New Husband. Old One Gone novel · Chapter 24 of 32
Chapter 24: Two Captains Down
Mama stood up so fast her chair hit the wall.
"Speak about what?"
"The program says loyalty, ma'am," the agent said. "Service before self."
She picked up her purse.
She left the pound cake.
In the truck going home, I asked Sawyer how long an NCIS case takes.
"Ask the agent."
"I did. He said months. He said the general decides charges, and nothing gets decided before Memorial Day."
"So the wall goes up Monday," he said. "With Bryce in front of it. And Jesse not on it."
April went by.
Corey's hearing got a new date, and then no date at all, "pending the outcome of an investigation."
The yard ran six private boats at a time now. Mama raised my rates without telling me.
On the Wednesday before Memorial Day, the agent drove out to the yard.
He walked down the gravel in his windbreaker carrying Mama's cake pan, washed and empty.
"I wanted to bring this back in person," he said.
She made him sit at the kitchen table and cut him another one.
Corey and Sawyer came in behind him.
The agent took a bite and set his fork down.
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