"Don?... Son, are you all right?" my mother asked as she and Tanya watched me. But I barely heard her. I was going into a reverie... a very, very dark one.
I finally climbed back out of it. "Commander, your eyes are flashing fire. What is it?" asked Tanya. I knew I couldn't say it out loud, as her fiancé was Jack Muscone, and I was remembering his words at the crime scene the night before... that the Feds had leaked information about me giving them info from McGinty's Materials.
"You do realize," I said, "that if she had put that out there, or if people become aware of it, then my life and my family's lives are in extreme danger. Grave danger."
"Is it that bad?" Tanya asked, her voice sounding skeptical... and worried. I looked at her as if she were in orbit around another planet.
"Are
