The Second Life of the Malicious Colonel's Daughter novel · Chapter 13 of 24

Chapter 13: The General's Door

Isaiah lay quiet for so long that I thought he had fallen asleep.

"Who is above him?" he said at last.

"You tell me. You're the one who works there."

"The general. He commands the whole post, and Redfern reports to him."

"Then that's where it goes."

"I have no badge, Jessamine. I have no appointment. I'm a suspended man in a pressed uniform."

I got out of bed and found my vest on the chair.

The folded square was in the lining where it had been for two days.

I came back and put it in his hand, and closed his fingers over it.

"You carry it," I said.

"You said I hadn't earned it."

"I said it to myself. You've earned it."

"Is this a test?"

"It's the opposite. If it goes wrong in that building, it goes wrong on you, and I can't help."

He held the paper against his chest.

"That's a test," he said.

"Fine. It's a test."

He laughed, quietly, and pulled me back down beside him.

At six-thirty we stood outside the general's headquarters, a white building with a flagpole and six steps.

I wore the one clean blouse again.

Isaiah wore his dress greens, with a pale rectangle on the belt where the badge had hung.

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