Jumping the Bull Page 9
“Because he’s a recruit…who…needs to?”
“Instructor Falk, it was my understanding that Mr. Beaufort already completed the course within the allotted time.”
“What? When?”
Suddenly Oliver was beside Ben, their fingers intertwining. “On September twenty-fourth,” he interjected.
“September—” Falk’s face turned red. “No. No. That wasn’t completing the course. That was—was vandalism!”
When he’d run through the course, destroying it. It had taken less than two minutes. Some of the heaviness on Ben’s shoulders started to lift.
Director Cooper arched a brow. “We constantly ask our students to think outside the box. To come up with new and creative solutions to a problem. This is how we prepare them for the ever-changing environment of life as a FUC agent. Mr. Beaufort took that lesson to heart. After one week. Some students never learn how to apply that sort of creative problem solving. As unconventional as his solution might have been, it was effective. Benjamin Beaufort completed the course on September twenty-fourth with a time of one minute and forty-eight seconds.”
“Director,” Falk whined.
Director Cooper turned to Ben. “Congratulations, Mr. Beaufort. And welcome to FUC.”
She held out her hand to shake his, but suddenly Ben’s arms were full of excited whooping crane. Ben gave the director a rueful glance over Oliver’s shoulder, and she returned it with a smirk. “We’ll chat later,” she mouthed.
“You passed!” Oliver shouted, as a cheer rose up from the crowd watching the spectacle. “Baby, you passed! I’m so proud of you.”
Didi bumped his shoulder. “Way to go, bro.”
Ben dipped his face into Oliver’s shoulder and breathed in the sugary scent of his love, his partner, his mate. He’d done it—started again, found a new life, a new calling. The future stretched before him…and it was everything he never knew he wanted.
The End
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Jenn Burke has loved out-of-this-world romance since she first read about heroes and heroines kicking butt and falling in love as a preteen. Now that she’s an author, she couldn’t be happier to bring adventure, romance, and sexy times to her readers.
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She’s been called a pocket-sized and puntastic Canadian on social media, and she’ll happily own that label. Jenn lives just outside of Ottawa, Ontario, with her husband and two kids, plus two dogs named after video game characters…because her geekiness knows no bounds.