Troy: SEALs of Honor, Book 24 by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773363455
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-03-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Berkley clicked away through her computer, heading for the administration side in the schedules. As soon as she brought up the last month, she typed in his name. “Well, look at that,” she said. “He was here when I arrived, and apparently he was here right through the explosion.”

“But he’s off now, correct?”

“None of this has been filled out since,” she said. “It was such a panic that everybody took off as soon as they could. I don’t think anybody’s done the checkouts.”

“Don’t you have tag scanners or something so that, as they leave, they’re all counted?”

“In a perfect world, yes,” she said simply. “In this case, not so much. We do have a bunch who have been tagged as out but not everyone.”

“So then, how is it that Daniel knew four were missing?”

“You’ll have to ask Daniel that,” she said, shaking her head. “I don’t really know. And, of course, his information was wrong anyway, so it’s not likely we can count on that.”

“Maybe that’s something we should go back and ask him.”

Only they didn’t have to, as they looked up just moments later to see Chucky and Winslow walking in. The two of them had their heads together and their voices low. When they saw the three of them in here, they froze. She smiled at them and asked, “You guys okay?”

“Nothing about this is okay,” Chucky said, shoving his hands in his pockets.

“How did you determine the four were missing?” Troy asked them bluntly.

“I had a clipboard,” Chucky said. “Once I did the calculations and a roll call check, four were missing.” He looked over at Winslow. “But what I didn’t know was that three of the managers were already in the cooler downstairs.”

“Right,” she said in surprise. “That makes sense.”

“Never thought to check.” And his tone was morose.

“So then how many are missing?”

“No one apparently. They are now all accounted for,” he said.

At that, nobody said anything.

Chucky walked farther into the room and sat down at his desk on the far side. “I don’t even know what I’m doing here,” he said. “The power’s flickering all over the place.”

“I heard there’s talk of several engineering teams coming in to do the repairs,” Axel said.

“Can’t happen soon enough for me,” Winslow said. “Like I said, we’ve got just ten days to go.”

“Well, it’s almost bedtime anyway,” Berkley said. “I’m tired. All this stress has been pretty rough.”

“I hear you there,” Chucky said. “I’m just a little worried that I won’t get to live out my ten days to even get off here.”

“In what way?” Troy asked curiously.

Chucky shrugged. “All kinds of shit is going on.” He reached up and tapped his head. “Somebody put me in that freezer,” he said, “and I don’t know who.” He glared at the three of them. “For all I know it was you three.”

“Well, for that matter, you don’t know that it wasn’t Winslow either,” Berkley said in exasperation. “We have no reason for locking you in, and, if we

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