Richie’s comment at the beginning of the questioning, saying “He’s dead,” had been ill-timed.
“Our records do not show that. How do you know about a major drug runner’s death? Are you the one who killed him? Did you take over his operation?”
Richie had clammed up after that for what good it did them. And that left Melissa to wonder if he had.
She waited until they were truly alone and whispered, “Estevan? You?”
He shook his head.
She wondered how he’d known about it then.
“Kyle.”
Oh. That explained it. Except… “Not Carla?”
“No. Not for lack of desire though.”
And that left Melissa with a lot to think about. Despite the Operator Training Course and now flight training, she had yet to be in the field as an operator. Her last military action had been a 101st Airborne deployment that
