The fact that I was sharing a cell with Steve and surviving gave me quite a few points. Sometimes, to keep up her image, during social hours Steve wou...d have a goad and pick on me mercilessly, hurling insults about my background, my money; my supposed revolutionary ideals. Sometimes it felt very real, but I knew that when we were alone together, she would clearly prove that she loved me again.I had been in Galloway for nearly a year when I had my severest test. It came as such things do, at the. .” The screen goes blank, abruptly cutting Captain Tong off mid-sentence.“Communications?” Pellington says, not diverting his eyes from the screen. “What is happening?”“Montana is under attack, sir!”“Damn it,” the admiral swears under his breath. “If it’s a battle they want, then they’re going to get one. All ships, full attack!”“Major?”“Yes, Nash?”“The war has started.”“Then we don’t have much time,” Graves says, looking at his watch.“Time for what?” Spencer asks.“We are on a time schedule,”. Sure. I knew that." I didn't. And she knew I didn't. But she was my best friend and wouldn't rub my nose in it. Not too awful much. Five Thousand Dollars. She trusted me with a credit card good for Five Thousand Dollars."You're hopeless," Neeka said. She got right in my face and put her hands on my cheeks. "She knows she can trust you," she told me in slow measured words, "with the lives... of her children. You proved yourself worthy of that trust. This..." she tapped the card in my hand, ".... “Morning girlfriend.” I say back to her feeling my heart race even faster and that grin in my face grow from hearing her call me girlfriend.“It’s good to hear your voice.” She sounds breathless as she speaks almost like she has been running, but I don’t think about that as her words mirror my own thoughts.“So I’ll be at your hotel in a couple minutes.” She tells me making me think about how she sounds breathless and making me ask myself if she had been running to get here so soon after I wake.