Chapter 19

Exactly ten minutes later Knox was cursing next to me. The turkey bacon popped sending little bits of oil out towards his bare chest. I couldn't help but laugh every time he jumped backwards, now too stubborn to put a shirt on.

"I told you."

"So you said ten times already." Knox gritted through his teeth.

"You'll learn that I am almost always right." With the bacon almost done I finally opened the carton of eggs. "How do you like yours?"

"I'll have them whatever way you have them." Knox shrugged.

"You don't have a preference?"

"You learn to eat whatever others do in the military. Don't really have the luxury of gourmet meals." His words made my chest squeeze. It said it so casually but it had to have sucked. He did three tours. Three!

"Not gonna happen." I shook my head. Not on my watch. "How would you like your eggs?"

"Aubrey-" I ignored the way my name sounded on his lips.

"I'm the one cooking the eggs so what I sa