The long damned walk up the hill from the parking lot with his garment bag over his shoulder, in his now-thoroughly-wrinkled Service Alphas, the drab ...haki uniform of the Marines, had him sweating in the winter-weight (for wear in Virginia) woolen uniform.His room was in a side wing, to be near the Gunny's room, and the Gunny didn't have all the money in the world, he knew. Deb Reineau had set it up, she'd put them in the La Costa, probably for valet service and proximity to Pendleton.He'd. " I can see where it might be. She's constant. Active. And smart. Got her daddy's brain, I think." Nina smiled. "You know, sometimes I wonder..." Wonder what, dearest?" Me and you ... what ours would be..."Bang! The sound of my blood pressure spiking. She knew about the vasectomy. I turned to glance at her."Just idle thought or two, baby," she said. "You know how much I love you. And we've had that talk about kids before we got married. But seeing Sandy. You know she's more than half of YOU." I. Was just visualizing data and reviewing an incoming report from the fusion reactor detachment. That gave him time to watch her gesturing through the air and reading information only she could see by means of her build in retina display.Daniel preferred to access his data and reports with a physical, fleet issued pad. The roughly hand sized device had been in his possession since he had been chief weapons officer aboard the battleship SFS Yu Shan roughly eight years ago. He had been serving. When it actually took form, I was more dismayed than I'd ever thought I could be.Fred's eyes were bleary, his face was slack, and his clothes were so dismayed he looked like a man who'd just checked in to the first stop on skid row. However, his words were as clear and cutting as the blade of a knife."I want a divorce," he said. "I won't be treated this way." I suppose I should have stood up for my rights and reminded him of the crappy way he'd been treating me for years.But I didn't.I may have.