Page 156 of Chaos has a Name
God.
She was gorgeous.
“What?” he asked, horrified, hoping Rayna didn’t notice him staring at her. If she did, he’d be ill. There was no way he could ask her out.
She was way too beautiful.
Elizabeth saw him struggling, so she was to the point.
“We don’t know how long we’re going to be here. Ask the babe out. She was giving you the eyes. She liked what she saw. Have some fun, and make some memories. You can’t live your life in isolation.”
Uriel wasn’t sure.
He’d been having a shit streak with women. Most of them were nice, but he liked yoga.
Meditation.
Crystals and New Age things.
So many women thought it was weird when he went home after work and instead of getting drunk or laid, he liked to balance his Chi.
More often than not, the other Marines busted his ass for not eating meat, liking granola and yogurt, and how he approached things.
CAREFULLY.
Once burned, ten times shy.
Basically, Uriel was Zen to his core, and that didn’t mix with the ladies he met in DC.
The ladies liked a big Marine, but not his version. Unfortunately, he came across as weird, and he didn’t know how not to be that.
It made him…awkward.
“I don’t know.”
The other man was curious.
“Why not?” Gene asked, trying to help Elizabeth out. He knew Uriel was striking out with the ladies.
A.
Lot.
“I’m not looking for fun,” he said, getting out of the vehicle.
When Gene and Elizabeth jumped out behind him at the rear door, they were still curious.
“How will you know if there’s more there if you don’t start with fun?” Gene asked. “Why do I feel like I had this conversation before? Oh, I did. With Corbin twenty-two years ago.”
Elizabeth shrugged.
“I run on fun.”
From where he stood, Ivan rolled his eyes.
“You run on sarcasm, being a bitch, and caffeine. Trust me, there’s no fun anywhere in the middle of this,” he said, pointing at her torso. “It’s all crazy.”
Meh.
