Taking my hand down, I sign, ‘I got caught in an explosion. I’m fine, just look like phantom of the opera.’ I have to spell it
out because I don’t have all the words.
‘You are Jake?’ she asks. She’s got a pretty smile. I nod. ‘Mitch told me about you.’
‘You know my name, but I don’t know yours.’
‘I am Sam. Like Sam I am.’ She smiles and makes a laugh sound deep in her throat. That’s why it sounded distorted.
‘Nice to meet you, Sam I am. Are you okay?’ I wonder what the hell she was doing sitting on the ground in the woods.
She blushes and I watch it move up her face. ‘I was singing. I saw a rabbit and followed it, then started singing to see if it
would come back.’

The Baxters: Jake: Book 4

Jake’s been working with the Baxters since they were on SEAL Team 10. That’s more than ten years. He’s watched their kids grow up and his other team members and coworkers getting married. He wants all of that too. He’s sick of picking up…

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