Chapter 26
Mac sorted through his pack with practiced speed and thoroughness. What did he need? Really need? Warmth. Rifle. Ammo. He hesitated. His reporter’s notebook. He could hear Janet’s voice asking him when he set out after Howard Parker: Are you a reporter or a Marine on this one? Still a good question, he conceded. For the next few hours, he was a Marine. But he had a life he wanted to come home to — as a reporter who might have found a girl to love. He wasn’t always going to be a Marine on a mission.
Just for the next few hours as he got this sorted out.
He snorted. And then he became the wolf — that was how Stan Warren described him, a wolf who had realized that the sheep had it pretty damn good with their regular meals and warm safe barn. He didn’t don sheep’s clothing to har
