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year hit the news like a category five hurricane.
News of the man’s rescue splattered all around the damn world, and Riel was caught right up in
the middle of it. Again.
Hayes Ulysses Romaine, 31, rescued from an Afghan prison by SEAL Team 8.
“Why are we going there?” Riel asked, sounding confused after being told that he was needed
where Hayes was being debriefed.
“Yes, well I don’t quite know the answer to that, either. I was just told to pick you up and get you there.” Supposedly Riel’s superior in the Navy had said that he was needed. His name was Tim, and
he’d told both Riel and me that Riel had eaten at his house. Played with his kids.
I studied Tim.
“We were going on vacation. Literally, we were walking out the door to drive there,” I said
gesturing to our luggage. “Can I go, too? We could just hop right on over to Destin after we’re done in St. Petersburg.”
Tim shrugged. “I don’t see why not.”
He eyed Riel and me warily, as if he wasn’t sure what to think about us going on vacation
together.
Well, that made two of us, buddy.
We were fumbling right along with everyone else.
We were attracted to each other, yet neither of us had acted on anything.
We knew that something huge—an elephant named Luca—sat in the room with us, making
everything feel awkward.
And the damn DNA test was taking too long.
Granted, it’d only been a couple of hours at most since we’d dropped the samples off in the lab
last night, but that was enough that I felt like I had time to overthink.
“Okay.” I nodded. “Do you want us to drive? Or do you want to follow us?”
Tim was already shaking his head.
“No driving,” he said. “We have a military plane at the airport.”
There was a long moment of silence before Riel said, “A plane.”
I started to get a sinking feeling in my stomach.
“We won’t have a car when we get there,” he said. “How will we get back? How will we get to
Destin?”
Tim looked thoughtful for a second.
