A Broken Alliance (Sentenced to War Book 5) by J.N. Chaney & Jonathan P. Brazee

Author:J.N. Chaney & Jonathan P. Brazee [Chaney, J.N. & Brazee, Jonathan P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Variant Publications
Published: 2021-08-30T22:00:00+00:00

21

“So, what the hell were you doing today?” Tomiko asked as she stepped into the room and closed the door behind her.

“Being stupid,” Bob answered for Rev.

She pulled up one of the room’s two chairs, turned it around, and sat, her arms over the back of the chair, her legs straddling it.

“I just talked to Bundy. He’s pissed.”

“He should have known I’d be OK,” Rev said.

“That’s not why he’s mad. He knew you would be OK. Who on this planet’s gonna mess up an IBHU Marine? And Crocker told him he saw you chasing someone out by the street, so he had an idea of what you were doing.

“No, he was pissed because you put him in a bad position. He should have reported you as missing, but he held back. And he gave you an order to stop.”

“And I told him I needed a sec. Needs of the mission,” Rev said. But that wasn’t a valid excuse, he knew.

“How bad is it?” he asked.

“He’ll get over it. He’s Bundy. But you might want to apologize later.”

Rev nodded. He did owe it to the man.

Tomiko leaned over the back of the chair closer, her eyes alight. “So, with that out of the way, what happened? Did you really break that guy’s arm?”

“No.”

“That’s not what I heard. The battalion already has a complaint from him, and he evidently does have a broken arm. Hand. Something. You’re saying you didn’t do it? Not that I blame you, of course, if you did.”

“If he’s got anything broken, he did it. He tried to hit me in the head with his hand, but my helmet got in the way.”

Tomiko broke out laughing and said, “What a dumb shit.”

“You didn’t tell me that,” Bob said.

“We just got back. I told the major what happened, and she said I did nothing wrong. So, I’m not going to worry about it. Plus, the guy came at me with a tree branch. And he said he’s coming after my family back home.”

“How does he know where you live?” Tomiko asked.

“Well, I kinda told him I was from Safe Harbor.”

“You what?” she asked, her mouth open in shock.

“Well, he worked for five years in Surrey Town. And it just slipped out.”

Bob shook his head in disbelief. “Did you tell the major that?”

Rev nodded.

“Good. At least it will be on the record. And we should level charges. Keep the asshole in jail longer.”

Not a bad idea. Maybe I’ll ask later if that’s even possible.

But there was something else weighing on his mind. He’d planned on tracking down Tomiko later, but she’d come to him. Rev gave Bob a look, then shifted to Tomiko. He’d rather talk to her alone about this, but Bob was a friend, too.

“He called me a traitor. He kept going on and on about it, about how Dillinger is a Union company and all.”

“He’s full of shit, Rev. We fought—you fought—during the invasion to throw off the Centaurs. Is that what a traitor does?”

“No. But, what if it had gotten worse.

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