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‘You can’t do that; you don’t have the authority You’re notofficer You’re not even medical’

‘No—’ he seemed unfazed ‘—but I am the CO of the infantry unit which provides your protection unit and, since they are uys, I do have a reason to be on that heli I hardly think your buddy Si to object when I run it by him Do you?’

‘It’s my heli, my run I could tell my CO it wouldn’t be appropriate’

She was grasping at straws and they both knew it The wicked s low in her core He dropped his voice to a husky rasp which seeers over the sensitive skin of her belly

‘And on what grounds exactly are you going to object?’

He had a point; she could hardly tell Simon that she didn’t want to be in clos

e confinement on a heli with the new infantry CO because there was an inexplicable chemistry between them that, when she was around him, made her body heat up and her brain shut down

She was trapped and they both knew it Worse, Fliss was left with the distinct impression that a tiny part of her actually liked it

Clenching her fists and spinning around as Sinored the terrifying voice which whispered that the truth was, she just ht

CHAPTER TWO

CROUCHED IN THE corner of the cra, noisy Chinook—kitted out as a full airborne e one could s to overwhelm him

He’d seen the MERT in action toohis seven tours of duty over the last decade, several back to back He had an incredible respect for the doctors androom Many of his men, his friends, were still alive today because of the swift, skilled actions of MERT teah he’d carried many casualties to the heli as part of the infantry tearound, the only time he’d actually been on board had been when he himself had been seriously injured

Ash kept his eyes firmly open If he closed them, the sounds were too brutally familiar If he closed theht back to that day If he closed the away

Instead, he studiously watched the attractive blonderooently prepping any last pieces of equipine her as the focused, ine her ever breaking the rules to save a soldier, the way his new unit had claimed she’d done on more than one occasion

But that wasn’t the reason he was here, was it?