[ What's the saying? About the number of soldiers who wash out before they reach their fullest potential? Greer has enough military connections in her family, or in friends of family, to know that not everyone ends up on a direct track to becoming part of the President's personal security detail.
But then again, Riley was always the type to be more modest about his exploits, regardless of whether he succeeded at being the exception to the overall rule. ]
Fine. [ An echo of his words, she thinks, is certainly safer. ] Clean bill of health, and all that.
[ If he's been paying any attention to the gossip rags lately, though, he'll have seen the headlines — about her breaking off her engagement to Sheamus, with all of the invented reasons splashed across glossy magazine pages. Some of them are a little closer to the truth than she'd like to admit. ]
A summer abroad beats sky-high temperatures in the DMV. [ She tries to make it sound casual — like it was her decision to retreat from public life in Washington for a few months, rather than more of a strategy to lay low while the worst of it dies down. ]
no subject
[ What's the saying? About the number of soldiers who wash out before they reach their fullest potential? Greer has enough military connections in her family, or in friends of family, to know that not everyone ends up on a direct track to becoming part of the President's personal security detail.
But then again, Riley was always the type to be more modest about his exploits, regardless of whether he succeeded at being the exception to the overall rule. ]
Fine. [ An echo of his words, she thinks, is certainly safer. ] Clean bill of health, and all that.
[ If he's been paying any attention to the gossip rags lately, though, he'll have seen the headlines — about her breaking off her engagement to Sheamus, with all of the invented reasons splashed across glossy magazine pages. Some of them are a little closer to the truth than she'd like to admit. ]
A summer abroad beats sky-high temperatures in the DMV. [ She tries to make it sound casual — like it was her decision to retreat from public life in Washington for a few months, rather than more of a strategy to lay low while the worst of it dies down. ]
Let me guess: you're working.