CHAPTER 5: BENITOTHURSDAY SEEMED LIKE IT WOULD never get here. But it did. I went to the underwater training lab in the morning and tried to avoid Jenny. I really wasn’t in the mood to listen to her vicious tongue today. I guess I was tired and missing my colonel. At least he’d be home this evening.
I was reading a book and eating my lunch at one of the tables outside. It was a nice day, though cloudy. A nice day to fly-
“Excuse me?”
I looked up. “Yes? Can I help you, sir?”
The blond man regarded me, his head c****d to one side. “Maybe. Do you know a Colonel William Shepard?”
I nodded. “Yeah. But he’s out of town for the week. But you can leave a message for him at the information desk.”
The man seemed nervous, shifting from one foot to the other. A warning bell went off inside my he
