Macy appreciated Tim’s help. The broken part was inside the top of the helicopter, close beside the main rotor assembly. She’d have had to run down to the ground a dozen different times for a tool or waste time scrounging through her spares pouch for a washer or some other small part. With Tim’s help she was able to sit here and work; and try not to think about the fire crawling toward them.
One nice thing about Tim was that he listened to her—something Billy had never done. And let her take the lead, which he’d also done any number of times while they’d been making love—yet another black mark against Billy.
She finally managed to pop free the last bushing on the broken linkage, it had been badly bent when it failed and she’d been trying desperately to get a control response as she’d aut
