The Story That Was Sold
Years earlier, the ambush had happened in a village whose name never made the news.
Whitaker was miles away.
Protected.
Ethan and Ajax weren’t.
Ajax alerted first — a wire barely visible under dirt.
The patrol stopped.
Lives were saved.
Then the secondary blast detonated anyway.
Ethan took the shrapnel.
Ethan shielded the dog.
