CHAPTER 72

ANNA'S DILEMMA

Dianna watched as Jason talked to the guys from Alpha and Romeo. Romeo Team arrived just a week ago to help plan the op that would take down, hopefully, Al-Hazred Junior. The son of a bitch that shot Dianna and escaped unharmed from Camp Larkin after killing a couple of soldiers himself.

Jason seemed happy. On the outside. She knew very well that he was a mess on the inside. But if she was being honest, so was she.

She breathed in, she wasn't sure how he'd take her news.

"Hi" Dianna greeted Jason and the guys with him. They were drinking beers standing around the fire pit, but it wasn't even night yet. The sun was setting and they were already pretty joyful.

"Heey. Dianna" Jason greeted her by raising the bottle of beer, then he turned to the guys. "This is Dianna, she's an interrogator. The best there is, of course, since she's with Bravo" he proudly stated, and the guys nodded and greeted her, amused.

"Well, maybe she's in the mood for working with the true Alpha males?" Kane, the team leader of Alpha Team raised his eyebrows at her.

"Nope. Not a chance, man. First, because she knows that the real alphas are in Bravo" Jason raised his eyebrows too, while Dianna smiled, amused. "And second" he slowly wrapped his arm and hand around her lower back and brought her closer to him, "the lady is already taken".

"Ohhh, okay. Alright. Well, that's just mean, Hayes. You get to have your girl with you" Peter, the team leader of Romeo, chuckled.

"Well, in my case, I'm not sure I would want my lady with me. I mean, I need to look likeI'mthe boss in front of my teammates" Kane raised his eyebrows at Jason and Dianna.

Dianna and Jason chuckled, amused. They both knew that Dianna wasn't exactly bossy, but if she wanted something, he'd definitely do it. It happened before, after all. Fortunately for Jason, Dianna wasn't exactly into power games to see who was the boss in their relationship.

"Hey, can I talk to you for a sec? It's quick, but kinda urgent" she explained to Jason. He frowned, but quickly nodded and walked with her to the corner of the patio.

"Langley called" Dianna bluntly said, a little uncomfortable. Jason nodded, still frowning. "Apparently, they need myexpertisewith Jessica's interrogation" she said, not trying to hide her bitterness.

"Isn't she imprisoned at the Naval Base in Guam?" Jason asked, squirming.

"She is" Dianna exhaled.

"Okay... and didn't you tell me you're not allowed to be her interrogator, since you were one of her victims?"

"That's right. But apparently, Jessica is beingverycooperative. So much that they need someone to find out if she's telling the truth. Because if she is, she may be too precious for the U.S. to be locked in a prison cell for the rest of her life" Dianna raised an eyebrow, annoyed.

Jason opened his mouth.

"You mean... they might use her as an asset?" he was in disbelief.

"U-hum. I bet she claims she didn't want me, Davis and Blackburn to be captured, too" Dianna grumbled.

"You know what, I actually believe that" Jason said, serious. Dianna stared at him. "She was feeling very guilty, Dianna. She was crying and not making much sense when we arrived at the Command Center in Venezuela. I really think that the deal was that they would knock you guys out and just take the intel. Then the Venezuelans got greedy" he stated.

Dianna looked down, thinking for a second.

"She shot Blackburn, Jason" Dianna explained. "The shot that hit him came from behind me. The Venezuelans were coming in from the other side. She shot Blackburn then knocked me out. And she knocked out Davis too, probably even before us.

Jason swallowed.

"Can you prove it? Did Blackburn see anything?"

"I asked him, he said that he just felt the shot and fell, then he was lying on the floor, looking at the ceiling. He doesn't know where it came from. And I didn't actually see her, but someone knocked me out like a second after shooting at him, I imagine that with the same gun, so it had to be her. Besides, I doubt she's such a great shooter. I don't think she cared about Blackburn and killing him or not".

Jason nodded.

"Then you have to go to Guam, Dianna. To tell them that, and see right through her. She must be lying, and wants to be free, probably they'll grant her monitored freedom, or part-time imprisonment, which is still a lot more than she deserves".

"I know. But I'd have to go tomorrow, Jason" she explained, serious. Jason squirmed, glancing sideways. "And I know you've been struggling with dealing with your job lately".

"Hey, no. Come on" he slightly smiles. "I'm not struggling. I'm just thinking about some things" he explained, partially lying.

"I know you're afraid that nothing you did served a purpose. And I can only imagine the guilt you must be feeling for not being around your kids back then. Or even now" she said, affectionate.

Jason exhaled, looking down again.

"I have that sometimes... you know, reminders of moments I missed with my family. I don't know. I think I'm just having them more lately, because of everything that happened during this deployment. But it's still the same as it always was" he explained, but she looked suspicious at him. "But hey, we're almost over with this deployment, soon we'll have the op to capture or kill Junior. Blackburn thinks we'll be sent home right after that, because of the draw down and everything" he turned to her, smirking.

"That's what I'm afraid of. This op. I can only go if I'm sure you're not gonna risk it all to get Junior" she said, very serious.

"I won't, Dianna" he said, slightly smiling and caressing her cheek with his thumb. It's night now, but Dianna could see he was lying to her, even in the dark.

"Swear to me, then" she pleaded. His smile faded.

"Swear what, that I won't do my job properly? I can't do that, Dianna. I will do everything in my power to get that terrorist" he said, annoyed.

"No. I want you to swear that you won't act emotional and put personal revenge over the mission" she calmly said.

Jason hesitated for a second.

"Yeah. I swear, ok?" he said, annoyed, but he meant it. Unwillingly.

"Good. I'll go pack mybag, then, I'm leaving tomorrow morning. You can come when you're done drinking with the guys" Dianna said, smiling at Jason, and walked away.

Jason watched Dianna leave, then glanced at Kane, Peter, and at the Bravo guys. Then looked back at Dianna.

He could drink and talk to the guys some other time.

Easy choice.

"Jason, if you're going to just throw my clothes in my bag, I prefer if you come back later, ok?" Dianna told him, annoyed. "I told you that I'd pack first and that you could stay drinking with the guys" she explained, for the second time.

"It goes faster this way" he casually explained, a little playful. Grabbing a bunch of her panties with his hands and shoving them on the side of the bag.

"You know what. Why don't you go to the food trucks and bring us some food and beverages, then? Hum?" she suggested, to get rid of him. Jason pouted. "This way we won't have to leave the cabin until tomorrow" she seductively said, caressing his chest with her hand.

"Sure" he grinned at her and walked to the door. "What do you want?"

"I couple of beef tacos, some chocolate. A couple of cans of soda would be nice, too" she said, smiling relieved. She could pack in peace while he went out.

"Going" he said and shut the door behind him.

Fifteen minutes later, Jason was already back with food for both of them, and with a couple of beers for himself, besides her sodas. He patiently waited until Dianna put almost everything inside her bag, only leaving out her clothes for the next day and a few toiletries.

"You know what's funny? You never bring perfume anywhere. I mean, I know it's Afghanistan, but I never saw which perfumeyou wear" he pouted while checking her bag.

"I don't use any. I'm allergic" she explained, opening one of the cans of soda.

Jason looked from the bag to her, suspicious.

"Body lotion?" he walked slowly to Dianna, with his eyebrows raised.

"Only unscented ones. My deodorant has some perfume, though. But just a light one, because my skin is really sensitive" she explained, putting the can on the desk. Jason's expression was turning serious and dangerous.

"So you're saying" he slowly moved his face to her neck, moving her hair away from her shoulder, "that this is just soap and shampoo?" he sniffed her neck, and Dianna felt shivers.

"My soap can't be too scented either" she said, a little playful. She always had sensible skin, but it got worse during the last decade. She could use more perfume back then, not anymore nowadays.

Jason softly kissed her neck, slowly unbuttoning her shirt.

"Is that so" he murmured after a few seconds, then distanced his face from her, to look into her eyes. Dianna was still feeling goosebumps with his kisses and breaths close to her ear. And he was talking with a very husky voice, too.

Jason thought that it was kind of sad, because it meant that he could never find her scent anywhere in perfumes. Only in her skin.

"It's true" she quietly said, smiling.

Jason looked from her eyes to her lips and Dianna's smile faded. He held her face with his hand and breathed in, then slowly kissed her lips, bringing her closer to him while holding her hip with his other hand.

They slowly undressed each other, they knew they'd see each other in a couple of weeks at most, but Dianna was very concerned about this op. And Jason was concerned about Dianna too, because she'd have to look into Jessica's eyes, and he hoped that she would be strong enough to not do something stupid.

But they would miss each other, for sure.

So as soon as they got rid of each other's clothes, Jason lifted her from her thighs and laid Dianna in the middle of the bed, then slowly savored her body, breathing hard while tasting her skin. Registering her scent, because it was only hers.

He moved his fingers to her core and made her come just how she liked, which was, while she attentively looked at his face. He knew he had hungry eyes and Dianna's cheeks were blushed, and she tenderly kissed his cheeks and face, and he did the same.

And when Jason finally pushed inside of her, they were both so aroused that they moaned in unison, while Dianna wrapped her legs around his hips and moved her hands to his hair. Jason almost smothered her with his weight, gluing his skin on hers, and started to thrust deeply into her, but faster than he initially intended to. He was anxious, and so was Dianna.

"I love this" Dianna blurted, exhaling. She was thinking about how much she loved spending time with Jason, and making love with him. She always made love with him, it was never just sex.

Jason's heart beat faster and he cutely smiled at her, breathing hard. He felt Dianna gently disheveling his hair and pressing her fingers on his biceps. She was all over him.

"Me too" he huskily said, and felt Dianna slightly shiver and twitch around his erection. He loved it and thrust faster. "So much" he murmured on her lips.

"Does it ever stop?" she said, softly kissing his lips. Jason looked at her eyes, a little confused. "The line is from a tv show. Well, a book, actually" she explained, but Jason was still confused. "Does it ever stop? The wanting you" she said, exhaling.

Jason swallowed, slightly nodding. He understood perfectly.

"What's the answer?" he softly kissed her lips and moved faster, caressing her thigh.

"You tell me" she stated, smirking.

Jason licked his lips, serious.

"What was the question again?" he asked, playful.

Dianna chuckled, and so did he.

"I guess it doesn't" Jason finally admitted, with a crooked smile.

Dianna smiled and kissed Jason with passion, slightly pressing her feet on his lower back, so he reached deeper inside. They felt their bodies burning and pulsating together, and soon they couldn't continue kissing and just kept their mouths close to each other, moaning on each other's lips.

"Don't stop, Jason. Please" Dianna pleaded, she felt like she was about to explode, of happiness and desire.

"I won't. Never, Dianna. I'll fuck you until you ask me to stop" Jason felt Bravo One appearing, and thrust harder, he was desperate, just waiting for Dianna, so he could end his agony too.

"Yes. Oh my" Dianna was blinking and pulling Jason's hair, desperate. He thrust harder, desperate too, and Dianna finally came, muffling her cry on Jason's shoulder. Jason immediately came too, barely able to bury his face on her hair to muffle his loud grunt.

"Ah. God" he whined, moving his pelvis to bury his erection even deeper while he emptied himself inside of Dianna. And she kept him there, locking her feet on his back, wrapping Jason everywhere, inside and out.

Dianna was slightly shivering, and Jason was trying to catch his breath, softly kissing her neck and cheek.

After an entire minute, Jason finally rolled to lie next to Dianna in bed, and they pulled the cover over her body and his leg.

"Do you wanna eat now or later?" Jason casually asked Dianna, glancing at her.

"In a couple of minutes" she shyly said, she needed to recover for a few moments. But so did he.

Jason smirked and nodded, also catching his breath. He wasn't done with her, for sure. But it would be good to eat before the next round. For the energy.

Dianna was laid on her stomach on the bed, lazily letting some crumbles of the chocolate bar fall on Jason's chest and stomach. Jason body was so hot that after leaving the crumbles on his skin for half a minute, they already got kind of melted. Then she slowly gathered the crumbles from his skin. With her tongue.

"You know, this chocolate isn't bad. At all" she mumbled, not looking at his face.

Jason was kind of paralyzed, they were both eating the tacos on the desk but then Dianna mentioned she wanted to lay on the bed while having her chocolate, she felt lazy. And now Jason was looking down while she licked the chocolate off him. He was obviously very turned on. And suddenly a little sticky, too.

"I, huh, imagine. I'd like to have a taste, too" he playfully said, licking his lips while Dianna let some crumbles fall again, for the second time.

"Hope we don't have cockroaches here tonight because of this. I hate them" she murmured, finally looking at Jason's face. He was very serious.

"You better clean it properly, then" he huskily said, not taking his eyes off her. Still serious.

Dianna stared at him.

"You'll have a shower after this, I hope. I meant if the crumbles fall on the bed" she raised her eyebrows.

"I know" he sighed, she was breaking the mood. "I'm just saying" he gestured with his hand for her to continue her work.

Dianna smirked at him, then put the chocolate on the bedside table.

"I'd like to, huh, lick some too" Jason casually mentioned, still not moving, just raising his finger, like a polite student. There were a couple of crumbles on his stomach, and he pointed at them so she wouldn't forget to clean those too.

"In a sec" she said, licking those two crumbles too. Then tracing kisses on his inguinal creases, which made Jason shudder. "How much does an Airstream cost?" she asked, curious, glancing at Jason while she licked and kissed his lower stomach and creases.

"You mean… a used one? Or a new one? And there are many models" he explained, watching her attentively.

"The model you want" she explained, and he nodded, trying to disguise his hungry stare and focus on the conversation.

"Huh, I'm not sure. My dream model would be one that is about 28 feet. New ones start at a hundred grand, a hundred and twenty" he said, and Dianna stopped kissing him and raised her head to look at him. But kept caressing his creases with her fingers, delicately.

"Wow. That's… well, I don't know, it's expensive, but definitely a lot less expensive than a medium size house in VA Beach" she realized, pensive.

"Yeah, I know" he chuckled, nodding.

"But is it doable? Like, could you afford one now, or soon? Or is it a dream for, like, a few years into the future?" she asked, truly interested.

Jason pouted, thinking.

"It depends. Maybe if I took a loan for part of it, and didn't have my rent to pay, maybe I could afford it. Yeah" he smirked, nodding.

"Even while paying for Emma's college and Mikey's boarding school?" she raised her eyebrows.

Jason pouted again.

"If Emma graduated and got a job, it would be a lot easier" he playfully admitted, and immediately swallowed, because Dianna was chuckling but also delicately lowering his trunks. He immediately lifted his hips so she could take off his underwear.

"It's just that I was thinking, it must be really nice to go on road trips and park right on a beach" she said, excited, while gently and slowly rubbing Jason's member with her hand until it was completely hard. Jason was excited too, but for different reasons than hers.

He blinked, registering her words and now also feeling excited about that, too.

"Yeah. There are so many beaches close by, with perfect places to spend a weekend, or a few more days" he was very excited now, and gesticulating a lot.

"Oh, but to be honest, I love, like, the mountains. Or places with colder weather" she said, then slid closer to Jason until her breasts were on his thighs and her face was very close to his erection, now completely hard. Jason swallowed, barely listening to her. And not blinking. "Do you think an Airstream can be carried on these roads, uphill, to mountains? Well, maybe not mountains" she casually asked, truly curious, and then gently kissed the tip of his erection.

Jason was already breathing hard, anxious to feel Dianna's delicious lips on his cock, so he was kind of deaf.

"Jason?" she stopped kissing and licking the tip and looked at him, waiting.

"Yeah?" he glanced at her face, lost.

"Can an Airstream go up a mountain? Or a hill. Or is it too heavy?"

Jason licked his lips and blinked, focusing on the question. Then he thought for a couple of seconds.

"Yes. I mean, usually it can, with a truck like mine. Yes" he formally answered her question.

And was rewarded with an affectionate smile from Dianna that melted him. Jason cutely smiled back at her and his cuteness was rewarded again, with Dianna licking his erection from base to tip, then gently sucking the tip. He shuddered and gasped.

"Good to know" she affectionately said, smiling, and Jason smiled again. This time it was a goofy smile.

But his expression changed when Dianna slowly continued her great work, building up his orgasm with a lot of kissing, licking and sucking, until Jason was squirming on the bed and shutting his eyes.

"This is... don't stop, Dianna. For the love of God" he dramatically said, exhaling.

Jason looked down and saw Dianna trying to hold back a smile, amused, and she was casually laying on his thigh, caressing it too, and he could feel her breasts squeezed against his thigh too. And all of that, of course, while taking great care of his cock. It was very, very pink, and Jason tried his best to focus and not raise his hips to thrust into Dianna's mouth, because he was loving every second of it and especially the fact that Dianna didn't seem to have any hurry.

But he was in complete agony by now. A great one, of course, but he just couldn't shut up.

"I fucking love you, Dianna. Ohmygod. Please, God" he looked up at the ceiling, firmly holding the cover. He felt Dianna wrapping her mouth around a huge part of his erection, which was a lot, then sucking him extra hard. "Oh fuck" he said with a high pitched voice, quickly looking down at her face. Dianna was still gently caressing his thigh and inguinal crease, and stretched on the bed and on his thigh, only wearing her panties. "Fuck" he mumbled, breathing hard, then he just felt her sucking him hard again, and this time he throbbed, exploded, and emptied himself inside her mouth. He cried out, trying to not be too loud, and quickly looked down at Dianna while she was swallowing, with her eyes closed, but she immediately opened them and looked at Jason with a crooked smile.

"Jesus. Fuck" he couldn't stop swearing and calling God and Jesus. It wasn't the holiest combination, especially while receiving a blowjob.

"You okay there?" Dianna softly chuckled, still caressing his thigh and crease with her hand. His face was very red.

Jason breathed hard a few times, staring at her.

"Just… great" he exhaled. As if Dianna needed to ask.

Dianna moved on the bed to lie next to Jason while he recovered, then grazed her fingers on his chest and stomach, still a little sticky from the chocolate crumbles.

She was praying that he would make it out of the op alive and unharmed. And preferably, with his mind also in peace.

But Dianna was also facing a dilemma herself. She was already feeling terrible, uneasy, and scared, because of all that happened to her while she worked in DEVGRU. And now it seemed like the Agency wasn't even willing to protect her from harm, to punish those who hurt her. And almost killed Nick too, also a CIA agent.

She was feeling like a pawn lately, and she wasn't sure for how long she wanted to continue feeling like that. She would never admit to Jason, but she shared the same feeling as he did; she felt like she gave up so much of her personal life and in the end, maybe it didn't even make that much of a difference. Maybe another person could have done her job, and without facing as much danger as she did.

Dianna got so involved in capturing the terrorists that she risked her life over and over, lost years of her life, in fact. She was single until recently, was still unmarried, no kids, didn't even own a house, barely had time to see her family and friends.

The CIA and DEVGRU were costing her a lot. And with this news about Jessica, she wondered how much they even appreciated her work and had her back.

She was feeling angry and forsaken, and lately she only trusted Bravo Team and her family.

Anna was facing a dilemma, and Dianna didn't know what advise to give her.

Unlike what happened years ago, she wasn't sure if therapy or new hobbies were the answer to her questions.

Maybe Anna needed to take a step back to find peace and joy in her life again.

.