Chapter Nine
Ben and his team had been gone for five days, and Hannah was starting to worry. How long was he going to be gone for? She had hoped he would call her at least once to let her know he was alive, but she heard nothing. Cora, who had been keeping her busy the past few days, had assured her this was normal, and some missions went longer than others. Cora told her she just needed to be patient and have faith he’d come back. Hannah didn’t know if she could. Hundreds of scenarios ran through her head of what could go wrong. Was he alive? Dead? Injured? What if they got ambushed again? She couldn’t take the stress. How did so many military spouses do it? The worrying and the wondering.
“You get used to it,” Cora told her. “Each of these guys is highly trained to handle all situation
