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A quick breath passed through his lips, an obvious sign of relief that she hadn’t pressed the hteenth birthday and went through training Luckily for me, a sniper position became available I tried out, and the rest is history”

Interesting and all, but she found herself ot the job, I take it that your dad trained you well?”

Sawyer smiled “I learned from the best”

Chloe bit her lip, trying not to laugh as her cat thrust his head into Sawyer’s chin to get Sawyer to notice him “How many tours did you do?”

“Four tours in Iraq, each ten ”

Surprise fluttered up “Gosh, were you home at all?”

“Nope, and I liked it that way” He gave her cat a rub under the chin, aveto make the world a better place I only caain”

“Geesh, you were really young to be away fro” Chloe’s heart clenched “And to be involved in war like that…”

He nodded “Most people involved in war are quite young”

A sad truth, Chloe thought miserably “So when did you leave the military?”

“One day ere clearing a town and looking for a target…” His eyes clouded over as he became lost in a memory “It was hot that day So da the house when another sniper hit one of our guys He was on the ground and bleeding out, so I left renade”

Tears welled in Chloe’s eyes; she couldn’t stop them As Sawyer spoke, the emotion he’d felt that day, the pain in his soul, the horrific things he’d seen—it all shone in his dark expression

He finally blinked into focus, and his brows pulled together as he noticed her wiping her tears “The grenade blew up my knee and I had to have it replaced That’s when the e”

Chloe drew in a deep breath, controlling the treuessing you took time off to recover?”

“It took a good year to bounce back” Her cat rubbed his face over’s Sawyer’s lips, and he snorted, oo off his lap “Once I was healed, I applied for the SWAT team”