My father-in-law and his eight sons b/ea/t my pregnant wife until she lost our baby… then laughed outside her ICU door, mocking me as a “worthless, broke soldier.” They had no idea I wasn’t just any soldier-I was the commander of a black-ops hit squad. As my phone buzzed with a message reading “Target confirmed,” I looked at them and whispered…
multiple defensive fractures to both forearms, as well as severe internal hemorrhaging.”
He paused, a jagged lump forming in his throat. He stared intensely at his digital clipboard, desperately avoiding the void in my eyes. “We… we could not save the pregnancy, Captain. The trauma localized to the abdomen was entirely too severe. I am so sorry.”
