and it has been such a long time since I have had someone I could really talk to. There has been no one I could really talk to since my husband was imprisoned by the Hanoi government.

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