Chapter Seven
Carolina checked her phone for the millionth time that afternoon. Cassie should have checked in by now. She always checked in after training exercises, and again before she drove home from Guard weekend. Had something happened? Her breathing quickened as she imagined her sister in a heap of burning metal. Just the other week, a helicopter had crashed in Texas, leaving no survivors. Dread gripped her. She couldn’t cope with one more death.
In the living room, her parents had taken a rare afternoon off to watch college basketball, but she couldn’t sit still and pretend like nothing was wrong. Pressing her fingers to her temples, she took a deep breath and blew it out. She could feel the panic rising through her chest, and there was nothing she could do to stop it. She was goi
