Atwater was adamant about exploring every facet of carrier life. Steve would have preferred to use the public affairs office on the 01 deck, but apparently Ms. Killigrew left for a moment, then returned with the reporter. "Send her in." He unfolded his long frame and stood, assuming the stiff and wary posture schooled into him by twenty-six years in the Navy. In the belly of a carrier there was no day or night, just an unrelenting fluorescent sameness, stale recycled air and the constant thunder of flight ops rattling through the steel bones of the ship. Francine Atwater is here to see you, sir." Bennett hid a frown. "Captain Bennett?" An administrative officer stood in the doorway with a clipboard in one hand and a PDA in the other. He had no idea whether or not they could put their marriage back together again. The cruise was nearly over, and for the first time in his career Steve felt apprehensive about going home. He received official communiqués about the children, and sometimes the occasional report that made him regret giving her power of attorney. She had maintained radio silence like a wartime spy. The woman who had not spoken to him willingly since he'd been deployed.
He was ten thousand miles from home, on an aircraft carrier in the middle of an unofficial communications blackout instigated by Grace herself.
Instead, he sat with his feet propped on the edge of the workstation, hands clasped behind his head while he stared at a scenic Washington State calendar and thought about Grace.
He ought to be in his rack and sleeping soundly. Steve Bennett glanced at the clock on his computer screen. USS Dominion (CVN-84) 0037N 17820W Sphours (Time Zone YANKEE) Susan Wiggs Contents CHAPTER 1 CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 CHAPTER 4 CHAPTER 5 CHAPTER 6 CHAPTER 7 CHAPTER 8 CHAPTER 9 CHAPTER 10 CHAPTER 11 CHAPTER 12 CHAPTER 13 CHAPTER 14 CHAPTER 15 CHAPTER 16 CHAPTER 17 CHAPTER 18 CHAPTER 19 CHAPTER 20 CHAPTER 21 CHAPTER 22 CHAPTER 23 CHAPTER 24 CHAPTER 25 CHAPTER 26 CHAPTER 27 CHAPTER 28 CHAPTER 29 CHAPTER 30 CHAPTER 31 CHAPTER 32 CHAPTER 33 CHAPTER 34 CHAPTER 35 CHAPTER 36 CHAPTER 37 CHAPTER 38 CHAPTER 39 CHAPTER 40 CHAPTER 41 CHAPTER 42 CHAPTER 43 CHAPTER 44 CHAPTER 45 CHAPTER 46 CHAPTER 47 CHAPTER 48 CHAPTER 49 CHAPTER 50 CHAPTER 51
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