Detonate by Reese Knightley

Author:Reese Knightley [Knightley, Reese]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Out for Justice book seven
Publisher: Reese Knightley
Published: 2022-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

Stefano

December, 1994

Fuck, he was nervous.

He continued scanning the crowd of service men spilling out of the ass end of a C-17 Globemaster III, but he still couldn’t find Rossi. He should probably just get the hell out of there. Mainly, because he couldn’t be sure whether Rossi would be happy or irritated that he’d come to the base to greet him.

The deadbeat people who had fostered Rossi had kicked him out when he had reached eighteen. Of course, Rossi did have a sister, but the man never talked much about her after telling Stefano the whole story. Fortunately for Ginger, she’d ended up with wealthy foster parents. Unfortunately, she had never wanted anything to do with Rossi.

Thus, in reality, the only blood family Rossi had was his little son, Noah, whom he’d never met.

Rossi has me, he reminded himself.

They only had each other. Stefano’s own parents had been killed in a boating accident just before he’d joined the Army. So, wasn’t it only right that Rossi have someone be there for him when he came home? Rossi making Special Forces at the age of twenty-one was a big fucking deal, he silently reasoned.

Stefano glanced to his right and then slowly to his left. It was mostly all women, many with children, except for a few older couples who stood waiting. He was the only single guy, but it had been a year since he’d last seen Rossi and almost six months since their only phone call through a horrible connection from a phone at the base and Stefano’s crappy apartment landline.

Sure, he got it that they couldn’t tell people they were together, but this was the 90s… things were happening all the time. According to the New York Times the month before, Oregon had five openly gay representatives running for office. That was progress, wasn’t it?

Yeah, it was, but it wasn’t the same everywhere. This year, Boston had canceled the Saint Patrick’s Day parade because the courts had allowed an LGBT contingent to march. And all military personnel were still subject to discharge under the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

Screw that. He’d already made up his mind to leave the military after his current enlistment. Only two more years to go and then he’d be working as a civilian. Stefano already had a job lined up from a friend who’d gotten out a year ago and had started his own mercenary/bodyguard business. Sure, it wasn’t the best work in the world, but the pay was decent.

A couple of women to the right of him giggled and he slid a glance sideways. They looked quickly away.

Fuck. He stood out just being there. It wasn’t only luck that they had their leave at the same time. It took Stefano saving up hours and requesting well ahead of time to be able to get the next two weeks off. Two weeks that matched Rossi’s leave time.

But they were supposed to meet at a hotel not far from there.

The more he thought about it, the more he regretted his decision to be there.

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