Cut and Run 07 Touch & Geaux (42 page)

Ty subtly turned the papers away from her and nodded.

“You’re . . . you’re going back to the Marines?” Alston stuttered. “I thought SOCOM was defunct.”

“It’s MARSOC now,” Ty mumbled.

”But that’s special operations. You don’t have a choice?”

“No. I don’t.” He studied the orders. “I report in forty-eight hours. Immediate deployment.”

Zane stood. His hands shook as he gripped the edge of the desk. Ty looked up, seeking Zane out. Zane could see it in Ty’s eyes. There was no choice. No way to wriggle out of it. No way for anyone to save him.

“Oh God, Ty,” Zane whispered.

Ty stared at him for a moment longer as the others broke into outraged babbling. Then Ty shook himself. He tossed the packet of orders onto the desk and stalked over to Zane.

He grabbed his face with both hands and kissed him.

The room spun to a halt. The babble ground to a stunned hush.

Ty’s hands moved to the small of his back and he held him tight, bending him just enough for Zane to have to wrap his arms around him to keep from falling. He kissed him again. In front of their coworkers. In front of King and Country and anyone who would watch. It was the first purely honest kiss they’d ever shared.

And it was a kiss good-bye.

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Abigail Roux was born and raised in North Carolina. A past volleyball star who specializes in sarcasm and painful historical accuracy, she currently spends her time coaching high school volleyball and investigating the mysteries of single motherhood. Any spare time is spent living and dying with every Atlanta Braves and Carolina Panthers game of the year. Abigail has a daughter, Little Roux, who is the light of her life, a boxer, four rescued cats who play an ongoing live-action variation of
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throughout the house, one evil Ragdoll, a certifiable extended family down the road, and a cast of thousands in her head.

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