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Then his eyes met mine.
“That makes two of us.”
***
A pair of unsettling eyes landed on me.
They were full of authority, unapologetic, and quite frankly terrifying.
Honestly, the man wasn’t all that ‘scary’ looking at first glance.
He was a man in his late fifties, with graying brown hair, a weathered face, and an intense, clean-
shaven jaw.
But his eyes were where things changed.
“Who are you?” the man asked.
He was in full uniform. He was so put together that it literally took everything I had not to reach forward and push the medals on his chest slightly to the side. Just to see how he’d react.
“This is Francesca Solomon. The fiancée,” Tim said. “One of our deceased SEAL team members.
You remember Gabriel Luca Maldonado, III. Right, Commander Mooney?”
Recognition flared in Commander Mooney’s eyes.
Then sadness and worry.
I frowned, wondering what had put those two emotions there.
“And this is…”
“Riel,” I said his name, not wanting him to be introduced as Malachi since he hated it so much.
“I thought your name was Malachi?” the man asked.
“It’ssupposedto be, sir,” Riel grumbled. “I just don’t like going by it. It doesn’t feel…right.”
Sergeant Mooney’s eyes were sharp as they focused all on the man that I was starting to have
feelings for.
“Is that so?” he asked, his eyes turning to Tim. “Have a seat.”
Everyone did, me taking up the spot closest to the wall at our back.
Riel sat beside me, looking for all he was worth as if he was comfortable being in the room when
he and I both knew he was not.
He didn’t like being in closed spaces.
And we were in the ultimate closed space.
Five floors up, the room we were led to had been in the middle of the building. There were no
windows in the room we were in, and I could tell that Riel was starting to feel trapped.
