With Hearts Aflame: Valentine's Day Box Set by Smith Maren & Taylor Maddie & McLeod Dinah & Smith Robin & Devlin Patty

Author:Smith, Maren & Taylor, Maddie & McLeod, Dinah & Smith, Robin & Devlin, Patty [Smith, Maren]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Blushing Books Publications
Published: 2014-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

Dressed in his usual black shirt and dress pants, Eric grabbed Val's cuffs and pocketed her collar before leaving his office in the administrative area. As he stepped into the corridor, his phone alerted him to a text. Miss Valerie has arrived and is waiting at the bar. Come quick, the vultures are circling.

Glancing at the clock, he smiled. His girl was right on time; he liked that. His boots rang out against the marble floor as he hurried to the lounge. Sure enough, she was surrounded by three preening Doms all vying for her attention.

As he came up behind her, he heard Jerry, who was an ex-Marine, asking her to dance.

"Gentleman, this one is taken. There are some other lovely ladies here tonight who would be happy to be underwhelmed by your advances, I'm sure."

Two of them laughed genially, leaving him with only Jerry to contend with. He gave him a long-suffering look, "What's the matter jarhead? Did all that time in that tin can of a tank affect your hearing?"

"You know squid, I might need to get it tested because I thought I just heard you say this beautiful woman had attached herself to a sorry ass SEAL. Say it ain't so, sweet thing?"

Valerie nodded, looking somewhat confused by their banter.

Moving next to Val, he draped an arm around her shoulders possessively. "Pay no attention to him. He's not too bright. He was a Marine: Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Essential."

"Poor misguided squid." Jerry said, shaking his head in mock sympathy. "The Navy is no more than the Marine's chauffeur service."

Eric chuckled, taking it in stride; he'd heard that one before.

Jerry wasn't done however. "When we left them on their ships to go fight the enemy all by ourselves, we'd say, 'thanks for the ride, boys. We'll take it from here.'"

"Except for SEALs, we were rappelling from choppers and saving the world while you were still trying to find your ass with a compass and a map."

Valerie giggled behind her hand. She had no idea that the Navy and Marines had such a rivalry, or that there were so many ex-military members at Decadence.

Jerry stood up and chest bumped Eric good-naturedly. She noticed that he stood a good six inches shorter and had to lean in and up to make that chest bump happen. Samson had come over and was leaning on the bar, enjoying the show.

"Hey boss," he said to Eric, "looks like Jerry's challenged you to a battle of wits."

"Yeah, too bad 'ole Jerry came unarmed."

That had Valerie laughing aloud. They continued to throw insults back and forth until a third man, Master Thomas, walked up. "What's going on, Sam? I need a beer."

"That can wait. Jerry was under the impression that a jarhead could steal this lovely lady from the boss. Can you believe it?"

"As a matter of fact, I can't. You shouldn't be fooling around with either a squid or a jarhead honey, not when there's an Army man around."

Samson snorted, "Army my ass."

Jerry

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