Unconventional Beginnings by KaLyn Cooper

Author:KaLyn Cooper
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2017-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

6

The pilot smoothly touched the large bird onto the MCB Quantico airfield, the same landing strip where the president’s Marine One helicopter is kept when not in use.

Captain Lobo stepped out of the plane and settled his white hat on his head, hanging onto it assuring the wind didn’t blow it off. He walked over to the group of sailors dressed in their most formal uniform, the equivalent of the Marine Dress Blues he wore.

“Morning, gentlemen. I’m Captain Lobo and I’ll be handling today’s procedures,” Alex informed them.

The highest-ranking Navy men stepped up. “I’m Lieutenant John Carson.” He grabbed Alex’s muscled bicep and asked, “A word?” as he guided him a few feet away from the others.

“Look, I know they said you are in charge here, but Ty was SEAL, one of my teammates. We went through BUD/s together. We take care of our own.” The six-foot two-inch man was almost a mirror reflection of himself; broad shoulders that tapered to slim hips, a body toned daily with a regiment that would cripple most men, but was necessary for their jobs.

“I understand; we do the same in the Marines. But this is a special case. Ty was my best friend.”

At the click of high heels on tarmac, both men turned and watched as Katlin Callahan-Malone strode toward them with a straight-back, chin poised regally. The two-inch heels of her black leather designer pumps had increased her height to five-feet nine-inches, but she looked small as she gripped the inside left arm of her father, highly-decorated Marine General Callahan. Alex couldn’t read her face as they walked toward them, but he had no problem understanding the general’s mood.

“If you don’t like it, tell him,” Alex said brusquely as he nodded toward the Marine general wearing gold stars on his shoulders.

Katlin stumbled but quickly righted herself with the next step. She turned her face away from him and spoke to her father, too far away for Alex to hear over the winding down of the engines. He was, though, able to read the general’s lips as the older man assured her he would take care of everything.

“Ten hut. General on board,” he commanded and all Marines and sailors in the vicinity came to attention with a salute. The general’s salute was brief but crisp.

The wind lifted and blew Katlin’s long blonde hair across her father’s impeccable Dress Blue uniform. Using her free hand, she grabbed at the uncontrolled strands then slipped them underneath the navy blue suit jacket that matched her demure, knee-length dress. Alex almost smiled at the familiar gesture.

He wanted to look into Katlin’s blue within blue eyes but the Jackie O sunglasses covered her face from the top of her finely arched eyebrows to half way down her high-boned cheeks. He needed to know if she had any idea what happened in the hard-packed sand that awful night. He wanted to spare her the details, but needed her to know he had tried to get to Ty as fast as he could.

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