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His Wife, His Wingman, His Regret
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Ethan Hale was the name every pilot at North Ridge Air Base looked up to. I was Ava Morgan, his wife and his only flight partner. To earn my ace qualification, I had to complete three final evaluation missions within the review period. I failed all three. I refused to accept it as coincidence, so I followed the access logs, flight records, and maintenance files until every abnormal detail pointed to one person. Chloe Bennett. When I took the evidence to Ethan, I heard him arguing with his deputy, Liam Reed, behind the office door. "You are putting Chloe forward for the ace-track recommendation? She can barely hold steady in a back seat," Liam said, his anger barely restrained. "Ava is my wife and my flight partner. Chloe is different. She has nothing." Standing outside the door, I suddenly laughed. Then I turned around and accepted the return offer from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Before I left, I gave Ethan three things. And he would regret them for the rest of his life.
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His Wife, His Wingman, His Regret Chapter 11
The second half of the foundation reception was a closed demonstration for the new autonomous wingman project.Julian stood at the presentation platform, briefing the board and military representatives on the cooperative control system. When the flight-adaptation segment began, he handed me the remote terminal and said quietly, "This part is yours."I looked at him.He stepped aside and gave me the floor.I took the terminal. My right hand still carried a faint numbness, though it was steady enough now. On the screen, the simulated formation split, regrouped, evaded, and returned under my commands. Above the hall, the full flight path projected across the dark display. The things that had once belonged only to runways and cockpits had found their way back to me in another form.When the demonstration ended, applause filled the room.For a moment, I stood still. Then Julian glanced at me, a faint smile in his eyes."Welcome to the project, Consultant Morgan."I smiled too.Ethan approac
His Wife, His Wingman, His Regret Chapter 10
The favor Julian needed was for me to attend a closed reception hosted by a defense technology foundation.The event was held after hours inside an aviation museum. Retired aircraft hung above the hall, the glass ceiling reflected the deep blue night, and most of the guests wore dark formalwear with security badges pinned discreetly near their lapels.I wore a silver-gray satin suit. The brace on my right hand had finally come off, leaving only a pale support band at my wrist. When I saw myself in the mirror, I paused for a moment.For too many years, I had known myself only in flight suits, pressure gear, combat boots, and helmet-flattened hair. Standing there without waiting for a command, I almost looked like someone with a life outside the cockpit.Julian handed me a glass of sparkling water. "Nervous?""A little." I looked toward the old reconnaissance aircraft in the center of the hall. "This is harder than a runway."He smiled. "Then think of them as moving ground targets."That
His Wife, His Wingman, His Regret Chapter 9
On the way to the base conference room, Ethan read the rest of the file.By the time they reached the door, the rescue identity was no longer a question. The old extraction footage, medical transfer record, and St. Christopher registration all confirmed what the medal had already told him.When the heavy conference room door opened, the room was already full. JAG inspectors, base security, flight medicine, and the accident investigation team sat around the table. The air felt pressed flat.Chloe sat on the other side, pale and rigid.The moment she saw Ethan, her eyes lit up. She stood as if she had found her last chance."Ethan," she said, voice shaking, "tell them this is fake. Ava hates me. She made this up to ruin me."Countless times before, he had stepped in front of her when she cried.This time, Ethan did not look at her.He walked to the head of the table and nodded to the lead inspector.The inspector pushed a file toward him. "Commander Hale, the preliminary evidence against
His Wife, His Wingman, His Regret Chapter 8
Ethan stood in the empty hospital room, the St. Christopher medal clenched in his hand until his knuckles turned white.The resignation and divorce agreement lay on the nightstand. Ava's signature was clean, steady, and without hesitation.Fragments he had ignored began rising in his mind.Years ago, when he had been invited to give a lecture at flight school, a young woman had stayed behind after class. Her eyes had been bright when she asked whether rescue pilots could always bring people out of the dark.He had thought the question naive and answered casually, "Not every time. But we try."Later, at a celebration dinner, someone teased Ava about having liked him for years. She denied it with flushed cheeks, but when he looked at her, her fingers moved instinctively toward the side of her neck, as if something had once hung there.Then there was their first winter after marriage.Ava had leaned against his shoulder and asked softly, "Ethan, do you remember the girl from your first fi
His Wife, His Wingman, His Regret Chapter 1
Before flight school, I had passed polar survival training, open-water ejection recovery, and high-altitude decompression drills. Later, I graduated first in my class and entered North Ridge Air Base as the youngest lead pilot under Ethan Hale's command.One more round of final evaluations, and I wo
His Wife, His Wingman, His Regret Chapter 3
The escort mission was worse than expected.The wind had already picked up outside the remote test site, and turbulence pressed through the valley in stacked layers. When I took off with Dr. Hayes on board, the aircraft bucked hard enough to trigger a short warning tone. I held the stick steady, cut
His Wife, His Wingman, His Regret Chapter 2
The alarm ripped through the operations floor before I could close the DARPA email.I shot to my feet and ran for the classified maintenance bay.I had been grounded for review for the past year, and that section had been under my supervision the entire time. I knew the condition of every aircraft i
His Wife, His Wingman, His Regret Chapter 5
Ethan stayed with Chloe until the sky outside went completely dark.She kept clutching his sleeve, saying that every time she closed her eyes, she was back in that warehouse. In the past, he would have softened because of it. Tonight, all he could see was Ava walking out of the hospital room without
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