Edge of Darkness: The Complete Edge Series by CD Reiss

Author:CD Reiss [Reiss, CD]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Flip City Media
Published: 2019-03-04T18:30:00+00:00

Caden carried my duffel to the tarmac even after I insisted I was perfectly capable.

“There’s no chivalry in the army,” I hissed as he took it from me. “That would ruin everything.”

“I’m a civilian in a uniform.” He hitched the duffel strap up. “Deal with it.”

The Chinook’s rotors were getting started.

“God, I hate these things,” I said as we walked toward it.

“Yeah.” He was agreeing, but he was also staring straight at the open door where Ronin waited, which explained the single-word answer.

“I’m sore,” I said as reassurance, but my words were lost in the din of helicopter blades.

Caden stopped short and dropped the duffel. I reached down to pick it up, but he put his hand on my shoulder.

“What?” I shouted. “It’s not too heavy.”

“Marry me.”

“What?” I must have misheard in the thupping noise.

“Marry me, Greysen. Be my wife.”

“Are you serious?” I asked, knowing full well he was dead serious.

“You said it was a unicorn assignment. You said you never heard of any one you could get out of. Well, maybe if that’s the case, there’s a reason for that. Maybe you shouldn’t go.”

I was thrown. We were supposed to kiss before I got on the helicopter and write letters and then break up.

“I can’t marry you to get out of going.”

“Marry me because you want to. I’ll be the best husband you ever heard of. I’ll take care of you. I’ll stay in the army, and we can dual deploy.”

“No!”

His face fell. I’d spoken too soon, but it was loud and the Phrog was waiting.

“Maybe!” Trying to make it better was making it worse. I wanted him, but he’d caught me off guard. “But you can’t stay.” My cap almost blew off. I had to hold it on.

“I will.” The clipped demand of his voice cut through the wall of noise. “They’re begging me to stay. If you don’t marry me, I’m redeploying.”

“Are you threatening me?”

“It’s the only way to stay close to you.”

“This is weird, Caden.” I glanced at the helicopter.

It was ready. Ronin was waiting. The pilots were waiting.

“Marry me.”

My life was waiting. But this beautiful man was waiting for me too. He was resilient and fragile, made of rock and flesh, with a strength that lunged forward only to tear him apart.

“You can’t redeploy,” I insisted. “That’s off the table.”

“Marry me, and I’ll do whatever you want.”

Marry him. What would I have to give up? What would I gain?

This man with strands of hair trilling in the wind and his powerful voice demanding more from me than I’d thought to give. He held me there, in his gaze, nailing my feet to the ground until I answered.

I barely knew him except by his loyalty, his passion, his vulnerability, his honesty.

I knew nothing of his life, his habits, his choices.

“Marry me. Don’t go with him.”

“Is this about Ronin?”

“No! I just… I have a feeling. A bad feeling about you going up there.”

“You’re lying.”

My accusation rang more false than his denial. He wasn’t lying. If his demand

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