CHAPTER ONE... Being a woman at Naval Base Diego Garcia, a small island in the Indian Ocean, means that finding a man isn’t difficult. It’s finding privacy that's sometimes hard. Much harder because I’m an enlisted Navy Petty Officer, 2nd Class (E-5), and the man I’m waiting for is an officer. Which is why I’m walking on a section of beach as far as it is possible to get from the buildings of the base. Yeah, I know I have...

Friday Afternoon... (continued) Dwayne scrambled backward so fast he tripped when his pants tangled around his ankles. His ass would have hit the floor except his back hit the wall first. "Isn't it self-explanatory what I was doing before you barged in?" Brenda smiled at me. When her eyes turned to Dwayne, her smile became a predatory grin. "And you," I brought him into the conversation. "You hypocrite! After all the time...

Chapter Two "It appears you are exactly who my team has been waiting for, Petty Officer Ellis," Colonel Brigham said with a brief smile, which I guessed was very seldom seen on his stern face. He called Sergeant Richter into the office. "Sergeant, show Petty Officer Ellis to the nearest ladies' room. I'm sure she'd appreciate the chance to freshen up after her long trip. Then take her to the break room. I'm equally certai...

Chapter Three... Thursday Afternoon.... After the briefing ended, I followed the team to the mess hall. I ate until I couldn't eat anymore. I endured the comments about my pigging out, only raising an occasional middle finger. Screw 'em, after vending machine food for most of three days, I deserved to pig out! In the unit room, I met Sergeant Eugene Wilson, although he was introduced as 'our Genie'. Wilson was the procure...

Early Friday Morning... The phone beside the bed rang. WTF? Why am I getting... Oh, yeah... I vaguely remembered asking for two wake-up calls. Why? Then the phone rang again. It was... Jace? Who? Oh, yeah... My two awake brain cells began working. "Did you mean it?" Mean what??? Oh, yeah... "Come up and find out..." Ugghh... I seemed to have trouble hitting the floor with my feet. My head kept floating off my shoulders. M...