Chapter Three
Cassie smothered a laugh as Parker’s eyes grew wide. If she’d learned one thing on her last two tours, it was that life was too short to wait around. Seeing people you loved die had a way of cutting through all life’s bullshit. And she’d given Parker plenty of opportunities to make his move. Hell, they saw each other every day. Multiple times a day. And while she’d caught him staring when he thought she wasn’t looking, he’d stayed infuriatingly professional.
She was pretty sure he was interested in picking up where they’d left off the night before she’d left for basic all those years ago. But she was tired of waiting. And if that meant shocking him by taking the bull by the horns, so be it. If he wasn’t interested, better to find out now.
Parker opened his mouth to speak,
