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"No, not okay" Alike Matthew--yes, I know all about Matthew, your Marine, and yeah, I’d heard rumors that he couldn’t keep his dick in his pants But I don’t do shit like that I don’t screw around on women I happen to care about"

"Garrett…" The fire in his eyes hed and waited for hi I said, about wanting you, about how crazy I aer? Never mind that I’ll be on the job, most likely in a remote corner of the world where the only women I’ll encounter would rather strap bombs to their chests than fk Americans, but da breath, suddenly feeling ridiculously foolish for coht have a wild past, but she believed him when he claimed to have been celibate for the last year, and in that year, he’d shown up at the café al lattes he didn’t even like just so he could see her And last night…God, last night he’d actually watched her have sex with his best friend just because he wanted to let her have the fantasy, because he wanted to be with her And the way he kissed her…it was packed ayshe’d ever experienced

Dareed, because he was alreadya swift move for the door

"Fuck this," he ht you nothing about ht--and o--didn’t make any impact on you either If you don’t want to trust me, fine, don’t trust h hoops over so some other jerk did"

"Garrett--" But it was too late He was already gone, and jeez, but the man could move She’d barely made it two steps out of the bedroom after him when she heard the door of the apartment slaine starting filled her ears, and then there was nothing but the light pounding of the rain against the s

Chapter Six

Garrett had just slung his duffel over his shoulder and was heading across the base toward the waiting Navy helicopter when a familiar voice stopped him in his tracks

He froze for a second, then turned around and sure enough, Shelby was hurrying toward hireen T-shirt, and her wavy blonde hair was pretty ed to hide his surprise as she walked toward hi here? After the way he’d left things back at her apartain this soon If ever Da up at her like that, but could anyone really blame him? He’d made it obvious how much he liked her, how badly he wanted to be with her, and in return she’d asked hione Her distrust in hi

Maybe he shouldn’t have yelled at her the way he had, but hell, how could she have so little faith in hi wet strands of hair out of her eyes

It was possibly the most absurd question she could’ve asked Not only was the sound of the helicopter blades whirring a clear sign that no, he didn’t have a

"Who let you out here?" he returned without answering her His questioncivilians weren’t usually allowed in this part of the base

"I did," calanced past Shelby’s delicate shoulders and saw Carson striding toward the his bag over his shoulder and headed for the helicopter, where the rest of the tea "Don’t fk this up," Carson called without turning around, his words sed by the sound of the rotors