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Tanya spent the next two days wandering around in a Chad-induced haze.
He hadn’t said he’d loved her.
Chad Hawkins might never do that.
But he’d shown that it was true beyond a shadow of a doubt.
He’d lifted that JG as if he weighed less than a sack of potatoes, not straining for a single moment. An Army sergeant beating on a Navy lieutenant? Even from one branch to another of the service, it was a court martial offense—not that the guy would dare to report it. Maybe Chad would be safe because the only people who had his name for the exchange were the CIA and they wouldn’t care what a Navy lieutenant had to say. But she doubted if that thought would have changed Chad’s actions in the slightest.
He hadn’t done more than tease the guy until the moment the JG had threatened her. She’
