My Father Smirked and Told the Wedding Guests

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He cleared his throat.

“I wasn’t aware of your new assignment.”

“I wasn’t either until this week, sir.”

That was true enough.

The formal paperwork had been in motion for days, but the final wording, and the attached authority, had been locked down forty-eight hours earlier after a storm of phone calls linked to something in the Atlantic we hadn’t yet continue reading …