sometimes when he pulls me in for a sweet, gentle hug, i feel his strong chest against mine and i literally have to bite my tongue to keep myself from whimpering because i just wanna feel him restraining me with his body, either with his weight on top of me in bed or with his strength pushing me against the wall…
Summary: You’re a radio transmission specialist with the US Army and assigned to provide support to Edward Jacoby in the hunt for Escobar. You spend most of your time trying to bring the mobile unit’s equipment up to date. After spending many of your days in close quarters with Lieutenant Martinez, he decides you and his father should spend more time together and sets out to make sure that it happens. After a couple awkward interactions, you think the younger Martinez might be on to something.
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall. - Jodi Picoult
You came from a large and loud Italian family that took up residence in San Francisco back when the roads had still been dirt and there wasn’t a trolley car in sight. Your great-great grandfather and his brothers had been fishermen who worked the boats while their wives worked the fish markets. The next generation wanted to join the police force as the city was starting to grow in population and crime. The generation after that continued in the steps of police work but also found ways to pay for college tuition and soon the family had accountants, teachers, and even a couple lawyers to add to their ranks.
By the time you had come around, those options were still mostly for the men of the family. So when you said you wanted to go to college, you earned a couple scoffing laughs and suggested majors like home economics and library science. When you said you wanted to go for an engineering degree in radio transmissions and communications, you earned outright ridicule. Your parents thought you had come to your senses when you accepted Nico’s marriage proposal, that you would give up your machines and tools, and finally settle down like a good woman.
That there was still hope for you to be a good wife.
