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It was his wife, Cora.
Cora, who was also my missing fiancé’s sister.
“Hey, Frankie,” Cora said, sounding tired. “What’s going on? Are you okay? You don’t usually
call this early.”
I smiled at her concern.
“I’m calling because I thought I’d tell Dad so he could tell you that I saw Malachi yesterday,” I
said softly.
Cora hissed in a breath.
“I heard he was back.”
Cora hadn’t known Malachi as well as I had, but she had met him a few times here and there.
But she knew, from both Luca and me, what he meant to her brother.
Luca had become fast friends with Malachi in bootcamp.
From there, they’d gone into BUD/S training together, and further moved into the same space.
They’d gotten along famously, and before long, you couldn’t think about one man without also
thinking about the other.
Which was why it’d gutted me seeing him yesterday.
Because for Malachi to be here, that meant that Luca was gone.
Because Malachi wouldn’t have left Luca behind. Not unless he was well and truly gone.
I hadn’t gotten the specifics of the rescue.
But, from what I’d been able to gather from other people, the conditions in which Malachi were
found were dismal at best.
My dad had some knowledge of how he’d been found, and he’d informed me that knowing
wouldn’t be a good thing for me.
So, I’d let it go.
Because if my dad said it wouldn’t be a good thing for me to know, I was willing to trust him.
And since he knew that I had a very vivid imagination, and would assume the worst? Well, then it
had to be truly worse than anything that I could ever imagine.
“He’s back.” I paused, feeling something inside my throat thicken to the point that I could barely
breathe. “Cora… he looks so bad.”
Bad wasn’t even the right word.
