Chapter 7
Nika hadn’t heard Clint arrive outside her door, even as he blocked the corridor light that shone through the crack. Again that unexpected lightness of a Special Operations soldier.
She had no doubt that he would come, even if she did wonder at the invitation she’d offered. In the eight years of four tours and a blur of deployments, she’d been with a Marine pilot for six months and a Petty Officer from the engine crew for three. Other than a couple brief encounters while on leave, that had been the extent of her relationships since that day she walked off the college campus and into the military.
She never went into s*x thinking it was just casual, even if she quickly concluded that’s all it could ever be with that person. But with Clint, she’d decided that casual was the only
