Dawn Flight by M. L. Buchman

Author:M. L. Buchman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Buchman Bookworks, Inc.
Published: 2015-08-26T16:00:00+00:00

11

The weather sucked! Which was fine, it completely fit Diana’s equally foul mood. While she hadn’t slept, the first major winter storm had arrived and high winds were now slashing driving sheets of rain across the base. Trees were down throughout Puget Sound. The Nisqually and Puyallup Rivers already racing toward flood stage.

The television, her only friend through the sleepless night, told the story of massive power outages sweeping far and wide across the Pacific Northwest, though none had hit Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

A hundred times through the day she’d thought how nice it would be to curl up with Jack Slater, make love while the wind roared and the rain battered—and a hundred times she’d had to push it aside.

Late within the time she was supposed to be asleep, about three in the afternoon because they were now fully on a nighttime schedule like most Night Stalkers, she’d finally forced herself to start thinking.

Why had she reacted so strongly?

Because just like her mother—who had never remarried and maybe at long last Diana understood why—she’d fallen in love.

Diana had sighed and wished she wasn’t always so goddamn honest with herself. But it was true. Without even noticing, she’d fallen in love with Jack Slater.

But Jack had made no promises.

He’d always been appreciative: of her flying, her mind, and her body. He had an uncanny ability to fully focus on each aspect of her. When they were discussing a mission, he wasn’t leering at her body, he was a hundred percent on profile. And when they were making love…he made the rest of the world cease to exist.

Except for her initial info dump about her father’s death, they’d never discussed their pasts, not even that she was illegitimate. Past missions, training, even schooling, sure. But there’d been a barrier when they got back to family that neither of them had been willing to breach.

Well, the three-minute trip in the back of the SUV that raced them across the airfield was not the time to discuss it.

That was the moment when Diana decided that she wasn’t ready to give up on them yet.

She wanted Jack. She wanted him long-term. He was already in her heart the same way that her father was in Mom’s.

Forever.

A hundred yards to the hangar, she did the only thing there was time for, the only thing she could think to do.

She reached out and took his hand.

He didn’t turn to look at her, didn’t react in any way.

Except to nearly crush her fingers in his powerful grip. He held on like a drowning man for every single one of those seconds.

She’d take that as a good sign.

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