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Undeserving
Date: 5/9/2024, Categories: Anal Author: Gordon_Brail, Source: LushStories
... everyone stops and meets this handsome man who captures her arm and heart this evening. Olivia is the real star tonight. With an addictive personality and tickling laugh, everyone wants to know who she is and if she’s single.Everyone. Vance should feel lucky to be with Olivia, and he does, but tonight just isn’t what he wanted their relationship to produce. If anything, Olivia is much more distinguished than Vance. A registered nurse and currently serving as head of the humanitarian coordination department over Vance and his team, she’s poured her life into public service. R.N. Fields should be up here, not Vance. --- Five days into the rescue effort, better weather turned for the worse. Heavy winds rushed in from behind the storm. For a moment, everyone thought the meteorologists would be wrong and the storm would sweep north across the Pacific, but they were wrong. With the wind came more rain and flooding, landslides, and disappearing roads. The Washington National Guardsmen hovered their Blackhawk over shallow, rushing waters as Vance and the guys loaded up survivors. There were already more people in the bird than the pilot called for, but Vance jumped back into the water anyways, yelling that he could fit more people into the packed aircraft. The blades threw water into the rain, Vance swimming hard across the current. He’s been through this drill before. Back then, however, he ran across the desert instead of swimming in muddy waters, carrying ...
... body armor and a rifle instead of children. --- “…So make no mistake about it, folks,” the host comments, a serious tone falling over the audience. “It’s an honor to stand up here and announce the Christopher Banks Award for Distinguished Public Service to one of our very good friends from the United States.” Vance takes a long breath through the nose, slowly letting it out as he can’t look to the speaker or Olivia who’s currently beaming with the other members. “…a highly decorated, prior service member of the United States armed forces, he’s someone who saved countless lives while nearly losing his own in the name of humanitarian service. Atrue leader andtrue friend to this world…Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Vance Torrent…” Vance does what he should, approaching the speaker with a smile and firm handshake. There’s an elegant award presented to Vance and he comments on its importance. He sticks to his memorized speech, making the moment more about them than him. He does everything right. He thanks the crowd and a thunderous applause erupts, Olivia’s voice heard above the noise. --- The turning of helicopter blades is relentless. Vance is literally exhausted, but he forces himself to keep swimming. Every muscle in his body aches when he arrives at the two survivors clinging to life. “Swim!” he shouts, holding onto them. “Swim!” They don’t know what Vance said, but they know what to do. The rushing water is intense. They swim and struggle, gasp and ...