“I believe his name was Leo.”
“He"s loose.”
Shutting her eyes, Melissa took a sip of water and gave herself a moment to process that. “He"s loose,” she said, spinning around. “And since we"re not allowed to go home, it means he knows where we live.”
Her father looked up at her with that frigid gaze he had probably used on suspects in the interrogation room. “It"s necessary,” he replied. “I don"t want Leo getting anywhere near you girls.”
“Why wasn"t I told?”
“You"re just a cadet, Melissa-”
Perhaps someone else would have reacted with a little more passion – she could see Anna throwing her cup across the room or something like that – but Melissa was content to express herself with a heavy sigh. Calmness usually earned you more respect. Or at the very least, it made people listen to yo
