The Russian Billionaire’s Secret(161)
In short, this book is going to get you very, very hot!
? Julia Becker
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Table Of Contents
Chapter 1: ARMY
Chapter 2: A Conversation With The Psychiatrist
Chapter 3: SoldierMatch.com
Chapter 4: The First Date
Chapter 5: Getting To Know Each Other
Chapter 6: Deep Thoughts
Chapter 7: Declarations of Love
Chapter 8: The Happy Ending
Chapter 1
ARMY
Soft, white light from a single incandescent light bulb illuminates the waiting room of Dr. Trevor Williams’s Green Bay offices. In the middle of the waiting room floor is a beautiful mahogany coffee table, upon which rests a stack of magazines ranging from “Field & Stream” to “Good Housekeeping,” and the “Sports Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition.”
The worn upholstery of the leather couches and sitting chairs that line the sand colored walls of the sitting area are in stark contrast to the fresh arrangements of fake yellow tulips that sit on the end tables that flank the seats.
Sitting alone on one of the leather sofas is a tall, muscle-bound man in his middle thirties. He is fiddling with a hole in the knee of his blue-jeans in the soft silence while his eyes dart from the flowers to the various certificates and licenses that adorn the walls. His gray t-shirt stretches across his massive chest, seemingly ready to burst at the seams from the enormity of his pecs and biceps.
In sharp relief, block letters spelling the word “ARMY” stretches across the front of his shirt, black and distorted by his muscles.
Around his neck are the dog tags that would have been used to identify his body, in the event that he had been killed in one of the several hell-holes that he visited during his time on active duty.
Stretching up his neck and behind his left ear is the image of a rattlesnake, mouth wide and ready to strike. On the inside his right forearm is a tattoo detailing his exploits as a green beret, one of the proud, few, elite soldiers that take on those missions that normal infantrymen are not trained, nor equipped, to complete.
The first tattoo is of a yellow, five pointed star, with a smaller, second star in its center. Above the star is a ribbon, colored with a pattern of red, blue, and red, with thin white lines between them. Above the ribbon are three “V’s” and a single oak-leaf cluster, showing that three of his four medals were awarded for valor in combat operations.
The second tattoo is similar, but rather than a yellow star with a red and blue ribbon, it is a golden star, with a smaller silver star in the center, and a red white and blue ribbon. Above the ribbon is a single oak-leaf cluster, showing that he received two of the awards for valor.
The third tattoo is of a golden eagle, such as the one in the Great Seal of the United States, with a blue circle around the eagle, saying “For Distinguished Service.” Above the image of the medal is a red ribbon, with a thick, white bar in the center, flanked by two, thin blue bars separating the white from the red.
Having only received one Distinguished Service Medal, there are no oak-leaf clusters above the ribbon. Next, is the medal for which the man is most proud: a golden heart, with a golden image of George Washington on a purple field for the foreground. Above the medal is the purple ribbon, and two oak-leaf clusters, showing that he received three of the awards.
Finally, there is an inverted five-point star, circled by a ring of greenery, below an eagle with the words “for Valor.” Above the eagle is a sky blue ribbon, with five white stars upon it. The Medal of Honor, while the most prestigious military decoration in the U.S., is the man’s least favorite commendation.
While serving in Afghanistan, during his most recent time spent in the country, he had been on a special assignment with his special operations unit. A group of insurgents in Baghlan province, north of the National capitol in Kabul, were scheduling guerilla attacks and suicide bombings at the direction of the vicious mujahidin Sheik Tayyib Pour Salman, who was the senior Taliban leader in the province. The man’s Amethyst team was tasked with infiltrating a compound just north of the provincial capital in Puli Kumri, and capturing the Sheik alive at any cost.
When Amethyst team roped outside the compound at 2 am, they found that they had been the victims of some bad intelligence, and were subjected immediately to a vicious barrage of fire from the ramparts at the top of the compound walls. The leader of the team of Green Berets, 1st Lt. Henry Younger was cut down, along with seven of the remaining nine team members. The man on the couch, as the senior ranking team member, had organized their defense, and still managed to complete the mission objective.
Seeing so many of his friends die in such a short period of time had caused the man to lose his grip on reality, and began suffering from severe panic attacks and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor had been a small consolation for his actions and the things he had witnessed in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
Prior to his initial qualification for the US Army Special Forces, he had been one of the earliest soldiers to deploy to Afghanistan with the 10th Mountain Infantry Division. While there, he had earned his first purple heart, and first bronze star.