9 Danielle had thought they were being discrete, until she saw Sofia’s smile when everyone gathered at the base Mess Hall for breakfast that evening. The 5E’s team suddenly felt overwhelming large. Two pilots times four aircraft, five crew chiefs, and now Sofia and her copilot, a petite blonde. She and Pete had slept little, but she felt simultaneously wide awake and languid. And she also felt as if everyone could see writ large on her face that she’d just spent hours participating in life-changing s*x. Pete was such a powerful personality that he was constantly overwhelming her. Her nerve endings were exhausted by the unprecedented scale and quality of messages they’d had to transmit. And her emotions were wrung from the degree of pleasure and joy they’d been forced to contemplate. “W