The man was leaving something unsaid. Right before he cleared his throat yet again. Mark should’ve been quicker on the uptake as to what was making the Major so nervous, but he hasn’t been quick on anything for the nearly a month.
“I follow the facts to the truth in my investigations,” Mark said. “The absolute truth.”
Not the truth the Military wants me to find.
But he left that part unsaid. His tone said it for him, and the grimace on Harrison’s face told him he heard it loud and clear anyway. It’d been years since Mark had to assert this in the course of one of his investigations. Some could be swayed to make the Military look good, but he had never been one of them, and that reputation always preceded him wherever he went.
“That’s why you’re here,” Harrison said, finding his strong,
