Julie Miller - Basic Training

Travis unhooked his feet from the T-bar and dropped them to the floor so he could turn and fiddle with the machinery behind him. “I can handle more weight, you know.”

Tess frowned at the back of his head. She was as perplexed by his abrupt change in subject as she was relieved. The Action Man she knew would never have passed on such an easy opportunity to hook up with an attractive woman.

But then, the flirtatious hero she once knew had been an unpredictable man since coming home from Quantico. This man got angry. This man hesitated. There was a chink in the confidence that had once exuded from every pore. A chink that revealed an edge to Travis she’d never seen before. When she’d sent him off to college, to basic training, to officer candidate school, to assignments across the country and across the world, he’d always been cocky but in control—a man who knew who he was, knew what he wanted, knew what he was capable of. He was a man who delivered each and every time—and took pride in that fact.

Had his brush with death really changed him? Or was this version of Travis merely the golden boy finally growing up and learning that he was human like everybody else?

If the former golden boy had been lust-worthy, this moodier, edgier Travis touched something deeper inside her. The old Travis had needed nothing. No one. This one needed…something.

And whether it was a friendly hug, a roll in the hay or a kick in the pants, she wanted to be the one to give it to him.

She wanted to be what he needed.

Burying her own pointless urges, Tess pulled his hand from the weights at the back of the machine. “We’re not pushing anything until I’m certain you won’t cause more damage to that knee.”

Travis stood, butting her shoulder as he moved past her. “The main reason I’m here is to keep Dad happy. He thinks I need a nursemaid.”

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