After we lost our child, I got rid of every habit Beau Walker hated.
I stopped asking where he’d been. I stopped waiting up for him. Even when he didn’t come home at all, I still went to sleep.
I was injured during a training accident.
The base doctor told me to notify my family. All I said was, “I don’t have an emergency contact.”
The nurse beside him recognized me.
“You’re Major Wells, aren’t you? General Walker is in the command center next door. Should I get him?”
I shook my head.
But half an hour later, Beau came anyway.
He stood beside my hospital bed, his uniform immaculate, his voice hard.
“Why didn’t you call me?”
I looked down at the bandages on my hand.
“It’s nothing serious. No need to trouble the General.”
The moment the words left my mouth, his expression tightened.
He was about to speak when the voices of two soldiers drifted in from the hallway.
“General Walker really cares about that USO performer.”
“That girl, Kinsley, twisted her ankle during the show, and he called for his command vehicle immediately.”
“Carried her himself, too. Wouldn’t even let her walk.”
Beau’s shoulders went rigid.
He glanced at me, as if waiting for me to say something.
Before, hearing something like that would have made me demand answers.
This time, I said nothing. I just leaned back against the pillow and closed my eyes.
The General’s Ex-Wife Is A Colonel He Can’t Have Chapter 16 Later, I learned that during my operation, Beau’s unit had been conducting field training only three hundred miles away. He had requested to join the rescue mission, but Joint Command had denied him. When General Thompson mentioned it, his tone was dismissive. “His head
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The General’s Ex-Wife Is A Colonel He Can’t Have Chapter 15 The mission was even harder than I’d expected. I spent seventeen days behind enemy lines, and nearly didn’t make it out several times. The day I secured the intelligence, my position was compromised. The enemy pinned me down in a mountain valley. I was
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The General’s Ex-Wife Is A Colonel He Can’t Have Chapter 14 I read the file, then closed it. “I’ll go.” General Thompson looked at me. “Are you sure? This isn’t a routine mission. There’s a real chance you won’t come back.” “I’m sure,” I said. “When my parents left for their last missions, they didn’t
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The General’s Ex-Wife Is A Colonel He Can’t Have Chapter 13 I turned to look at him. “Back then, I thought what we had was stronger than love.” “We’d been to war together. I thought that kind of bond couldn’t break.” “I learned that it could.” “To you, I was a default setting. You were
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The General’s Ex-Wife Is A Colonel He Can’t Have Chapter 12 “Celine…” His voice was rough. I closed the door and sat on the sofa farthest from him. “General Walker, if this is about the divorce, please contact the JAG office.” Beau crossed the room in a few quick strides and dropped into a crouch
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The General’s Ex-Wife Is A Colonel He Can’t Have Chapter 11 Arriving in Virginia felt like starting over. I was assigned to a department under the Defense Intelligence Agency, starting with basic analytical work. No one here knew about Beau and me. No one knew I had nearly died for that marriage. To my colleagues,
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The General’s Ex-Wife Is A Colonel He Can’t Have Chapter 10 The car drove deep into the base housing area, finally stopping in front of a small, red-brick house. A large oak tree stood in the yard. Under it sat a wooden table and two chairs. General Thompson told me my mother used to sit
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The General’s Ex-Wife Is A Colonel He Can’t Have Chapter 09 On the way to the airfield, I thought about the past. I thought of being eighteen, when Beau grabbed my hand and we ran from my foster home. I thought of being twenty, standing with him as he took his oath as a new
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The General’s Ex-Wife Is A Colonel He Can’t Have Chapter 08 As he spoke, he pulled my medical summary from his pocket. Kinsley’s mother skimmed it, then frowned in disgust. “So she’s crazy. No wonder she’s all alone. No one wants her.” Beau helped her away. From beginning to end, he never looked back at
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The General’s Ex-Wife Is A Colonel He Can’t Have Chapter 07 At the turn in the stairwell, my crutch slipped. I went down hard. The burn on my arm, which had just begun to scab over, split open. Blood seeped through the gauze. It was a bad fall. Something inside my chest finally snapped. I
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