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“What the hell am I doing here?”
Drake had though to have a friendly chat with two-star Major General Arkin Kavanaugh. But when he’d brought Campos along, despite Drake telling him to leave all of his sycophants and aides out of this meeting, he decided he was feeling far less friendly.
As Drake himself had climbed to the highest levels of the Pentagon, he’d landed in those exact same chairs more and more often. Frankly, of the four, he preferred the one on the right that neither man had taken. It had let him face his predecessor more directly—General Thomas Tadman had always faced toward that seat.
Drake looked down at his own feet and now realized why the former chairman had sat that way. He’d always propped his feet on the same drawer that Drake did. That was a comforting thought
