you in your BDUs?”
“I have to go to the base.”
“You can’t be serious. You’re cutting out on us tonight? After what we all went through this afternoon?”
“It isn’t a matter of my cutting out of here, Gia,” he chided. “I want to pull some favors.”
“What kind of favors?” she demanded.
“Six free days for Luke and me before he deploys. Plenty of time to fly to Las Vegas and get this sorted.”
“I haven’t agreed to marry you. I don’t need you to pull any favors on my behalf.”
“We’re getting married, Luke. If I have to prod a goddamn shotgun in your back. We’d have married years ago if we could have, so I don’t know what’s holding you back now.”
“Because I want to marry the pair of you.”
“Well, you can’t.”
“Thanks for clarifying that for me, Josh,” Luke snapped. “What would we do without you?”
“Boys, stop it. In a perfect world, of course, we’d all get married. But this is far from being perfect. As it is, what’s finally happening in the US is epic. Let’s celebrate. You two have been together for a lifetime, and I want to watch you get married. I want to see it happen. It will make me happy.”
“How can it? I don’t want you to feel left out.”
She couldn’t help but snort at that. “Baby, I’m in the bath because I’ve been anything but left out. You think I look like a prune now? Wait until I’m finished in here.”
Charmed when his cheeks pinkened a little, she smiled at him encouragingly.
“If we do this, then we make legal provisions for Gia, Josh. More than we already have done.”
Josh popped his cap off his head and crumpled it in his hand. “Of course. That was always a given.”
Luke’s jaw rose. The stubborn move had Gia waiting for the bubble to burst. “I won’t get married in a cheap, shitty chapel. I want a proper church.”
“I’m sure there’s something that will suit you in Las Vegas. We can go and recon the place, find something that will make you happy. You think I want Elvis to marry us?”
“Well, as long as that’s understood.”
“It is,” Josh bit out, sarcasm loading his tone. “Now, I’m going to lick some ass. And I’ll have you know that general ass is the worst kind. Don’t say thank you too soon.”
Luke pursed his lips, staying silent until Gia splashed some water at him. “Thank you,” he relented enough to say.
“Well, I finally know what it feels like to be engaged,” Josh remarked to the room at large. He stepped over to the bath, then leaned over and waited for Gia to reach him and kiss his lips. With a sniff, he pointedly ignored Luke and made to turn away.
Quick as a flash, Luke grabbed the back of his jacket. “Give me a kiss, jackass.”
“And you say I’m not romantic,” Josh complained, but he bent down and let their mouths connect. He sighed, then pressed his forehead to Luke’s. “Look, I love you, you dick. I want the world to know it. I want that fucking school to know it. You understand me?”
“No, I don’t, but I’ll do it.”
“You don’t want to rock the boat; well, screw it. We’re both reaching the ends of our contracts. I have to retire when I’ve served for thirty years because they’re not going to promote me any higher. And I doubt you’ll stay on. I say screw them. I’m sick of hiding this. I’m sick of having to lie about you. It’s all okay because Gia’s here and we have a child together. The generals can forgive it because we look like a normal family if viewed a certain way. Well, fuck that.”
“Since when were you a rebel?”
“Since the man I love wanted to leave this family because society sucks balls.” He paused. “And not as well as you do.”
Luke ducked his head, a sheepish grin on his face. Gia couldn’t hide her own smile. She’d written countless scenes thanks to the inspiration of watching Luke rim Josh’s ass before dropping down to lick his balls. Her exhausted and aching cunt twinged a little at the
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