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“Syria,” Dax grits out “You fucking drove her to one of the erous places on this earth You did this… and all because you couldn’t spare five fucking minutes to talk to her”
Goddamn it
He’s fucking right I have no clue if ould have been able to work things out, but I don’t doubt for aher atteo It’s typical Willow, determined to live her life as she sees fit, and I know her well enough to realize this is clearly a display to everyone to prove she doesn’t needon The fact she took the job in Syria doesn’t necessarily mean she did it to spite et back at me personally, but I know damn well she wouldn’t be scared off by a particularly scary destination, so she wasn’t going to be held back by it
At this moment, Tacker sort of muscles his way in between Dax andus and while eren’t loud enough to hear, Dax’s body language is h
“Is there a problem here?” he asks pleasantly, but the expression on his face says he’s ready to get physical if he needs to
I take a step backward only in deference to Dax, who has a right to be pissed “We’re good here”
“We’re not good,” Dax snarls “If so you responsible”
He spins away and strides right out of the lobby doors, presumably to cool off
“You good?” Tacker asks, his tone now filled orry It’s obvious he feels like he owes iven hiured out his own path, but he doesn’t owe lad to do it
“I’ood,” I say with a smile I know doesn’t quite reach h”
I head toward the elevator, once again thinking I’ve got a lot of work that needs to be knocked out
But now all I can think about is Willow in Syria, doing God knohat kind of assignuilt that I put her thereCHAPTER 27WillowIf I have any regrets about taking this job, they are occurring in this moment
“Willow, Mark, John… I can’t stress enough how important it is for you to stay back here, no et,” Malik Fournier tells us as he packs his gear “We can’t be worrying about your safety”
“Understood,” I say
We’ve been embedded with this civilian team of hired soldiers ith a US based company called Ja in conjunction with a sdoee workers ere taken hostage last week
This wasn’t nton Post to pair up with reporters ere doing a special piece on a refugee safe zone that had been set up on the border of Syria and Turkey The bloody eight-year war that has displaced , and awareness of the plight is alorth a news article
The risk was always there, but it was as low as it could possibly be given such circuion at the tiive , but they didn’t fight me too much
My parents didn’t understand the real reason I was leaving, and that was because I needed to put as much distance between myself and Dominik as I could My heart was too shredded to continue on in his proximity The way he wouldn’t see e one of thePlain and simple, it was clear ere over, and this was my desperate attempt to move on with my life
I had sat and talked to Dax about it face to face, because I was experiencing soe of realizing their dream of a Cup championship The day after they pulled off a victory over the Cold Fury in gao into his owner’s box just so he could avoid me—I’d sat with Dax at the kitchen table and told hi for Syria the next day
He ranted and railed for a good five ers and how ued about the necessity of living ht me career fulfillment