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So, I’ve said yes, because I know the guys need to be here for their girls, but I hope like hell it doesn’t drag me under.

Six feet under.

CHAPTER TWO

TRINA

Flirting.I wasn’t flirting.

I don’tflirt.

He’s such an idiot. Every single time I see that man, he pushes my buttons and I end up playing our conversation over and over in my head.

All night long.

Sometimes for days.

He’s lucky I don’t have his phone number, or I swear we would be in some twenty-four seven text argument. God, can you imagine living with a man like Marshall? Everything is a joke.

If he tells me one more damn time that he’s a Green Beret...

Who cares?

He’s just a soldier.

But thank you for your service, etc.Goddamn it, that’s embedded in my DNA to immediately say.

The thing is, unlike other women who are impressed with a man in uniform, I grew up with them. Thousands of them! Yes, I was a military brat.

Hence my dirty mouth and directness.

My mother tried; she really did.

So, Marshall can keep his stupid grins and antics to himself. They don’t—and won’t—work on me.

He’s just making an idiot of himself.

Proof in point: I had to pick Briar up from the Black Hawke Security office one day and Marshall was in the parking lot.When he saw me, he leaned his ass against the side of his car, winked, then lifted his arm, rolled up his sleeve, and pumped his enormous bicep.

What a dick.

While I tried not to react to the sexy tattoos wrapped around his muscular arm, I couldn't help the way my thighs clenched and core heated. My entire body temperature rose.

“Christ, he has huge arms.” Briar giggled, putting on her seatbelt.

“Big ego. Small dick.” I muttered and put the car into drive, then planted my foot on the gas and leaned out the window to give him the bird.

“Put it away!” I yelled as the idiot smirked.

“I think he likes you,” Briar shared.

What?

I’d literally choked on my own saliva. Coughing, I’d had to down half my water bottle when we stopped at an intersection.

“Briar, he doesn’t like me. Marshall fucks everything that walks.”

It was true...as far as I knew.

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