A Question of Honor

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Author: Lindsay McKenna
remembering where she’d heard his name. Her eyes rounded. “My God, you aren’t from the Trayhern family with the traitor, are you?” Kit saw Noah’s eyes go dark with hurt, then anger, and she instantly regretted how she’d framed her question.
    Noah’s hands stilled over the reports spread before him. He struggled with the grief and loss of Morgan, and then the anger that she or anyone would dare call his older brother a traitor. Kit was just one more person to parrot what she’d been fed by the press. She hadn’t grown up with Morgan, didn’t know how loyal he was or how much integrity he possessed. Wrestling with an avalanche of stripped feelings, Noah whispered tautly, “Yes, Morgan is my brother.” Funny, he never could say was. He didn’t accept that Morgan was dead. He couldn’t. And neither did anyone else in his family.
    Kit placed a hand across her mouth, the huskiness in his voice tearing at her. “Oh, no…”
    Noah misinterpreted her reaction as negative and sighed roughly. “We might as well hash this out right now.” He tried to prepare himself for her outrage at having to work with the brother of a supposed traitor. He’d gone through this scenario for five years now. Would it never end?
    “No…I mean, I’m sorry. It’s just that the memory hit me so hard and out of nowhere,” Kit blurted. She desperately wanted peace between them, not more dissension. Some of the hardness left his eyes, replaced with grief. Kit ached for him, realizing the pain he’d carried because of his infamous brother. “It must be awful to have endured the names and blame for something you didn’t do.”
    Noah searched her flushed features, her eyes soft and dove gray. He’d expected anger and accusations from Kit. Instead she was desperately trying to mend the fence between them. His voice came out low and tortured. “First of all, my family and I don’t consider Morgan a traitor. He was a captain in the Marine Corps in charge of a company of men in Vietnam. Something happened over there, and his entire company was wiped out, except for him and one other man.”
    Kit bit her lower lip, feeling the magnitude of his anguish. “Everything I read in the papers and saw on television said he deserted his men, leaving them to die. They said he deserted to North Vietnam—the other survivor swore he ran away.”
    Noah shook his head, as if trying to shake off an invisible millstone he carried. “Morgan would never desert anyone. Our family prides itself on taking care of those under us. He was raised to be loyal to a fault, and we feel he’s been made a scapegoat for something that went wrong. My father, who was a general in the air force at the time, tried to investigate, but he was stopped at every turn. That’s why we believe Morgan was somehow framed.” Raising his chin, Noah caught and held her gaze. “There’s no way to prove it. Besides, it’s the past, and we’ve got to work in the present.”
    “I remember something about your family having a two-hundred-year military tradition. Every child of each generation went into one of the services.”
    “That’s right. In my generation, Morgan went into the Marine Corps. I went into the Coast Guard and our younger sister, Alyssa, went into the navy as a pilot. She’s in flight training in Pensacola right now.”
    Kit saw the pride in his eyes, heard the pride in his voice for his family and its name. “If Morgan didn’t desert, then your whole family must be bearing a terrible burden.”
    “We’ve all paid for it in some way,” he muttered, unwilling to discuss it any further. “But I guess everyone has his or her personal set of problems to carry around.”
    “Some have more than others,” Kit said softly, overwhelmed at the immensity of Noah’s load.
    His eyes bore into hers. “Is my family history going to be a problem between us?”
    Shakily Kit rubbed her hands together, unable to meet his gaze. “No,” she whispered tightly, “it
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