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TREY

Trey opened the door to his apartment, picked up his mail. His sister had left a note. He dumped the mail and sat down with the note. He smiled as he finished.John, I saw you looking at Dr. Jule. There’s a school thing on the 19th. She’ll be there. You had better be there. Love, Tara.

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DUKE

Duke walked into Embry's room as she was finishing giving information to a nurse, in preparation for discharge. “Address?”

Embry looked around, “Local hotel.” Of course, she had come back months early from her sea tour. She would not have a residence yet.

“We can’t release you to no address and you shouldn't be alone.”

“She won't be,” Duke spoke up. He rattled off his address and insisted he would be there with her.

“You don't need to do that,” Embry stated when the nurse left.

“Believe me, I want to,” Duke answered. “And now I don't have to come up with some way to convince you to be with me.”

“What isit you do in the Navy?” Duke asked once he got her settled in his apartment. She was lounging on his couch, and he was desperately trying to keep his wandering mind in check.

“I'm a GSM.”

“No, kidding? Wow.”

“I like it, lots of sea tours though.”

Duke was failing miserably against his body. “Do you need anything? Water? Food?” “Water,” Embry latched on to. Duke turned on his heel and went to the kitchen for a bottle of water. “I don’t think I'm going to make it 30 days,” Embry stated as he came back into the room. He froze and closed his eyes. “What are you doing?” she asked.

“Praying for strength,” he answered as he stepped closer. Their hands touched as he tried handing off the bottle, their lips right after. He laid his weight down to keep her from bucking against him. Her good hand moved down his chest and stomach, under the edge of his shirt. Rotating her wrist, her fingers slid inside his jeans, her palm sliding down his happy trail. He gasped as her fingers made contact with the base of his cock. “Fuck,” he muttered as he pulled back to his knees, her hand flipping around and grabbing the front of his jeans. “We shouldn't--" “You need to touch me,” Embry cut him off. His hands slid down her sides. As his fingers hit the waistband of her sweatpants, he tucked his right hand under, and his left held her hips still.

His finger slid into her wet folds, “Embry…” He ground into her clit; she came quickly. Duke pulled his hand clear, sucking on his soaked fingers, “Jeezuz, woman.” He pulled back to his knees, his hard on painful and obvious.

“Where are you going?”

“To take care of this,” Duke motioned toward his groin and headed for a shower.

Two more weekswere both heaven and hell for him. Embry only improved his place and therefore his day every time he came home. On the other hand, his body desperately wanted to spend hours loving her, his cock snug inside her, and the team's razing at PT did not help. Embry was working hard on coming off painkillers and starting physical therapy to start re-engaging her core muscles. She was going to be reassigned to an instructor position once she was able to start work again, and a replacement for her out on the fleet was already enroute.

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MADDOX

“Where are you?” Ferret asked. Maddox gave the address and hung up. He arrived at a local animal rescue and was escorted back to a play area. Quietly he watched Maddox as she sat on the ground, surrounded by puppies and full-grown dogs, talking with them, and laughing. An older dog looked up from her attention and growled at Ferret.

Maddox looked around, “take your hat off, she doesn’t see well.” Ferret pulled off his hat and moved closer to her. She cuddled and played with the puppies and dogs for another 45mins.

“She’s really great with them,” a rescue employee came up behind Ferret.

“Yeah, it looks like it.”

“Pretty sure if she had a place, we’d be running the rescue from it.”

“What do you mean, if she had a place?”

“I thought you were dating?”

“I…” he stumbled.

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