Tate pov
He had to listen to Smitty b***h all the way back to base. They had to return back that night as they still hadn’t been fully debriefed. Technically the two of them were AWOL, but his CO was pretty chill which was shocking given it was the military.
Smitty was bitching as he was hoping to get on Cunningham’s good side, but that clearly didn’t happen. Tate listened to him mumble the entire way back to base. Tate didn’t understand why Smitty wanted to be on the billionaire’s good side in the first place as Smitty was a lifer. He was in his mid thirty’s and had been in the army since he turned eighteen just like him.
What Willow said to him right before they left he hadn’t been able to get out of his head.
Flashback
Willow pulled him into her room.
“Damn Steele, if I knew you
