Chapter 11 — Take the Baton

“She told him all of it,” Ethan went on, and now his jaw was working, fighting something down.

“How you took over the shopping.

How you figured out the bills.

How you stayed up until two in the morning studying so you wouldn’t lose your scholarship — after doing everything else.

And how you sat up beside her bed every single night, just to make sure she kept breathing.” He had to stop for a second.

“My CO called me into his office the morning it came.