Chapter 3
“I’m telling you, Dr. Van Allyn, the general is going to be extremely unhappy if Marsham delays us any further.”
“Call me Doc, why don’t you?” I sighed. Ed had griped the whole way out to the launch pad because of Nick’s last-minute pit stop.
Nick, on the other hand, had just grinned at him. “Eddie, didn’t your momma ever tell you to make sure you ‘went’ before you left home?”
Hank and I had laughed with him, and Ed finally grinned, albeit reluctantly.
His own family had been wiped out a few years earlier when the jet they’d been traveling in went down in the Pacific; he’d been stationed in Hawaii, and of course they’d been with him. But then his wife’s mother had requested her daughter and grandchildren come for a visit. He’d driven them to the jetport, waving as she and th
