Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Grant stared at Kelly, disbelief written all over his face. \u201cI can\u2019t believe it\u2019s really you. I tried to find you when I came back from Afghanistan, but it was if you disappeared off the face of the earth.\u201d He winced. \u201cTo be honest, I wasn\u2019t sure you\u2019d want to see me. According to Ronnie, you hated all of us. Blamed us all for your problems with the higher ups.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat?\u201d She groaned. \u201cDamn! I might have known Ronnie would blame everyone but himself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe all had our suspicions,\u201d Grant said with a sigh. \u201cBut when your Lieutenant tells you something, you\u2019re expected to believe it. No questions asked. Especially when that Lieutenant warned us that the brass had been so disgusted with your behavior, they\u2019d spoken of taking legal action. We were ordered to have no interaction with you while they debated legal action, despite none of us believing those trumped up charges. We knew you\u2019d never steal from the army and given how much you loathed drugs, we also knew you\u2019d never get into bed with traffickers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI tried to give my side of the story about all of that, but no one believed me. And despite the army being unable to produce enough legitimate evidence to instigate legal proceedings against me, they decided to force me out. Sweep it all under the carpet.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Kelly looked her old friend in the eyes. \u201cDid you believe I cheated on Ronnie? And with a commanding officer?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo! Hell no! I never believed that rubbish.\u201d He met her eyes, his gaze open and honest, willing her to accept his words as the truth. \u201cWe had that conversation, remember? You and I agreed to ignore whatever attraction we felt between us, despite how much I wanted to do exactly the opposite. You\u2019ve no idea how many times I wanted to drag you as far away from that bastard as possible. Get you completely out of that situation.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n She nodded. \u201cBut there was no point stirring Ronnie up. Everyone suspected that Ronnie was doing something illegal, so if I\u2019d publicly split from him at that stage, I would have been involved. Our time with the army was coming to an end anyway and I\u2019d already planned on getting away from him.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n She remembered very well that neither of them would take that step towards each other when she was already supposedly in a relationship with Ronnie. And Grant was far too honorable to ever come between two people who, to the outside world, appeared to be a perfect couple. In public, Ronnie claimed her as his girlfriend. In private, she saw very little of him, which was why she had suspected that he was doing more than simply cheating on her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"KJ_International](\"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KJ_MockUp_WindowsillPlants_TropicalView_Aqua4.png\")
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