Chapter 2

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Chapter TwoYou’re shitting me!” “We’ve told Command that you were the best qualified, and they agreed.” Mark and Emily had taken her out for a lunchtime sail on the Chesapeake Bay that cloudless September day for “the talk.” She hated sailing, lunchtime or otherwise. Though she was feeling a sudden antipathy for Major Mark Henderson that threatened to make that feeling trivial by comparison. “W’all,” Henderson pulled out that horrid fake Texas accent that he was dumb enough to think was cute and funny. “All y’all have ta do is—” “Throw you overboard! Have you lost it, Henderson?” He gave her one of those looks, raised eyebrows of mock surprise over his mirrored Ray Ban sunglasses. “Sir!” she amended with a snarl. His grin was electric, and if Emily hadn’t been seated just to Mark’s

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