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Then Beckett glanced over at the door and saw us Our eyes ht, oh fuck Now you’re in for it, Miranda…

Those blue eyes felt like they pierced right through ive him, but most of all, I wanted to knohy I had to

So instead of bolting like a frightened deer, I stood firm and waited for him to come to me

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Beckett

It rained all week, the water soaking h exercise in so that I slept at night instead of lying awake, thinking of everything

Everything, like Miranda Parker Widow of Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Daniel Lewis

It was crazy – I’d only met her six weeks earlier How could she occupy so much emotional real estate in so short a time?

As Casey reminded me, I read her letters, all three dozen, and felt like I knew her far better than you noret to know a person in that short amount of ti who she was and how she felt

The truth was that I wanted someone like her to love me the way she loved Dan

The way Sue had loved me

Miranda didn’t know me, but I was familiar territory Military A law enforcement type We seemed simpatico and shared a similar sense of humor Sexually, ere definitely coer lover

I considered texting her several ti the pain Once she knew the truth, she’d hate ain – the death of her new husband The trauma of the news, his body torn up in the accident, burnt beyond recognition

Most of all, the fact that he died while rescuing me

I couldn’t even explain the mission I was on to justify the death I couldn’t ad classified Black Not on the books