Chapter one
Sheryl and I have been watching each other's backs since she were five and i seven; we vowed to be there for each other till the end of days. We grew up in an orphanage under the watchful eyes of the head mistress Rachel. We faced everything life could throw at us together. We left for the navy after graduating high school. Navy seal training was brutal but not as bad as this.
We're stuck in the middle of South America in a rainforest south of Brazil. We were sent on a mission to take out a world famous drug lord named Stephan Delgado that no government could touch by law. This drug lord apparently has a mansion somewhere in the jungle. Most of our team have been killed on this mission or so everyone else besides certain members of our team thought. All that's left is my long-time friend Sheryl and I.
Our team was ambushed at a warehouse in the middle of nowhere that was supposed to be the lab where these no good thugs were developing a deadly mix between cocaine, meth and heroin. Our team already took out three labs a few days before the ambush. I can't even count on both my hands how many times Sheryl and i saved each other's lives in the past three weeks. Our radio was destroyed in the ambush at the warehouse, so we had no communication with our people back home.
It's dark, quiet and misty in this jungle; the sun was just starting to rise over the eastern mountains. We can't have any light and we can't cook what we catch so we wouldn't draw attention to our location. We have been living on raw fish and edible fruits from the jungle. Sheryl and I have been on our own for two weeks now. We built a camouflaged tree house in the highest tree in the jungle out of harm's way. We could see everything in a seven hundred meter radius. We used equipment to survive we gathered weeks before when we all raided the other labs.
As I was patrolling around our area looking for food I heard voices and ducked for cover before anyone could see or hear me. Sheryl was watching my back through a lens of a sniper rifle from the tree house. Two guys passed me. I watched them in silence, and then suddenly my foot slipped from under me in the mud. They stopped and turned in my direction weapons ready.
One of them suddenly fell dead on the ground. Sheryl took him out. The other one turned to his partner.
I stood up silently, snuck up behind him as he reached for his walkie talkie and broke his neck in one swift move. I grabbed their weapons and bags, hid their bodies in the bushes then headed toward the tree house.
"That was way too close for comfort." I said over my headset.
"I know Joe, don't worry. You know i always got your back." She answered back.
"I know you do; I just can't imagine my life without you Sheryl." I said.
"And I can't imagine mine without you Joe. That is exactly why you and i make such a good team." She said letting out a sigh.
"Why the sigh, Sheryl?" I asked her.
"Oh, nothing I was just thinking about something, nothing important really."
A few months ago I realised that Sheryl was checking me out. It actually occurred to me that she might feel something for me. Every time she looked at me I could see something else in her eyes, a kind of needy and lustful look. The trouble was that I was doing exactly the same. It was against military rules to have a relationship with another member. We could be thrown out of the military if caught. This was our last mission then our four year service contract would be completed. After that we could do whatever we liked.
When I got back at the tree house we checked inside the bags and found tinned food, spare ammo cartridges and a map of the jungle with the location of one last lab and the mansions blueprints. This was defiantly our lucky break we were waiting for but it doesn't feel right.
I looked at Sheryl suddenly noticing how beautiful she really is, her eyes and her lips. I could feel my eyes traveling down her neck and shoulders down to her breasts. I was admiring every inch of her body.
"What are the odds of us finding these, Joe?" Sheryl asked with a smile as she caught me staring at her body.
"I don't know Sheryl, but this seems way too easy for me. Either those two men were prone to get lost or this is a trap." I said in disbelief over our findings. I was undressing Sheryl with my eyes and she caught me doing it. I suddenly blushed, my ears feeling very warm.
"Oh Joe, this is the break we needed to catch these guys and end this drug parade. Then we can go home. What's wrong Joe you look like you are burning up or something?" Sheryl said watching me.
"Oh nothing I just felt a little feverish all of a sudden ... okay, let's just pack out the rest of the stuff in these bags and see what else we can find." I answered her knowing that she knew i was lying. I couldn't look her in the eye when i lied about anything. She caught me out every time.
"Okay, if you say so Joe." She said digging in one of the bags.
Sheryl held up two id tags in her hand.
"Apparently those two goons were builders for Stephan. It looks like these tags were used to get in to his grounds. See the barcodes Joe?"
"Yes I see Sheryl. So they get scanned in, I wonder what they need all the security for? What else are they hiding in there?" I said grabbing the map of the mansion grounds.
"I sure would like to find out Joe?" Sheryl said as she yawned stretching her arms into the air exposing the form of her chest and breasts.
I couldn't keep my eyes off of her, something about her just lured me in deeper into an abyss I could not get out of. Sheryl just smiled at me lowering her arms.
"I think we need some coffee, don't you?" I said as I got up taking our tin cups in my hand.
I heated some water in a tin camping kettle on a one plate mini gas stove connected to a nine litre gas bottle. It is quite amazing what you can find in a lab. As I prepared our cups with coffee and sugar, I could feel Sheryl standing behind me. I turned around with my eyes connecting with her beautiful clear light blue eyes. We were standing face to face. I could see a sparkle in her eyes I have never seen before. I could smell her every scent come from her. She smelled like jasmine; the perfume she loves so much.
"Joe, I want to do something that I wanted to do a long time ago." Sheryl said looking into my green-brown eyes with a sly little smile on her face.
"I ... what ... Sheryl ..."
I stood there stunned as she pressed her lips to mine silencing me. I sank deeper into this new sensation as she wrapped her arms around my neck. I wrapped my arms around her waist wanting more of her. Her lips tasted so sweet, so perfect. We broke our kiss looking deep into each other's eyes.
"Wow ... you ... I ... never expected that." I said still stunned.
"That was better than I thought it would be. You should see the look on your face Joe; I wish I had a camera." Sheryl said grabbing my ass with both her hands. I jumped in surprise then we both fell to the floor.
I landed on top of her cushioning her head with my one hand and my other hand landed on her breast by mistake. We spent about a split second looking into each other's eyes which felt like an eternity. I leaned in and kissed her. She tasted so sweet.
Sheryl wrapped her legs around my body pinning me closer into her. I could feel her nipple growing firmer under my hand. She started unbuttoning my shirt
Revealing what she wanted to feel under her soft hands. Sheryl moved her hands slowly and softly over my body down to my belt. As she started to undo the buckle I stopped her.
"You really surprise me, you know that Sheryl?" I said smiling.
