Quadruple Duty
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It was totally unbelievable, the ad I’d read. I looked down at it a third time, just to make sure.
~ WANTED: COMMUNITY GIRLFRIEND ~
Four (4) Army Specialists seek one very
amazing, very open-minded woman for
an exclusive relationship arrangement.
YOU are young, smart, sexy, incredible,
and ready to be pampered, spoiled, and
treated like an absolute princess.
WE are four strong warriors and best friends
ready to love, share, and protect you
on our sprawling lakehouse estate.
Get all the benefits of being a military wife…
without any of the heartache or loneliness!
NO DRAMA NO JEALOUSY
NO CRAZINESS NO BULLSHIT
Just imagine it: four loving partners — powerful and passionate —
sharing you equally, mind, body, and soul.
LOOKING FOR WIFE MATERIAL - LONG TERM ONLY
ALSO… BETTER BE ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH US!
“C’mon,” I smiled, looking around. “You’re putting me on, right?”
But Kyle only shook his head. “I’m twenty-six. Know how many relationships I’ve been through?” he asked. “How hard it is, keeping a girlfriend when you can be deployed at any moment, and then gone for half the year or more?”
I shrugged. “Yeah, sure. I get all that, but still—”
“Know how many military marriages actually make it? How many women give up on their relationships because they can’t stand being alone anymore?”
I really didn’t. I imagined it was high, though.
“And with Rangers, like us?” He shook his head. “It’s even worse. We disappear almost overnight. Return without notice. It drives a partner crazy, I’ll tell you. Not that I’d blame them for it.”
I had to laugh. “So you’re willing to give some poor girl four times the heartache?”
“No,” he said. “Actually just the opposite. In doing things this way,” he pointed at his phone’s screen, “you’re getting only a quarter of the heartache, because—”
“—because you’d have three other lovers,” I finished for him.
“Exactly.”
I looked at him and saw truth in his eyes. Truth according to him, anyway. He actually believed this stuff. He saw it as a rational approach.