Total pages in book: 47
Estimated words: 45135 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 226(@200wpm)___ 181(@250wpm)___ 150(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 45135 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 226(@200wpm)___ 181(@250wpm)___ 150(@300wpm)
The disquiet within him rose. Something was wrong. She needed him and he wasn’t there. He was unable to protect her.
Swearing, he went back to his vehicle. Seated behind the wheel, he thought about how he was going to track her down. A throat clearing brought his eyes back open. His brother, Renny, Sugar and Cindy were there.
“What’s the plan?” Sugar asked.
“My boys are ready if we need them,” Tav said tossing a bag on the floorboard and hopping in the passenger seat.
The other three climbed in the back.
“I don’t know where to start looking.”
“What about some of the guys who had her image slapped on those porn images?” Cindy posed the question.
He and Tav whipped around. “What the fuck are you talking about?” Davin growled.
The other two looked at her but she didn’t drop his gaze. “I thought she would have told you. Her,” she snapped her fingers and Renny spoke up.
“COB.”
“That’s it. Took her aside and showed her a file of photos they’d taken from some of the guys on the sub. They had porn stills and had put her photo over the woman in the image.”
“A lot of.” Sugar picked up one of each girls’ hand.
Rage boiled within him. “What, if anything, did she say happened to those guys?”
“Nothing. She told us that he’d told her they were being punished.”
“Fucker also told her she should walk with others and not alone because it wasn’t safe.”
Red clouded his vision.
“I’m going to base.” He faced the front. “Get out and I’ll meet you at home as soon as I have my answers.”
“You know I’d be there at your side if I could.”
“I know, Tav. Thank you.”
They all climbed out and he drove away. This time he didn’t stop until he was by the range. He parked where he usually did and walked to his office.
“Fuck!” he punched the wall, grimacing over the pain and the subsequent hole he’d just created there.
With his uninjured hand he called the Puerto Rico. He requested to speak to the CO. Enough of this shit.
The man said he could come down and talk. That was all he needed. So he set off at a jog and made good time down that pier. Nodding at the base security he passed as he ran, he continued. Nothing and no one was going to stop him.
Letting the Officer of the Deck know who he was there to see, he paced as he waited. His unease and anger growing with each passing second.
“You asked to speak to me, Commander Bly?”
He looked at Captain Allen. He looked like a sub captain. Weathered and built of the kind of stuff you only got from serving beneath the waves.
“This is about Lieutenant Kirk.”
The man lifted a brow and gestured to him to step off out of the way so they couldn’t be overheard.
“How do you know my officer?”
“She’s my girlfriend. And I’m worried. Right now, we don’t know where she is. I’m wanting to know what happened to the ones who had the porn where they put her head on the image? Are they out, are they ones I need to be worried about?”
His expression shuttered and grew angry. “You’re the Range Officer.”
“Yes sir.”
“Who the fuck said something to you about anything like that. I’ve never heard anything about it.”
“Perhaps then I should speak to the COB because he was the one who showed the file to her. And told her not to walk alone because it was dangerous.”
Anger lashed his eyes. “Petty Officer,” he yelled to the man on watch.
“Yes sir?”
“Get the COB up here asap.”
“Aye aye, Captain.”
“I hate people telling me things about my boat I don’t know and I get a borderline sadistic thrill from alerting them to the fact they were wrong. And I hope to fucking god I get to do that to you.”
“So do I, but my woman doesn’t lie.”
She may be pissed he was tossing it around they were a couple but he’d risk anything to make sure she was not hurt or worse. Crossing his arms, he waited impatiently for this COB to show up.
“Captain?”
They both looked at another commander who walked up. Lewis by the name tag.
“I didn’t send for you, XO. I sent for COB.”
Captain Allan faced the petty officer. The commander shifted in front, blocking the view.
“COB isn’t on board. He switched with me. What’s going on?”
“Tell me what you know about all this porn they found on the deployment with a face of one of my sailors taped over them.”
He shook his head, his eyes wide. “What are you talking about? We didn’t have anything like that happen on the cruise.” Lewis crossed his arms as well. “What’s going on sir? Commander?”
“Bly here is Kirk’s boyfriend and she’s missing. COB supposedly showed her a file of porn stills that had her face on the woman.”