Hilt tips his chin toward First, and Catch notices, for the first time, that First is wearing his black service jumper. His pilot’s outfit.
Complete with black-and-silver wings stitched above the insignia.
“Told you. I flew in this morning.”
“Flew…” Catch can’t quite wrap his head around the word, though it should mean everything to him.
Once upon a time, it did.
But he just blinks, foggily, at his best friend, at those shiny wings above his lieutenant’s insignia.
Lieutenant.
First’s been promoted.
Catch swallows thickly… resolve hardening in his throat like a rock he can’t quite choke down. So unaccustomed to this feeling; the sudden whim taking hold, solidifying into something essential. Into a sense of fucking purpose.
Like something actually matters again.
“Wherever you’re going, I’m going.”
First says nothing as Catch digs through his closet for a clean shirt. A button-up, like Hilt is wearing.
“They have to give me my wings back, too. You told them that, right? Adam?” He turns to find First gone, the door sliding shut in his wake, and Hilt still watching him. “The hell’s he going?”
“You’ve got worse problems than all that shit.” Hilt’s tone is a strange blend of caution, warning, and sympathy. “Those ships that just came in? Your girl’s on one of them.”
Catch just stands there, half-dressed, unable to process this. He didn’t even say her name, but they both know exactly who Hilt’s talking about.
Hilt pats him on the ribs and heads for the door as Catch struggles to wrap his head around it. Lana… here… on his station.
Right now.
“She’s not my girl,” he manages to say, but Hilt is already gone.
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Jaine Diamond is the author of the Dirty rockstar romance series and the DEEP erotic romance series. She is fond of writing the love stories of built and badass men endowed with massive hearts, and strong, complex women she’d love to have a cocktail with.
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