The Lieutenants' Online Love by Caro Carson

Author:Caro Carson [Carson, Caro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-31T19:24:24+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Chloe sat at her desk and struggled not to fall asleep in front of Carter.

She’d only been here two weeks, but she’d fallen asleep in her office chair twice. Carter just loved to wake her up. The first time, he’d put his phone on her desk quietly, like a sneaky weasel, then set it off to play the reveille bugle call. The next time, he’d sailed a paper airplane right into her head while he stood in the hallway. Judging from the paper airplanes littering the floor around her desk, it had taken him at least four tries to land a plane on her head—or else he’d hit her four times but she’d been sleeping too hard to notice.

If the paperwork part of her job wasn’t so boring, it wouldn’t be so hard to stay awake. It would also help if she wasn’t trying to stay awake for thirty-six hours at a stretch. She was part of the regular duty officer rotation now. She’d come to one conclusion: there had to be a better way.

A leader didn’t bring a problem to his or her superior’s attention without also presenting a possible solution. She knew what the sleep-deprivation problem was. She needed to come up with a solution.

“Yo, Carter. Where can I find the schedule for the duty officers?”

“Don’t worry, you’re done for the month. No more garrison duty. We’ll go into training for our combat missions now. This is your last thirty-six hours for two months.”

“I wasn’t worried. I want to see the old schedule. Is it all laid out on a calendar somewhere?”

It was like pulling teeth to get him to do it, but Carter finally sent a file from his army laptop to hers with the dates and names going back a month. She read it over, mulled it over. When there’d been only three lieutenants, it must have been brutal. With four lieutenants, it was still exhausting.

They weren’t at war. They weren’t deployed in a volatile part of the world. They weren’t even training to handle sleep deprivation in a future war zone. This was just actual sleep deprivation, and she couldn’t see a reason to punish themselves physically like this. Instead, there was a very good reason for them not to: they were performing a real law enforcement mission, not rehearsing for one, and that mission required them to make decisions with clear heads, not exhausted ones.

“What are you frowning at?” Carter asked. The man sure did watch her a lot, considering she was only worth talking to if no other single women were around.

Ha—there were no other single women around. She was it. Tough luck for him; she didn’t feel like talking. “Nothing.”

When Chloe wanted to see a problem, it worked better when she could sketch it out with old-fashioned pencil and paper. Chloe pushed her laptop out of her way and flipped the least-important-looking document on her desk over. The back was a plain white page, beckoning her to find a pencil and make it come alive.

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