looked at it half a second longer than necessary.
She noticed.
Her smile widened, and she lifted her wrist while adjusting her hair to make sure I saw it.
Message received.
I walked past her.
“Captain Harper.”
I turned.
Major Collins.
I had met him once during a logistics briefing.
“Sir,” I said with a nod.
“Welcome back,” he said. “Heard you had a rough deployment.”
“Nothing I couldn’t handle.”
Before he could continue, Evelyn appeared beside us.
“Oh, she’s being modest,” she said with a soft laugh. “It’s been
