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Connie knew she’d been avoiding John. Even when they were standing only five feet apart, conferring closely with the technicians on the ADAS calibration requirement on the Vengeance, she still was avoiding him. Moving so that a vendor’s tech or a tool cart always ended up between them.
Once, when the space got too tight, she made an excuse to go over to Viper and check how they were dealing with a similar issue.
She wasn’t good at being subtle, but she needed the distance and was doing her best. She could see that John wasn’t stupid and knew what she was doing. And bless the man, he wasn’t pushing her.
While staring at the readouts on the latest image overlap alignment test, Connie worked to unravel why she was avoiding John. First and foremost: Army Command Policy Regulation 600-20
