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    Her Heart and the “Friend” Command: Delta Force Short Stories, #7
    Her Heart and the “Friend” Command: Delta Force Short Stories, #7
    Her Heart and the “Friend” Command: Delta Force Short Stories, #7
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    Her Heart and the “Friend” Command: Delta Force Short Stories, #7

    By M. L. Buchman

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    -a Delta Force romance story-

    Military War Dog handler Liza Minot finally lands her big chance. A Delta Force mission requires her and Sergey’s specialty—tracking explosives.

    When assigned to Master Sergeant Garret Conway’s squad, her past confronts her. Back in high school days, he ran over her first dog. Rex’s old age and failing health made it a cruelty or a mercy—she still can’t decide which. However, Conway the boy and Conway the man are two very different problems.

    Only with her war dog’s help can they both break free of their past to track down Her Heart and the “Friend” Command.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBuchman Bookworks, Inc.
    Release dateAug 12, 2017
    ISBN9781945740329
    Her Heart and the “Friend” Command: Delta Force Short Stories, #7
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    M. L. Buchman

    USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. "Matt" Buchman has 70+ action-adventure thriller and military romance novels, 100 short stories, and lotsa audiobooks. PW says: “Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more.” Booklist declared: “3X Top 10 of the Year.” A project manager with a geophysics degree, he’s designed and built houses, flown and jumped out of planes, solo-sailed a 50’ sailboat, and bicycled solo around the world…and he quilts.

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      Her Heart and the “Friend” Command - M. L. Buchman

      Her Heart and the “Friend” Command

      Her Heart and the Friend Command

      a Delta Force romance

      M. L. Buchman

      Buchmann Bookworks, Inc.

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      Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Chapter 13

      Chapter 14

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      1

      T oday’s the day, Sergey .

      He watched her as she lashed on her fatigues, boots, vest, and helmet. His eyes tracked every motion as she stood over her pack in the safehouse bedroom. A grand word for a faded concrete cube, peeling whitewash, and a steel cot that might have once been comfortable, but certainly wasn’t anymore. A tiny window let in the last of the day’s red light and the occasional whirl of the bitter dust that southern Afghanistan used for soil.

      You’d make me feel crazy self-conscious, Sergey, if you weren’t a dog. Her fifty-five pound Malinois war dog popped to his feet as she knelt beside him to strap on his own Kevlar vest. Normally he’d be kenneled rather than curled up at the foot of her bunk but, since the US military had sent her to a forward operating base in Afghanistan hell, such amenities were non-existent. She far preferred having her big furry boy asleep at her feet. They both did.

      Of course, Delta Force never is anywhere normal, are we? She slipped the vest over his head and smoothed it down his back. Flipping the chest strap between his front legs, she buckled it into the belly of the harness. One more strap farther back and he was fully geared up. She double-checked the feed from the flip-up camera on his back and tested the infrared nightlight. Both showed up clearly on her wrist screen and her night-vision goggles. All set for a little nightwork. The small window filled with the last red of the sunset meant they’d be on the move soon.

      Delta Force. We. That was such a cool sound. She’d made it. Sideways, but she’d made it into the most elite fighting force anyway. Even Delta needed MWDs—military war dogs, though she preferred multi-pawed wagging detectors—and dogs for Special Operations needed their Spec Ops handlers. Dogs for the regular forces could transfer from one handler to the next, but it took a very special person to manage a dog trained to Delta standards.

      You are so handsome in your vest, aren’t you? She rubbed his ears then brushed her hands down his legs, an automatic gesture in which she checked for everything from burrs in the fur to the condition of underlying muscle and bone.

      Where do I sign up for such treatment, Minnow?

      She sighed. Of course no world was perfect.

      Elizabeth Minot—the nickname had been inevitable despite her family pronouncing it My-not—didn’t bother to look up at the male voice; didn’t need to turn to know what he looked like.

      Garret Conway would have shoved aside the aging drape that served as the room’s door with a military disregard for gender. He’d be slouching against one of the jambs, arms crossed over his chest as he glared down at the two of them with his dark brown eyes. He wasn’t much taller than she was, Delta selection didn’t favor tall and strong, but rather the driven and powerful. Dark hair worn long, a trim beard that eased the hard lines of his face.

      So instead, she continued talking to Sergey as she finished checking him over. Pads of his paws…tail. As always, she tweaked the tip for good luck which earned her a doggie smile. All good.

      Maybe if the nasty sergeant promised to love me for a Kong dog toy and a crunchy biscuit, I’d deign to talk to him. Like she’d give the arrogant bastard the time of day. He’d been an utter twit of a boy back in the blue-collar core of Baltimore—the Dundalk neighborhood being the only thing they had in common. And just because he’d grown up into a seriously handsome

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