Bounty and Bone

They say time heals all wounds. Well, I'm not getting any younger. My disciplinary file at ESCU is almost as thick as my personnel file, which is saying something since I've been working for them for more than twenty years. I do the jobs no one else wants, go places no one is supposed to go to deal with monsters that don't exist. After a while, you get a feel for how a mission's going to go, and I have a feeling this next one is going to be fifty shades of FUBAR. And not just because my new partner, Ziggy, is last night's one-night stand. Whom I may have accidentally married . . . He's a furry blue monster with big dreams and an even bigger heart. We're supposed to be locating an escaped monster and the AWOL soldier who broke him out. I can't afford to complicate our working relationship with feelings, especially given how my last relationship ended. For better or worse we're stuck together until I can figure out how to undo this, which is just as well considering everything I know about ESCU might be a lie. Contains mature themes.