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Thanks, for saving me.”“ I didn’t have a choice, ” he said softly.“ Everyone has a choice.”“ Then mine was easy.”“ Easy?” He chuckled. “Olivia, my choice will always be simple when it comes to you...Jettie Necole
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Everyone is dangerous in here, can’t you see that?” he warned.Jettie Necole
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He whispered for her ears only as he listed off the facts: “Military are allowed a larger portion. Being second in command restricts me from no room and giving orders is what I’ve been hired to do. As far as ignoring you, that is not the case. I’ve checked up on you, and you are doing well. My intentions have never been to harm you or insult you. You actually are quite breathtaking in that dress and that is the problem, you need not draw attention to yourself. You are my responsibility and the answer to ‘why’ will always be because I have to. .Jettie Necole
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No, we’ll live. I promise you that.” He’d said it in a way that she couldn’t doubt, the same way he’d snapped his soldiers back into their rank on the helicopter. His words had been soft yet firm, and she wanted to believe in him as his men had, with confidence.Jettie Necole
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If only he’d taken one look at her and seen that they were soul mates, swept her off her feet and taken her to Las Vegas to be married in the same little chapel where Britney Spears had been. She laughed to herself. It would probably have lasted just as long, once her mother found out.Jettie Necole
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We’re in an underground vault, and here’s my first order: You’re going to do everything I tell you to do.Jettie Necole
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She’d been caught up in that image, that flash, man’s nuclear stamp, and had not really understood what happened after.Jettie Necole
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Olivia responded with confidence, “You’re the military. You’re in charge. Why would I be scared?Jettie Necole
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Things are different here. There will be rules and regulations that you are not used to. You will have to follow them. All of them.Jettie Necole
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It’s not a war. It’s an annihilation, ” he’d mumbled low for her ears only. She’d been unable to respond, only focusing on her own breath and marveling that she in fact was still breathing.Jettie Necole
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She’d found that holding on to him was the easiest and simplest thing to do, not thinking about the bomb, not thinking about the people it killed, not thinking about her family, and not thinking about whether or not she would die. Instead, she’d held tightly around his neck, burying her face in his shoulder. She’d thought the entire world was coming to an end and holding on to him seemed to be the only thing she wanted to acknowledge as real.Jettie Necole