Previously, in Stormbreak: At a schmoozing party in Colorado, where the CEO of Stormbreak is showing off his pilots to prospective investors…

Dinner was a little rich for Mac. The food was awfully hoity-toity and he didn't know which utensils to use. But he fobbed off the experience with humor, making a game of being schooled by the Bangladeshi representative's wife and sharing politely happy brotherhood with the rep from Ukraine, who was in the same boat. Mac was a big, bruising, front line pilot, after all. He wasn't supposed to be comfortable in the daintier matters of after-six activities.

But God -- er, Ellen Skockley -- was. She seemed as at home as a pea in its pod. She had government purse holders eating out of her hand. She was gracious, effus...

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