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to have by your side. Jack was glad his mate was enjoying a moment’s down time. Armstrong, the blond god, the men called him due to his immaculate appearance, was his bravest, most loyal man. He hoped the women would see the ceremony tonight was necessary. Every man had to be kept motivated.
    The steward placed fish and tinned vegetables in front of him. Hungry, he picked up his knife and fork and began to eat. There was plenty of fish in Balmoral Beach waters and his navy divers were skilled at spearing them, which meant starvation wouldn’t be a problem as they had access to the sea. The braindeads had trouble walking on the uneven, rocky shoreline at the bottom of the base. Even better, they couldn’t swim.
    â€˜Eat,’ he said, turning to Ruth.
    She picked up a knife, clenching it like a weapon and turned to him, her eyes glittering.
    â€˜Don’t make a fool of yourself,’ he said, his voice low. ‘You want to take out your frustration on me privately? Hit me? Kick me?’ He shrugged his shoulders. ‘I don’t care. I know this is a big change for you, but you play nice in front of my men.’
    â€˜Or what?’
    â€˜Seriously? You want to find out what’s it’s like to be disciplined in front of a room full of war-seasoned men? Did you enjoy being restrained that much?’ He watched as her cheeks flared.
    Ruth picked up her fork, speared a piece of broccoli and put it into her mouth chewing mechanically.
    â€˜Good. Eat up. You’re going to have to learn not to waste food. The base has its own generators and fuel to last us a year. Water too. But we have to grow our own crops to survive. I plan to keep everything as sane and routine inside the base as I can.’
    â€˜You call what you did to me sane?’
    â€˜You could have cooperated like your friends.’ He ate faster than he should, wishing the helping were bigger, because he’d barely had time to eat all day.
    â€˜I hated you touching me.’
    There was something stark in her voice that made him wince. ‘You should have done as I asked, then I wouldn’t have had to.’
    She cut off a tiny piece of fish and raised it to her lips, stopping before she ate it. ‘Promise me, you won’t touch me again.’
    A single, hot redhead living on a navy base with a hundred adrenaline-charged men in the prime of their lives, and she didn’t want to be touched? The men would line up to lick her anywhere she wanted just to get a taste of her. He grinned at the thought. Some people took a while to get a grip on how things had changed. ‘Binding a woman is usually not my thing but you were very sexy restrained like that.’ Shit he was getting a hard-on just thinking about it. He couldn’t get the image of her out of his mind. Her pussy had been glistening, ready for his cock to plunge into her. ‘I’d rather you invited me for a replay.’
    She didn’t smile back. Her eyes flashed fire. ‘Let me get this into your thick, navy man head. You will never be invited. You are a disgusting person. You need to promise me, you’ll keep the hell away.’
    â€˜I can’t promise that. You don’t take orders well. I don’t know what damn fool thing you’re going to do. For an educated woman you’re taking a long time to grasp the urgency of what is going on here and the rules you need to adhere to.’ Jack noticed the silence around them. He guessed his conversation was a whole lot more interesting.
    Ruth slammed down her fork. ‘Don’t make me the crazy one in this. You’re the one gunning down everyone.’
    Jack slid his utensils together to signal to the steward he’d finished, then he took a long sip of beer. He noticed the whole of his table was looking in their direction. ‘Let me make something clear to you. I’m not the bad guy here. You and your friends are alive because of me. You inefficiently