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JAK. “So you said we’d discuss it in the morning, it’s almost ten o’clock, sleepy head, you awake yet?”
I rubbed my tired eyes and glanced toward Karter’s voice. She stood beside the bed in what appeared to be a pair of jean shorts and nothing else. I blinked my eyes and tried to focus. Sure enough, she stood with paint brush in hand, half-naked and barefoot. I smiled and rolled to my side as I admired her. Karter was just…
Perfect.
“I’m awake, let me get up,” I chuckled.
The house smelled of coffee and bacon. I tossed my legs to the side of the bed and pressed my feet onto the floor. As I stood, I realized I was naked. I had no real recollection of even getting into the bed the night before, let alone getting undressed. I rubbed my eyes again and looked around the room.
“On the dresser, I folded them,” she grinned as she tapped the tip of the paint brush against her lip.
“I don’t even remember getting undressed,” I sighed as I walked to the dresser.
“You didn’t. You passed out. I undressed you. I like you naked more than I like you in boxers, so…” she tilted her head to the side as I pulled my boxers over my thighs.
“You little shit,” I laughed.
She tilted her head to the other side and smiled, “So, were you on a mission?”
I turned to face her as I pulled my pants on, “Yes, and as a matter of fact, my last.”
“You promise?” she asked.
I nodded my head as I buttoned my pants, “Yes, I promise.”
“Were you out of the country?” she asked.
“I was in a place farther away than I have ever been,” I said softly.
She shifted the weight on her feet as I approached her, bending her right knee slightly. The nipples were full on her tan perky breasts. Seeing her standing in the doorway half-naked was all I could take. To think my nightmare was over provided a relief of epic proportion.
“What did you have to do?” she asked.
“It’s classified, but I can tell you this. The Commander and I had to find someone. Someone only I knew how to find. It took several days, but we found him, and everything is going to be just fine,” I smiled as I reached around her and hugged her.
“Was he okay?” she asked.
I considered her question and before much thought, I responded, “No honey, he was dead. We knew he was dead; we just had to find him. But everything’s fine now. That’ll be the last time I ever leave you.”
“I read about that. Never leave a fallen teammate behind. I like that,” she breathed into my neck.
I was prepared to forget Graham, forget Shelley, forget the war, and forget the killing. It was time for me to begin my new life of loving Karter, and nothing short of doing so was going to satisfy me. As I lifted her from her feet, she squeaked and squeezed me in her arms.
“What are you working on?” I asked as I carried her out of the bedroom and toward the kitchen.
“Just goofing. Guess what?” she whispered into my ear.
“Uhhm, what?”
“I made forty grand this weekend,” she said softly.
“Say again?”
“Forty. Grand,” she giggled.
“How?”
