Theirs To Defy: a Reverse Harem Romance by Stasia Black

Author:Stasia Black [Black, Stasia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

DAVID

David swallowed hard as he crouched down behind Drea. She had her legs wrapped around Jonathan’s back. Jonathan’s legs were folded beneath her and he leaned back on his hands, face mesmerized as he watched her writhing on top of him.

Jonathan was many things to David—his second in command, his confidant, chief strategist, best friend, and yes, maybe a surrogate for the brother David had lost.

He knew Jonathan worried about it sometimes—that David only saw him as Kevin’s shadow. Jonathan asked him straight out one night when he was extremely drunk. Do you even see me? Or am I just Kevin to you? David’s only response was to grab the bottle out of his hand and help him back to his bunk. They both pretended it hadn’t happened the next morning.

David didn’t know if it was true or not.

All he knew was that what he wanted more than anything in the damn world was for Jonathan to be happy.

Maybe it did all come back to Kevin, dammit. Because the day David had come back to the house to check on their sick mom and found her dead and Kevin upstairs in the bathtub, wrists slashed—what the fuck was the point to any of it after that?

No matter how big a part of him wanted to grab the razor blade Kevin had used to join his brother and mom, it just wasn’t in him. So David was stuck living, and the Army was the only thing he’d ever known. Dad was military and they’d moved around every few years his whole life. It had been a given that David would attend West Point, just like Dad.

So David went back to soldiering. You could do it without thinking, mostly. It was a system that rewarded being more machine than man, especially after the world went FUBAR.

David rose quickly in the ranks that were barely hanging together in the chaos. Half the troop units were so undisciplined, the soldiers joined in the looting and mobbing instead of working to restore order. Not to mention the huge numbers of deserters just walking off base and going AWOL in the middle of the night.

David didn’t put up with any of that shit.

There were rules. Order. Law.

The Army was the only damn thing that made any sense after The Fall, if you asked David. So maybe he clung a little harder than most to rules and regulations than might have been strictly healthy.

But David never stopped to worry about shit like that. If people accused him of being a robot, that was their damn problem. There was too much to get done in a day to bother sitting around wasting time on head-shrink BS.

He never put the barrel of his Sig Sauer in his mouth, so he figured he was doing just fine. So what if he slept for shit most nights? Who didn’t after seeing all they had? He wasn’t one for overthinking things.

Which was why he didn’t stop to ponder the situation too long before leaning in behind Drea to sweep her hair off the back of her neck.

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