SEALs of Honor: Chase by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, military, Romance
ISBN: 9781988315201
Publisher: Valley Publishing
Published: 2016-12-26T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Giving testimony on behalf of her clients and the people she worked with was a different story than giving a statement about something that happened to herself. She much preferred the former to the latter.

But it gave her new understanding of the process, the feelings of violation, even the questions that seemed more like an interrogation. As if she were lying.

She hated that.

Still, it didn’t take as long as she expected. Back outside she was asked to sit on the bench while Chase was called in to a different room. Apparently the DA was here for a separate case but wanted to speak with him. She worried on her bottom lip, wondering how long he was going to be. She checked her phone several times. It seemed like he’d been in there for hours already. Finally she heard her name called. She looked up to see Chase standing at an open door with his hand out for her. She raced to his side and slipped her hand into his.

“Are you done? Can we go home now?”

“Not quite.” He looked back at the person inside the room and said, “We’re printing off material right now. It’s going to take a little bit, but I wanted to make sure you were okay.”

“Can I come in there with you,” she asked quietly, her gaze looking around the noisy station. She could see and hear a lot of what went on, and it was disturbing in so many ways.

Particularly when Chase was in a private room out of sight.

“Sure.” He motioned her into the room and quickly introduced her to the district attorney who’d be handling Gregory’s case. They had a small boardroom to themselves, and it was much more comfortable than out in the station. She sat quietly in the corner while the men went over the paperwork. And there was a lot of it.

Finally he was done and Chase stood again. She’d spent the whole time just listening as the bits and pieces of his life were exposed. It wasn’t very pleasant to hear the details of how Gregory had terrorized the town where Chase grew up.

She felt so sorry for him, for what he’d been through, but at the same time, hearing, seeing this was a gift. It helped her understand who he was now, and how he’d become this man he was today.

She understood the young terrorized boy he’d been. She’d been there in a minor way. It had taken a lot of guts for him to even collect this information. That he’d hung onto it for as long as he had took forethought and some idea of reckoning day down the road. She could understand him not doing anything with this material for all his past years he was in the military as that was a completely different life and probably seemed so far removed from that boy he had been. But Gregory had brought this to his table. And Chase was never going to be somebody who walked away from a fight.

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