He’d die for her mistake, whatever the hell it had been.
“Oh, for f***s sake. You can’t do this.”
Her words exploded out of her, escaping before she could censor them.
“If I’ve done something wrong, punish me. Not him.”
me. “I think you need to remember who you’re talking to, Major Fielding.”
Major Fitzgerald’s voice seemed to whip out in the sudden silence of the room. Even Garry, on the other side of the thick plate glass, fell silent as though he could sense the standoff taking place mere feet from him.
“Dr. Stephens violated one of our prime directives within the Project and allowed himself to get too close to his subjects.” Fitzgerald’s lip curled as he raked a scathing glance over her, leaving her in no doubt about his feelings.
She barely managed to catch her answering snarl
