I wasn't sure where everything went wrong. But the military was waiting for them at the beach and things went south pretty quickly. "Team leader is being arrested." I hear Max say over the radio.
"Shit!" I yell out, causing Rachel to jump.
"Permission to engage?" One of the Navy SEALs ask.
"Do not engage. I repeat, do not engage." Isaacs comes through next. "Get the cargo to base, get the fuck out of there."
HQ goes silent so I take the moment to talk to my team. "Just get yourselves back here. We'll sort this out then."
They're back as the sun is rising over the sea. Rachel and I are outside, neither of us having slept that night. "Cargo is safely on board."
"Copy that." Someone else says.
"Is there any news on team leader?" Buchanan asks. I wait with bated breath.
"We've been monitoring radio transmissions in Khartoum. Nothing new."
...
*Ari's POV*
Behind bars, again. I was pacing, hoping, praying for a miracle. Sammy was sitting on the bed in the cell, staring down at his bloodied hands. "We're gonna get out of here. It's gonna be ok." I heard a guard walk by outside. "Hey, hey, excuse me." But I'm ignored. "I need to talk to your commander." Still nothing. "Hey! Fucking asshole." I add under my breath when I'm ignored again.
"You're the asshole, Ari." Sammy finally speaks.
"What?"
"I told you to cancel tonight's operation, I told you. I told you it was too dangerous."
"You don't get to make that call."
"No, I don't get to make that call, only you get to make that call."
"Is there something you wanna say?"
"Once again you ignored what we were saying. And like I promised you, this time, someone got hurt."
"We don't know if that SEAL is dead."
"And what of Ilana if we don't make it out of here? Do you think that she'll survive losing everyone?" Sammy asks.
"Don't lecture me about Ilana. She's no longer your concern." I say.
"If that were true, why'd she fuck me before we left?" Sammy yells. I stand up straight.
"What?"
"If she's no longer my concern, why'd she fuck me before we left? Why'd she feel the need to?" I snapped, and lunged at him, punching him in the side of the head. He jumps back before charging me, punching me in the eye.
...
*Ilana's POV*
I had Jake go with me to meet with Colonel Madibbo and he promised me we would get this sorted. Him and his men escort us to the police station and we wait in the front for Ari and Sammy to be let out. They're both bloodied, and I make out bruises on both of their faces. "Who did this to you?" Colonel Madibbo asks them. He then turns to the guards and starts yelling at them.
"No, no, no, that's... It's not... they didn't... We did this. To each other." Ari explains. I let out a ragged breath and the look I leveled them both with made their eyes widen in slight fear.
"What do you mean?" Madibbo asks.
"We don't get along." Sammy explains, straight-faced. I turn my gaze to the ceiling to keep from losing it on them right there and I feel Jake place a hand on my arm to warn me from speaking out.
"You are crazy." Madibbo says as he laughs. "You are free to go." He tells them before we leave.
"Shukraan," I tell him before I follow them out.
We're on the way back to the resort. "I'm doing this now so you only need to be embarrassed in front of Jake." I start. "You are fucking stupid! Of all the unnecessary risks you have taken over the years, this is by far the stupidest. Did either of you stop and think what I would have done if anything happened to either of you? Did you even care if you did?" They remained silent, which was probably in their favor. "And then you beat the shit out of each other like we're on the fucking school yard! For fuck's sake!"
We pull up to the resort and Ethan is there waiting. "Fuck." I say under my breath. Ari nods in agreement before parking the truck and all of us get out.
"You, with me." Ethan demands, pointing at Ari. He doesn't look at me before following Ethan into he resort.
"Was he purposefully trying to avoid me or was that all in my head?" No one says anything and I let it go for now. There are bigger problems to deal with.
...
I found Ari in our room later on. "How'd it go with Ethan?" I ask carefully. He's in a mood.
"We're being shut down, sent home." He says, sitting down on the bed.
"I'm sorry Ari." I knew how much this mission meant to him.
"It's not your fault. I'm the one who took unnecessary risks last night. I'm the reason that SEAL is dead."
"He died?"
"Sammy asked Ethan before he left. He didn't even make it to the ship."
"We all knew what we were signing up for, the SEAL team as well. You can't put this on yourself."
I take his hand in mine and I watch as he inspects my face carefully. I gently bring my other hand up and gently touch the skin under his eye. It's swelled up a little and he still has blood on his face and in his hair.
"Come on," I tell him softly, pulling him towards our shower. He pulls my lips to his, kissing me softly. I melt into him and he pulls me flush against his chest. I step back, pulling his shirt over his head before I brought my lips back to his and my hands went to his belt. I unbuckle it and get his pants off of him, his boxers following until he's completely bare before me.
"You're wearing entirely too much clothing." He growls before ripping my shirt from me and shoving my pants down, my panties getting caught up with them and I join him in our nakedness. His lips are on mine again and I'm blindly trying to get the shower on, feeling around for the faucet before hitting it and turning it on, gasping as the cold water sprayed against my back.
He backs me up against the wall and grabs my legs, lifting me up and I wrap them around his hips. He slams into me and I hit my back against the shower wall, moaning loudly as he filled me to his hilt. He's relentless as he ploughs into me over and over, ripping orgasm after orgasm from my body until I'm nothing more than a fleshy mess, clinging to him like my wet hair clings to my shoulders. "Ari, please. I can't take much more of this." I practically beg.
"You like that baby girl? You want me to fill you?" I haven't seen this side of him before and I wasn't about to complain. Ari always had this alpha male presence and having it finally cross over into the bedroom made me gush over his cock again.
He slams into me one more time before I feel him twitch as he coats my walls, his breath hot on my neck. "I love you Ari." I say softly.
He pulls back to look at me, and I can't read the look on his face. He's silent for a moment before responding, "I love you too Ily."
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Fanfiction~Completed~Ilana Bodnar knew Ari Levinson was going to break her heart. They grew up together, in a small suburb outside of NYC, two of the few Jewish kids in their school. It was inevitable that they would end up together. But as soon as he turned...
