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Richie rubbed at his jaw again. It didn’t hurt that much—thank goodness he’d had her mostly pinned to the ground, making it harder to drive the blow home—but he was getting good sympathy points. It had been hard to get the reaction he’d wanted out of Melissa. He’d had to pretend he was that jerk Drill Sergeant back in Basic who was always trying to manhandle female recruits no matter how many times he got slapped.
Richie had discovered what kind of a soldier he was going to be during the fourth week of Basic. Despite the risks, he took down his own Drill Sergeant in the middle of an attempted rape and delivered him gagged to the base commander’s office wearing a sign that said, I am a serial rapist. It was written and signed in the man’s own hand, photographs attached, and he’d been d
