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Thomas kept looking back for Eva in the dark water. He hoped he wasn’t being too obvious about it. He’d even risked putting the small glow light on his tank, which meant he had to make sure he was always the last diver so that none of the SEALs would notice. With Taffy’s sonar, the light shouldn’t be necessary, but he wanted to give Eva every chance to find him.
The plan was for them all to meet up right before making landfall at the atoll base. By then it would be too late for any of the SEALs to demand Eva turn back. Thomas would give her the trap for Romeo that Ruben had made earlier—which he now had folded up in his go bag attached to his tank—and then he and Eva would presumably part ways. Thomas was already assigned to the hostage extraction team—the one that was going to
