Hearts_Motorcycle Club Romance by Hazel Parker

Author:Hazel Parker [Parker, Hazel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-23T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11: Pork

It was time to come clean about something that I hadn’t talked about with anyone. Not in the club, not family, not with anyone who wasn’t involved in my SEAL career.

But first.

“I suppose, before I get to that, I should also tell you about my upbringing. This will probably make you like me less, but hey, the truth is the truth,” I said.

Tanya sipped on her vodka-water, finishing it and asking for another one. I was pretty sure that was her third glass since I’d arrived, but for the intensity of our conversation right now, we both needed more than a few drinks. The only reason I hadn’t had more was because I was listening so closely to her tell her story.

“I grew up in a very normal family. A happy upbringing. Both my parents were around, still are, as far as I’m aware.”

Tanya glanced at me, confused, but I would get to that.

“I had a younger brother as well. I wasn’t exactly spoiled; it’s not like my parents are billionaires and I ran away from that. But I had a happy, healthy upbringing in New Mexico. Albuquerque, to be specific.”

“I’ll be quirky,” Tanya said, making a joke that, coming from her, suddenly made a lot more sense to me.

“Exactly,” I said. “I wasn’t a great student, but I was in great shape, had a large social circle, and had decent options ahead of me. I didn’t have a ton of interest in being a student, so I decided to join the Navy. The Navy was great, but I wanted something harder. I didn’t just want to be a seaman. I wanted to be a SEAL. And so, as soon as I could, I opted into BUD/S, their program that qualifies you to be a Navy SEAL. Everyone struggles through it; it’s designed to break you. I struggled with it. But I finished, became a SEAL, and found myself in Iraq a few months later.”

Thinking back on the memory, it was something I tried to linger on for a few extra moments. It was one of the last moments of my life where everything was lined up, nothing truly bad had happened, and my future seemed wide open. I feared I couldn’t relate to Mama because the turmoil of my life had only begun when I was in my early twenties, not from my earliest years in life, but I wasn’t too upset about it.

I’d had my chance to be normal and had blown it with some poor decisions.

“I was on top of the world,” I said wistfully. “I was on top of my world, at least. I was accomplishing what I set out to accomplish, I was rising in the ranks, and I was doing what I’d wanted to do since roughly sophomore year of high school. And then a battle took place in Baghdad.”

I bit my lip. It was my fault. It was my fault.

“Have you heard of a concept called the fog of war?”

Tanya nodded, though it seemed like she was nodding more to appease me than because she actually knew.

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