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inconsistencies. "I ran into Captain Luke Trussell at the Moby Dick."
    "What time was it?"
    "About ten o'clock."
    "Who were you with?"
    "I was alone."
    "Do you typically go out alone, Ms. Harter?"
    When Kalyna glanced up, Major Ogitani made a placating motion. "I don't mean any censure with that question. It's just something we need to establish. Who was there. Why you were there. How you connected with Captain Trussell."
    Kalyna nodded. "I don't go out alone very often," she said, but that was probably the biggest lie she'd told yet. Now that she was no longer living with her sister, she did almost everything alone. Even when she was having sex she felt alone. Until Trussell...No one seemed to understand her or like her. But she knew it wouldn't be considered "normal" to say she preferred her own company to anyone else's, and she needed to appear as normal as possible.
    "I was assigned to the base only three months ago. You know how it is after a recent move." She smiled as shyly as she could manage. "I needed a break from military life but I wasn't acquainted with anyone well enough to call and ask them to go out with me."
    "I completely understand." Major Ogitani went back to her keyboard.
    "Had you been drinking, Kalyna?"
    "Not a lot--"
    The major interrupted by clearing her throat. "Actually, before you finish answering, let me rephrase that. If I went to the bartender and asked for a copy of your tab--which the defense wil most likely do--what would it indicate?"
    "Two or three drinks."
    "Wine? Beer?"
    "Jack Daniel's and Coke."
    "In a matter of how many hours?"
    "One."
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    Three JDs and Coke in one hour was no small amount of alcohol, but the major didn't comment on it. "And Captain Trussell? Was he also drinking?"
    "Yes."
    "How do you know?"
    Kalyna resisted the urge to claim he was drunk. She wanted to imply that he was more inebriated than she'd been, but the bar tab would show exactly what they'd both had. "He had a beer when I saw him."
    "Where was he when you came in?"
    "At a pool table in back, playing a man I didn't recognize."
    Major Ogitani entered this information in her notes. "So you saw him and then what? Did he approach you?"
    "No, I walked over to say hello. I've been his crew chief for almost the entire time I've been here." That gave her a lot of contact with him, but that contact didn't stop at work. She'd copied his address from various papers she'd seen him fil out, had been to his place when he wasn't home, even taken the spare key from under the mat and made herself a copy. She'd watched him--and followed him more than once. "I was feeling a bit displaced and lonely, so I was happy to see a familiar face."
    More typing. "You're both part of the 60th Air Mobility Wing?"
    "That's correct."
    "Was Captain Trussell as friendly as you'd hoped?"
    "He was preoccupied with his game, but he was nice enough."
    The major's eyes flicked her way. "Did you ever learn the name of the man who was with him?"
    "Yes. Captain Trussell introduced him as Technical Sergeant O'Dell--
    Frank O'Dell."
    Tap, tap, tap... "And how did Sergeant O'Dell treat you?"
    "He was friendly, too." But not half as gorgeous as Luke Trussell.
    Short and stocky, with evidence of acne at an earlier point in his life, Frank paled in comparison to Luke, so much so that Kalyna had all but ignored him.
    The typing stopped. "What happened after you went over to greet Captain Trussell and he introduced his friend?"
    "I chatted with them while they finished their game. Then I asked 35

    Captain Trussell to dance." Unfortunately, O'Dell could testify to this, or Kalyna would've tried to tell everyone that Luke had asked her. He should've asked her. But really handsome men were too selfish. They liked having women want them but never bothered to return the favor. Wham, bam, thank you, ma'am. That was the most a girl could expect from a guy like Luke Trussell.
    But he wasn't going to get away with it. Not this time.
    "How did Captain Trussell respond