SEAL & Veteran Series: The Complete Series by Leslie North

Author:Leslie North [North, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Published: 2019-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

10

“You seem agitated and distracted, Harris.”

Harris allowed his gaze to wander from the yellowing plant sitting on the radiator to peruse the rest of the small office. Mid-morning sun attempted to filter through the closed, brown, slatted blinds above the plant with no luck. Between the lack of sun and obvious overwatering, no wonder it was dying.

Dull, cracked, dented, and worn furniture, compliments of government funding, filled the rest of the depressing space, and Harris couldn’t wait until his mandatory hour was done.

The middle-aged therapist sitting attentively in a freshly pressed uniform had at one point been a door-kicking, first-one-in, tango-chaser, but had chosen to finish his master’s degree and put his education to use. First Lieutenant Greg Martinez, Ph.D., now had a crappy office stateside versus a crappy tent in some godforsaken country that probably hated the Marines’ presence.

Ahhhh, he led the good life.

“I’m fine,” Harris intoned, settling his focus on the man who held his future in his hands. Liar, liar. Frustration ate at Harris, and he wanted to scream at the lack of progress from the police on protecting Rachel from whoever it was who wanted her dead. The cops seemed to be taking the situation seriously when two marked cars with their sirens blazing had roared to where he had managed to stop the Elantra, but after the officers took his and Rachel’s statements, they didn’t offer much hope. Everyone agreed that Darryl was the most likely suspect with Tammy Winchester coming in at a close second, but without evidence, the police couldn’t do more than question them both.

Three motherf’ing sabotage attempts, each worse than the previous. What did the police need to stop the escalation? Rachel or their baby’s dead body? Ice shot down his spine at the mere thought, followed by white hot fury. He’d been tempted to question Darryl himself, but he feared he’d lose his temper and end up in jail, then dishonorably discharged—

“Master Sergeant McCallister,” 1st Lt. Martinez drew out, adjusting his tall frame in the ugly, pleather chair. “You see me three times a week. Have I ever allowed you to bullshit me?”

Goddamn it. He didn’t need this on top of everything else. “No, sir.” He gave the only correct response available. The therapist outranked him as a commissioned officer to Harris’s noncommissioned officer status, meaning Harris rose in ranks from enlisting, and Martinez started his military career already an officer and climbed from there.

The white pad of paper resting on the therapist’s thigh had a pen poised above it to capture all of Harris’s private thoughts and fears.

The silence drew out.

Shit. Pushing the brake failure and the lack of police response he’d hoped for to the back of his mind, one of the reasons he had to sit in this room bubbled up. Just confess already and get this over with. “I had another flashback last night.”

“Were you awake or dreaming?”

“Dreaming.” He crossed his arms and pushed into the back of the uncomfortable chair. “It woke me up, but I remembered enough to know I was reliving the Colombian mission.

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