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Axle's PoV
We were running through the forest, bullets whipping past us as we did as explosions sounded in the distance. Although the operation had gone off the rails, our mission was still a success. Now we had to get to exfil before we were caught.
"Mav, you owe us f*****g beers if we manage to get out of this alive!"
Rowan shouted through the comms, breathing heavily as he led the group towards the helicopter waiting for us just outside this forest. Mav's laugh floated through, a classic response for him that had many of the men ready to pummel him probably. His easy-going personality made him the most likable in our unit, but in moments like this, when our lives were hanging in the balance, and he chose to make one joke or the other, they wanted to kill him.
Especially when he
