An entire week later they still knew nothing. Lorenzo had told her everything right down to the expressions on the faces of the first sergeant, the chaplain, and the base commander that had been sent to his parents' apartment to deliver the news.
On his mother's request they waited for Lorenzo to get there and explained everything they knew. Vincent's entire squad had perished during a battle. Everybody but Vincent had been accounted for. It'd been nearly a week since he'd gone missing, and they'd waited that long to notify them because there'd been an investigation, first to rule out the possibility that Vincent had deserted.
Unlike Rose Lorenzo was convinced Vincent was alive. She didn't want to tell him about the report she'd written in high school, but from her research, more than ni
