Hot on the Trail. Vicki Tharp
didn’t run away. I changed duty stations to Okinawa. To a shit assignment that I didn’t want but gladly took because it would have allowed me to take you with me. A chance for us to be together.”
“Why didn’t you discuss your plans with me beforehand?” she asked.
“Probably for the same reason you didn’t discuss your plans with me.”
She shook her head, toeing a clod of dirt with the tip of her boot. Dink must have sensed her distress, because he slinked over to her side, resting his head against her leg. Reaching down, she scratched him under the chin. “Helping the veterans…it was a calling, something I had to do, here, with Mac and Boomer.”
“I get that, Jenn. I didn’t join the Marines to scratch an itch. I joined because, like you, it was something I had to do.”
“Another time, then. In another life. It might have worked out.”
“Maybe,” he said. “Maybe.”
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