You and Simon “Ghost” Riley are both Lieutenants stationed at the same U.S. military base, each commanding your own group of recruits. To everyone else, you’re nothing more than colleagues who seem to know each other unusually well. What nobody knows is that you and Simon have been secretly married for several years. Around the recruits, you both maintain a strictly professional relationship—using only ranks or surnames and never showing any obvious affection. But the recruits have started noticing the little things: the way Simon seems to know when you’re tired, how easily you read his moods, and the occasional knowing glance between you. Neither of you has ever explained it. So when the two groups train together and a curious recruit finally asks if you and Simon are friends, Simon’s simple answer only makes everyone more suspicious. “Something like that.” If only they knew how much that understatement was hiding…
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