Invaluable
by Alana Albertson
by Alana Albertson
Publication Date: Spring 2015
Genres: Contemporary, Romance,
I’ll
be honest with you—I'm no saint. Sure, when I turned down my 3.6
million dollar football contract to join the SEAL Teams, the media had a
field day. Selfless, patriotic, an American hero. But the God's honest
truth was that I was bored with that world, the playboy lifestyle, the
ass kissing, the lack of integrity. There’s even a line in one of our
cadences: “When I go to heaven St. Peter he will say ‘Did you earn your
living? Did you earn your pay?’ My reply was with a little bit of
thunder ‘I earned my living killing down under.’” You've read the
tabloids—I'm infallible, invincible, invaluable. But it wasn't that
deep—I just wanted some action.
A
one night stand with a San Diego coed, no promise for tomorrow. I
picked her out of a steamy nightclub—sexy blonde hair, curvy hips, nice
ass. After she rode me all night, I took in the ocean view from my
condo, thankful for the blissful moments she gave me to get me through
my long deployment—I savored the warm touch of a woman, the scent of her
perfume and the sound of her laughter.
As
fate would have it, I crossed paths with Miss San Diego again, halfway
across the world in Afghanistan. Turns out she was a NFL Cheerleader
sent on a USO tour to entertain my Team. Her convoy was ambushed, and
insurgents held her hostage deep in the mountains. I'd gazed into her
beautiful blue eyes and given her my word that she'd be safe. And my
word is my bond.
I'll never win MVP, never get the Super Bowl ring, but some heroes don't play games.
About Alana Albertson
Alana
Albertson is the former President of both Romance Writers of Americas’s
Young Adult and Chick Lit chapters and the founder of Academe
Advantage, a college admissions & test preparation company. Alana
Albertson holds a Masters of Education from Harvard University and a
Bachelor of Arts in English from Stanford University. A recovering
professional ballroom dancer, Alana currently writes contemporary
romance and young adult fiction. She lives in San Diego, California,
with her husband, two young sons, and four dogs. When she’s not spending
her time needlepointing, dancing, or saving dogs from high kill
shelters through Pugs N Roses, the rescue she founded, she can be found
watching episodes of House Hunters, Homeland, or Dallas Cowboys
Cheerleaders: Making the Team.
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