Wolves in the Night by Chris Stewart

Author:Chris Stewart
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Mercury Ink
Published: 2013-01-11T04:30:00+00:00

They sat on the cement steps of the Wooden Building and talked for three hours. He missed his ROTC drills. She missed a lab. Neither of them noticed. Neither of them cared. Sometime after sunset, he walked her home. Sitting on the front steps of her apartment building, they kept on talking until sometime after midnight.

Early the next morning, he called her on her cell phone. She picked up as if she’d been waiting. What was the point in pretending? A ball had started rolling that neither of them could control. They didn’t want to control it. They wanted it to roll.

“Have I earned an inch?” he asked before she could even say hello.

She didn’t answer, puzzled.

“You got to make the enemy earn every inch,” he reminded her.

She laughed and answered, “Yeah, I guess you’ve earned an inch.”

“Then I get to know your last name?”

“All right, general, my last name is McKenny.”

“Well, Miss McKenny, are you doing anything tonight?”

“I’m sorry, but I’m afraid that I have plans.”

The line was silent.

“I’ve got a date with a guy I’m really smitten with,” she went on.

She could hear him deflate, his breath exhaling in her ear.

“He’s intelligent and good-looking, but it seems like there’s—I don’t know, something more. I can’t explain . . . .”

He was silent; then he got it. He sat there stunned. Everything that he was thinking, she was thinking, too.

“What time’s good for you?” he asked urgently.

“Soon as you can get here, general.”

“I’m on my way,” he said.

Two months later, they decided on the wedding date.

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