He stared at her. “Of course it’s my fault! I knew every part of what was happening was off, but I was so f*****g complacent, I missed it. I missed it all.”
“You made a mistake,” she said.
“A mistake that took a man away from his two-year-old daughter,” he said bitterly. “That’s not a mistake, Jenny. That’s a f*****g tragedy.”
She was quiet for a second. “Do you really think telling him to watch out would have changed the outcome at all?”
“What?”
“Do you think shouting at him to back up would have saved him?”
Chris’ chest tightened. “You’re asking me if he’d have died anyway?”
She nodded. “I don’t know anything about bombs, Chris, but I do know they have blast ranges and radiuses. I’m guessing you were out of range, but would Tiegert have had time to get clear, even if you’d called
