Celeste scooped up a spoonful of porridge and ate it slowly, her tone calm and even.
"Even if you're not eating with me, it doesn't mean you get to run off on a mission now. Didn't it ever cross your mind why they left you behind and no one else?"
Alice Morgan frowned. "What are you trying to say?"
"It means you're not exactly indispensable to Blue Eagle. Yet here you are, blaming me for it."
"You-"
Alice's temper flared. "You're full of it. Do you have any idea how good my shooting scores are? Do you know my sniper hit rate? There's no one in Blue Eagle touching my numbers right now."
"Yeah, and yet you're stuck here, making me breakfast and not even getting a hot meal for yourself."
That one stung. Alice looked like she could chew nails.
She glared at Celeste fo
