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I could, and I would.
At my nod, Luca had me on my feet and he was leading me back toward the still pissy officer and
Tim.
Tim didn’t even glance sideways when we arrived.
He was still wholly focused on the officer tearing him a new one… for something that I’d done.
“That was my fault,” I said, interrupting the man’s tirade.
The officer looked at me like he couldn’t believe I’d just interrupted him.
“I was having a panic attack,” I said, ignoring his obvious disapproval. “I had to get out of there, or I would throw up.”
“Well you almost got yourself killed,” he snapped at me.
He was looking at me as if I’d grown a second head. As if he couldn’t believe I was actually
addressing him and interrupting him at that.
Well, tough shit.
I didn’t care who that man was.
He wasn’t an officer over me.
He was just a man that was ripping Tim a new asshole for something that I’d done.
And I wasn’t okay with that.
The officer narrowed his eyes at me, and I allowed my gaze to drift down the man’s chest to see
that his name, Ortiz, was stitched onto his breast pocket.
Luca, realizing that I was now well and truly pissed, squeezed my hand with urgency.
I knew he was telling me to get it under control, but that wasn’t happening.
I wasn’t under control even a little bit.
In fact, when Ortiz narrowed his eyes, ready to start in on me when he realized that I wasn’t
cowering to his aura of authority, my hands clenched into fists.
“You’re on US Military property, ma’am,” Ortiz snapped. “And although you may think that Tim
wasn’t in the wrong, he was.”
Maybe.
Maybe not.
“I don’t really give a flying fuck what you think right now,” I snapped, not believing I’d just let those words come out of my mouth. “I’ve had a really fucked up three days. And if I’m being honest, a really fucked up two years. So yeah, you can just go fuck yourself, okay?”
Tim went absolutely green.
I could see his eyes widen.
