Whalen (Shadow Recon Book 5) by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773367330
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2023-10-16T18:30:00+00:00

Day 4 Afternoon

When Chrissy heard a knock on her door, she knew instinctively it would be Whalen. She opened the door and smiled at him. “Well?”

“Magnus wants to see what you can come up with,” he said, speaking softly. “And again, this is all to be kept quiet, and nobody is to know anything about it.”

“Got it.” She followed him down the hallway. “I presume this Jaden guy didn’t offer very much in the way of assistance?”

“Only that he didn’t do anything to encourage his friend and that he did try to protest his leaving but decided, since he couldn’t change Ralph’s mind, he might as well support him the best he could and make sure he was well-dressed for being out there, at least. He seems to think there was no reason Ralph couldn’t have made the trip on his own and that we must have had something to do with his death.”

She stopped in her tracks and in a hoarse astonished whisper, she asked, “You guys?”

Whalen nodded. “Yeah, according to Jaden, we were the ones who found him after all and so soon,” he shared, with an eye roll. “Therefore, we probably got to him while he was still alive and made sure he didn’t come back that way.”

“But he had to have been dead for hours.”

“I don’t think Jaden’s in any way prepared to hear that,” Whalen noted, with a lopsided smile in her direction. “People shift their perception of things to suit themselves. Remember?”

“You used to say things like that all the time,” she muttered. “I didn’t really realize, not until I had to deal with people a lot more myself, just how true it is.”

“Unfortunately it’s quite true, and everybody’s perspective is different. You’ll come up with one perspective, and somebody else will come up with another one.”

“Which is okay. Different perspectives can be great,” she acknowledged, “but, when everything is so seriously wrong and when those different perspectives seem so far removed from reality, you have to wonder how they reach those conclusions.”

“It’s frustrating when we’re up against these things right now because obviously I didn’t do anything to kill Ralph. He had been dead for hours before we ever found him. We went out knowing it would be a recovery mission, yet hoping he might have made it to the village. It definitely can be done, and we have people here who make that trip on a regular basis. But they are people who really know what they’re doing in these conditions.”

“Like Mountain. So that huge body mass, … do you think it would take him longer to die of the cold?”

“Sure, an extra what, two minutes?” he muttered.

She nodded. “I guess size doesn’t save you then.”

“Keep in mind Mountain also requires a certain amount of body heat to keep that mass going. It’s not as if we have much in the way of easy answers to give doubters, like Jaden. It doesn’t save you just to know that you’re a certain size,” he said pointedly.

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