They knew everything about you.

Someone you trusted helped them choose me.” Her voice cracked on the word choose, and something in my chest splintered along the same line.

Chapter 10 — My Fortress

I had spent my whole career trusting the people beside me with my life.

I had stood in formation with soldiers who would have taken a bullet for me without a half-second’s hesitation.

I had believed, the way you have to believe to do this work, that the Army was my family and my fortress — the one place on earth where loyalty was not a word people said but a thing they lived.