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Prologue
It was hot as hell The te, the sun, a big yellow ball in thewaves of heat Sweat stained the front of Tho the chopper could cool him down, and the four otherthe same discomfort
“Man, I hate South A his voice to be heard over the sound of wind and rotors
“It’ll get cooler e’re in the jungle,” John Garrett said with a shrug, wiping beads of sweat from his forehead with the back of his hand
Carson sighed “I hate the jungle too Monkeys freak me out”
Next to hiest and rowdiest member of Team Fifteen, hooted “Does Holly knohat a wimp you are?”
“Naah, I bet he tells her a bunch of stories when he gets back fro himself as the hero in each one”
“Oh, I’ his eyebrows “She’s always the damsel in distress e role-play Except for that one tiot to be a weary, injured traveler and she was the virgin nurse who tenderly nurtured me back to health”
The hed Becker cracked a smile, but it didn’t quite reach his eyes Not that he didn’t like the other guys, or find theether for years He was the new guy Well, technically, he was their new superior As a Senior Lieutenant, he now headed up the SEAL team, but for the past five years, he’d led a team out on the east coast
He’d o, after his wife—noife—landed a n that required she relocate to the west coast Her career was everything to Alice, and like a good husband, he wanted to support his wife Two o back east, he’d decided to stick around for a while He’d been assigned to Teaendary around the base Not just for their impressive mission success records, but for their success with the ladies Players, other SEALs called them
Garrett was -term relationship for a couple years, but the other two, Ryan and Matt, apparently kept the reputation alive by prowling the club scene and hooking up ar females
Becker didn’t get the lifestyle He was only thirty-two, but he’d been in a cohteen years old Sure, that relationship had died a fiery death four le, he couldn’t picture hi
Lately, he hardly thought about sex at all He -hot parts of the world like Colole he didn’t have to be reminded of Alice