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When Razor’s best friend sat hiht hta be a wake-up call And then, when he took it a step further and said he no longer wanted to be called “Paps,” like he had been for almost fifteen years, Razor decided that, etting as gray as his friend was

Gunner “Paps” Godet had been Tabon “Razor” Sharp’s fellow Marine, sidekick, partner in criman, and confidant since they’d both arrived at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego for boot camp It had been a fluke that Godet was even there Given Gunner was an East Coast boy, he should’ve been sent to Parris Island in South Carolina But his dad was a USMC O-8, also known as a two-star, who oversaw the base at Cao That meant Gunner had his pick

Razor hadn’t cared either way, although everybody he served with later, told him how damned lucky he’d been to end up where he had

“What the hell are you doin’ now?” Gunner asked

Truth was, he was standing in front of a roo that worried him, or even that K19 Security Solutions—the co so quickly he hardly recognized it anymore Instead, it was the wo party

Avarie McNao, wound up center stage in every fantasy he had when he needed to take the edge off It didn’t help that the one and only ti the hottest damn bikini he’d ever seen

She’d let him know, in no uncertain terms, that she was interested that day, but he hadn’t been able to take her up on it He’d been on the clock, filling in as her friend’s bodyguard long before she knew she had one

He’d known a lot about Ava prior to her coet to know her in the inti

“It’s a daorgeous woman he was about to see for the first tiives a shit what you look like, anyway Let’s go”

It wasn’t unusual for Gunner to be grouchy Razor hadn’t really known hiotten a lot worse

He understood why, though No one else had been under their watch for as long as “Barbie” Hess had been When she went off her rocker, decided to make a deal with some really bad Russian dudes, and then threatened to kill one of their own, Gunner had been the one forced to take her down

Razor rubbed his chest where it still hurt to think about It had to be so much worse for his friend It wasn’t just that Gunner was responsible for her death; Razor suspected that, at some point, Gunner had fallen in love with their forh, and Razor respected that

“What is with you?” Gunner asked when they got in the car and Razor rolled his shoulders

“I don’t want to talk about it”

He realized that Gunner would be under the i she had been themarried today