Hawk (The Quiet Professionals, Book 2) by Ronie Kendig

Author:Ronie Kendig [Kendig, Ronie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781630589721
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

MITCH

Mitch sat on the edge of his cot with a military-grade iPad in hand. He pulled up the latest e-mail Sienna sent a few days ago. He’d watched the attached video a half-dozen times since. But heading back into the field after a medical recertification course, he wanted to burn these images, their voices into his head.

“Hey, Mitch. It’s me.” Sienna tucked her chin and smiled. She looked like she might actually be blushing. “The kids have a special thing they’ve put together for you. We hope it makes you smile—a lot. But…uh…be nice.”

Even though he’d watched it many times, her voice and warning to be nice to his own kids made him smile.

Sienna glanced over her shoulder, blocking his view of whatever she was looking at. Her long neck was tanned and bore a plain silver chain. “Ella, you ready?”

“Yes yes yes! Get ready, Daddy,” Ella shouted from somewhere off screen.

“Okay.” Sienna whirled away from the iPad.

Mitch leaned forward, confused at first with what he saw. He finally realized a sheet had been hung along the back wall. Styrofoam piled up made a snowman. There were paper snowflakes dangling from the ceiling.

Music played in the background.

Tears came to Mitch’s eyes as his daughter and son once again acted out and sang a scene from the movie Frozen. His little girl was quite the actress. He’d called her a drama queen from the beginning. Thought of her tiny hand clutching his fingers when she was a toddler. She knew how to work him over the same way her mother had.

Mitch opened another video Sienna had sent shortly after their aborted Six Flags trip. In it, Ella read a picture book—word for word. It was her favorite book about how much she loved him. He loved watching this video because it was normal. In the midst of his insane life and fighting terrorists, it was good and comforting to know his kids were home safe, living a normal, quiet life. That’s what he worked for. That’s what he fought for.

After that one, he surfed over to the one of Noah at baseball practice. The kid had a good swing but tended to close his eyes and miss the ball. They’d work on that when Mitch got back home soon.

His iPad cut the video off, indicating a Skype call from Sienna. His pulse kicked up a notch as he answered the call. “Hey.”

“Hi.” Bright brown eyes met his through the feed.

“I was just watching the video. I can’t believe you got them to do that.”

She smiled. “Ella had more fun. I think Noah hated being Kristoff, but it was that or Anna’s sister, Elsa.”

Mitch laughed. “I bet!” Man, he appreciated her. “Thanks for being so good to them. I hate not being there.”

“No worries. I love them, so…” She shrugged then looked away, her throat processing a swallow. A nervous swallow. And then he saw it. Saw her hesitation.

“You okay?”

“I…I just—”

“Harrier!”

At the sharp bark of his name by Captain Watters, Mitch sat straight.

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