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Chapter 1

"Hey, I thought you said there was a woh the windscreen of his C-17, broken clouds revealing the barren landscape of Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota

Not a daht

Laughter ru" and the in-flight mechanic "Mako"

"Yes, sir," Mako drawled fro this air shoith that one, didn't we?"

"You dudes got ripped the throttle and let the "tricked" than to ad on to this mission

"The clue bird should have hit you like a whole flock s told you that Minot joke about the trees" Mako continued to gloat "His ould kick his butt if she thought he was checking out the feirlfriend you keep them all too busy, anyway"

"One at a ti a casual tone and attitude to mask a deep-seated attention to detail "Always one at a time"

Stick in hand, Bo guided the craft toward the base, a mere speck ahead in the middle of flat, flat and more flat farmland, where he would spend the weekend at Minot's annual air show—dateless

Okay, so he had a reputation around the squadron as a player But he wanted a steady relationship, wife and kids souy Maybe even more, since he'd never had a real home of his own

If that h a lot of breakups in the search, such was life It see a woman once he realized she wasn't The One So fifty-fifty when it caiven and received

Painful? Soh, the journey wasn't aup in a boys' hoing in the air, what guy wouldn't prefer to spend the rest of his life pressed up close to a soft, jas woman? Or rose-scented

Or even spring-flowers-deodorant scented He wasn't picky

Still, he was grateful for Minot's treeless state Noasn't the time to shuffle those fifty-fifty odds either way He had round than his exhaustive and so quest for a Mrs Rokowsky

He wasn't working the Minot Air Show to roupies, but rather to meet one woman in particular And no way in hell would she be open to sex with him