Sarge and Will“You’re up late.” Sarge yawned.
“Crap at work today. Kept me awake. Wanted to talk anyway. How’d it go today?”
“Work? Good crowd. A few drunks. Comes with the territory.”
“No—I mean the trip to the VA.”
“Oh, that.” Stripped to his skivvies, Sarge slipped under the covers next to Will. Sarge gave his husband a kiss. “You and Estrella shouldna worried. The kid’s a good soldier.”
“You and your Marine stuff,” Will said.
“Twenty years is hard to get out of your system. Even if I wanted to. But it’s parta me, like I told Shelly. And today, he saw how important it is, I think. You know what he said? I told him if anythin’ got to be too much for him, he should leave the room. No use in the guys seein’ him get all teary-eyed or sick-lookin’. Well, he said he’d wanted to leave so
