Secret
Maneuvers – Released – June 14, 2013
Re-released
with new cover on September 23, 2013
Available to purchase at:
Kobo: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-US/ebook/secret-maneuvers-1
Some mistakes from the past haunt us
forever… unless fate steps in with a second chance.
One ‘Dear John’ letter haunted Bobby Baker’s
every living moment. It was the letter he’d stupidly written to his high school
sweetheart, Belle, right after he had left to join the Army. The letter in
which he’d told her that he wasn’t so sure they were ready for forever yet.
Before he could let her know that the letter, and his second thoughts, were
nothing more than a mistake, she disappeared from the small Georgia town they
had both been raised in.
Fifteen years after the letter, Belle
unknowingly walked back into Bobby’s life when her job as an ATF Agent forced
her to work with a group of men secretly headed by the CIA to help her track
down whoever was involved in funneling black market weapons to a drug cartel in
Mexico.
Bobby planned to use this mission to try to
soothe Belle’s hurt feelings while proving to her that their love was meant to
be forever. He would use every dirty trick he’d learned since he had joined the
Army to maneuver her back into his life for the long haul. Belle was not making
it easy, though, as she continued to keep him at arm’s length in the hopes that
mistakes of her own would never come to light.
Heading back to
the small town of Poteet, the truck was silent. When they were halfway home,
Declan yawned loudly.
“Somebody say
something before I fall asleep back here.”
“You’re an ass.
There, something’s been said,” Bobby muttered.
I laughed as
Declan attempted to smack the back of Bobby’s head in retaliation. As I
maneuvered my massive truck in and out of traffic, Declan leaned forward until
he was practically sitting in the middle of Bobby and me in the front seat.
“Come on,
Annabelle. Entertain me here. Better yet, tell me another story for my
blackmail book.”
Declan quickly
ducked backwards in his seat when Bobby tried to hit him.
“I don’t know
if that’s a good idea.”
“Come on,
woman! I’m bored as shit back here.”
Bobby was
studiously ignoring both of us by looking out of his passenger side window.
What could it hurt? It wasn’t as if Bobby could hate me anymore than he already
did. Maybe hearing some of the good times would remind him that it hadn’t
always been bad between us. I could also use all the help I could get when it
came to hopefully having a working relationship with the father of my only
child.
“Ok, Declan,
you’ll appreciate this one. See when Bobby joined our high school football team
he had to go through an initiation, a hazing of sorts. What small town would be
complete if they didn’t continue crazy rituals that would give all the gossipy,
old, married ladies something to talk about all year long? So, anyways, all the
seniors wrote embarrassing tasks to be completed, then threw them in a hat to
be drawn out by the freshman.
“Bobby here was
lucky enough to have to go through our local grocery store in nothing except a
hot pink thong. They made him go through the checkout counter, buy a box of
condoms and he couldn’t leave until he sang the school song at the register.
All the while, the poor check out girl, who was sixteen, stood there staring at
him with a river of drool coming out of the side of her mouth because, even at
fifteen, Bobby looked and was built like a Chippendale stripper.”
Declan was
roaring with laughter in the back seat. Out of the corner of my eye I saw
Bobby’s cheeks turn pink as he blushed.
“But don’t feel
too bad for Bobby. My best friend Teagan had it much worse. You see she was the
team’s punter and the only girl in the whole state of Georgia on a high school
football team. Her initiation task was to streak through the school grounds
while school was being dismissed. None of the guys thought she would do it and
that it would be the quickest way to get a girl off of their championship
winning team, but they underestimated Teagan; like most people did. The entire
school got to see her naked itty bits and I drove the getaway car she dove in
when she was done streaking around the school. Lord, she couldn’t get any of
the guys at school to stop hitting on her after that, no matter how many times
she kicked them in the nuts.”
Declan was
laughing so hard that tears rolled down his cheeks and he struggled to breathe.
He promised through the entire tirade to spread that story to everyone they
knew between his choking gasps for breath.
I glanced over
to see Bobby watching me. “What?”
Shaking his head he
mumbled, “For a minute there, I got a glimpse of the girl I used to know. Too
bad that girl grew up into a deceitful woman without a heart.”
I am the mother of two little boys, married to the love of my life, and living in one of the smallest towns in Minnesota. When I’m not chasing or cleaning up after my boys (yes, all three), I can be found writing or snuggled up with my kindle, a glass of wine, and spending time with my fictional friends and family.
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