Acting Captain Penny Brightman stood riveted to the deck as this Miranda Chase person led her team away to study the wreckage. They began working the line as methodically as they had walked the deck: one step at a time.
The woman claimed that Number 892’s crash hadn’t been an accident but rather an attack.
And then walked away as if that revelation was of no consequence?
A direct attack on a US aircraft carrier? It was incomprehensible.
It did make her feel bad for all of the foul thoughts she’d been heaping on Gabriel Brown’s memory throughout the day as she’d struggled to keep her ship together without losing her s**t. Or was it the other way, keeping her own personal s**t together to keep from losing her ship?
But now…
She picked up her secure satellite phone and waved for her Num
