“I’m just really scared,” Jade murmured, her words almost lost beneath the steady beat of the knife cutting through potatoes.
“I know.” Rachel didn’t need to look at her friend to see the fear on her face. She hadn’t looked normal, or happy, since the news came that her husband, David, would be shipping out. She had married David knowing it would be a possibility, but that didn’t make the news bearable. That didn’t make it hurt less.
“I just keep wondering what I’m going to do if he never comes home, you know?”
“You shouldn’t think like that.” Rachel snapped her green beans without breaking the rhythm, but her mind wasn’t on the task. “It’s not going to do any good and it won’t happen.”
“But what if it does?”
“Then we’ll deal with it when it happens. But it still won’t do any good to
