The Strength of Love by Serena Akeroyd

Author:Serena Akeroyd [Akeroyd, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, menage
Publisher: Loose Id LLC
Published: 2016-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“I can’t believe it.”

Luke stared down at the written confirmation in his hands. The OTH discharge had been wiped clean off his record to be replaced with Honorable.

Josh had done it. He’d only gone and managed to expose a scandal that involved a colonel, a lieutenant general, and countless other small-fry officers as well as four NCOs. A scandal that was hitting the papers thanks to Josh’s leaking the news, making sure that faces were put to those names and that those people would be punished for the many crimes they’d committed.

He looked up into the face of his smiling husband and felt tears prick his eyes at the huge grin Josh sported. “I can’t believe you did it, Josh.”

“I didn’t do it alone.” He grabbed Dana, his PA, and squeezed her. “Here’s the brains behind it all.”

Dana snorted and disentangled herself from Josh’s clasp. “You were the brains. I was the brawn.” She flexed her fingers. “Well, technically, these were.”

Luke stood on shaky legs and reached for her. It wasn’t like him to hug strangers, but this woman had helped save his reputation. He’d have given her a piece of the moon if he could. She squeaked when he wrapped her up in his arms, then patted one of her flushed cheeks in a gesture that was curiously old-fashioned when he released her.

“You’re welcome,” she muttered weakly. “I’m just glad the work paid off. Especially after what those bastards were doing over there.” She shot off a glare at Colonel Harrison, who had flown in for the appeal. He was in a chair, shell-shocked, with cuffs on his wrists. Two MPs guarded him while they waited for transport to take him to a holding facility.

A part of Luke wanted to gloat at the sight of the dejected officer. A court-martial was in his future, as was jail. Unless he struck a deal, one that shopped other people in the racketeering business he’d been running. It was a possibility, and after what Harrison had put Luke through, the notion didn’t please him, but that was how justice worked. Sometimes, to completely destroy a rat’s nest, you had to wade into its heart and poison the core.

After what General Jarvis, Josh’s superior officer, had uncovered over in Libya on the base there, the core was well in need of being poisoned. The girl, the young bride who Luke had caught Harrison sodomizing…she was dead. Buried in an unmarked grave, along with two more young females. Worse than that, there were sales records. Other girls in the area who had been taken from their homes under the guise of arrest had been sold off like chattel. Jarvis’s investigation hadn’t uncovered their whereabouts, and God only knew if he ever would. Harrison’s fingers were muddied by being stuck in so many pies. His corruption ran through his veins.

If it hadn’t been for Josh, for his husband’s perseverance and belief in Luke, then none of this would have come to light. Luke could have been the one sitting in cuffs.

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