Chapter 88: Tell Them, Haze

“You’re Commander Richard Sterling?” I repeated like a halfwit, the words tumbling out of me like I’d forgotten how to function. I must’ve looked like an idiot—eyes wide, lips parted, gawking at him.

The man across from me inclined his head with the kind of firmness only a man who’d commanded thousands could muster. “I am,” he said smoothly. “So you do recognize me after all.”

I nodded, my thro