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“I hope so” She adjusted the air conditioner, not that he could feel it as his bag blocked the vent Too bad, he could use cooling down “You’re headed back to Georgia?”

“Yes, ”

“Huh-what?”

He siven hi to think about besides his ard anato business for six generations I’ll be taking over operations frorandfather Soon as I make my way down south”

“Peaches,” she ,for you back in Georgia, Major, I won’t believe you”

His neck grew hot, an uncoirl” That wasn’t entirely true There had been a girl at one tier And while he didn’t feel the saot harder over ti it in front of Kenna would only lead to pity Es he didn’t want to feel froirl who’d probably never faced a single challenge in the romance department

Beck could see her need to press battling with her nonchalance “You sure about that?”

He started to say yes, he was sure, but he stopped hio when he’d received the Dear John letter from back home, he’d unburdened himself to no one Today marked a fresh start, away froedy he’d been living with on his conscience Life after his service While he ht have mentally moved on in most aspects, the failure still sat heavily on his shoulders and he wanted to be free of it Once Kenna dropped hi out theof herwith his sob story He eyed her What was the worst that could happen? She pretended to be sympathetic and race back to her boyfriend?

Sweet Jesus, he didn’t like the idea of her crawling back into those sheets with a boyfriend

The unexpected flare of jealousy propelled the truth out of hiether since freshia Everything was fine, until I took the ASVAB test” He still recalled being suh results on the military aptitude test with a recruiter “After that, everything happened so fast I was shipped out before the ink dried”

“I know the test” She measured him with a look “That explains how you’ve been pro”

“All due respect, Kenna, twenty-six isn’t young when you’ve been where I have” He barely hs on the seat “Speaking of, how old are you?”