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“I can’t believe this girl!”
“Woman,” Patty snarled at him.
Mick just grinned as all of the other women around the table joined in on her side. He was in too good a mood to care. Someone had to keep Patty O’Donoghue in her place and it might as well be him. She’d been dancing in her seat for practically the whole flight back to Elmendorf-Richardson. Despite her singing the Oompa Loompa song, off-key, for most of that trip, he couldn’t begrudge her a moment of it. Though he couldn’t believe she knew all the words from both Willy Wonka movies, at least the Oompa Loompa parts.
Screw the mess hall. To celebrate, Mick had dragged them all out to the best pizza in Anchorage, or anywhere in his opinion. Moose’s Tooth Pub and Pizzeria had been a fixture in his life. They opened when he was e
