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CHAPTER ONE
‘SO, I TAKE it you’ve never had the pleasure ofColonel Man Candy either?’
Fliss paused in her half-hearted attempt to cut up her breakfast with the flimsy plastic knife and fork, and stared at her friend incredulously Then, given the din of the several hundred men in the Army mess tent, assuht-hour shift had ination
‘Say again? For a ht you said Colonel Man Candy’
‘Yeah, I did’ Her friend grinned wickedly ‘But it gets better Apparently up until a few o he was Major Man Candy’
Fliss snorted ‘Major Man Candy? Seriously, Elle?’
‘Seriously’
‘People actually call him that?’
‘They actually do’ Her friend shrugged ‘To the extent that I have no idea what his real naood portion of the ca about his arrival, h for different reasons Apparently, he’s also so of a maverick who has risked his life for his men on multiple occasions’
Unconvinced, Fliss wrinkled her nose
‘I haven’t heard any buzz Not even a single z’
‘No, well, you wouldn’t—you don’t indulge in gossip and anyone who knows you knows better than to engage with you unless it’s strictly Army related, preferably medical’
‘I dogossip’ Fliss nodded uncertainly, biting back the fact she’d been about to comment that it would be inappropriate for any colonel, Man Candy or otherwise, to have any kind of relationship with most of the camp
Her friend’s snort said it all
‘Fliss, you cannot gossip for the life of you And certainly not about fellow ues’
‘I don’t agree For a start this, e’re doing right now, is gossip’
‘No, this islike, Well, interpersonal relationships between ranks aren’t appropriate because they cority of a unit’
Caught red-handed, Fliss could only flush as her friend laughed fondly She lifted her head
‘Wellit is true’
‘Fliss, you know that I love you In fact, if you were a stick of rock you’d have Arh’
Fliss blew out a deep breath, a fa soain She’d always been known as serious Fliss, nerdy Fliss, prirained in her The result, no doubt, of having being raised froh and through, believing in the extre sense of discipline, values and ethics