CHAPTER 1: ANNIE
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Annie changed out of her uniform and into her T-shirt and jeans. This sucked. She wanted to kill Ethan and Patrick. She grabbed her purse from her locker and pulled out the picture Vic had sent to her his first year as a marine. She ran her finger over her brother’s face. He was so young and full of life and hope. Her heart broke all over again for the loss—her brother’s and hers.
She touched Ethan’s face. He was to Vic’s right and he was so handsome. He still was, but she’d never been attracted to him—her crush when she was ten didn’t count. Her gaze drifted to the third man in the photo—Patrick.
Even as a teenager, she’d been drawn to him, this stranger in a photo. There was something about his smile and his eyes that made her feel safe. He looked like the
