Treason (2016)
“He’d asked her to meet him in his Pentagon office for a noon lunch. Knowing that General Frank Grant abhorred tardiness and trying to make amends for appearing late at Decker Lake’s funeral, Brooke had arrived at 11:40 a.m. for their meeting. That had been a half hour ago.
As she sat in his outer office, her mind wandered to when she’d visited the Pentagon as a child. General Grant hadn’t been eager to have a ten-year-old tagging along even if it was Take Our Daughters Or Sons To Work Day. But ...Aunt Geraldine had insisted. The couple had agreed to raise Brooke after her parents were killed during the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center. General Grant already had two children, both boys, and while he had been comfortable fathering them, he had no idea how to raise a girl, especially one as clever and mischievous as Brooke had been.
On the day of her first Pentagon visit, General Grant had passed her off to an aide who, in turn, had handed her over to a Pentagon tour guide. For several hours, Brooke had walked every inch of the nearly seventeen miles of corridors in the pentagonal building.MoreLess
As she sat in his outer office, her mind wandered to when she’d visited the Pentagon as a child. General Grant hadn’t been eager to have a ten-year-old tagging along even if it was Take Our Daughters Or Sons To Work Day. But ...Aunt Geraldine had insisted. The couple had agreed to raise Brooke after her parents were killed during the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center. General Grant already had two children, both boys, and while he had been comfortable fathering them, he had no idea how to raise a girl, especially one as clever and mischievous as Brooke had been.
On the day of her first Pentagon visit, General Grant had passed her off to an aide who, in turn, had handed her over to a Pentagon tour guide. For several hours, Brooke had walked every inch of the nearly seventeen miles of corridors in the pentagonal building.MoreLess
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