He looked closely at Heidi in her American Army uniform with her warrant officer insignia. The fact that she wore no decorations told him she was rela...tively new to military life and her look of naïve innocence made him doubt her ability to defend anyone.The German officer had more than a few rows of ribbons on his chest and his arms showed his time in service and combat duty to constitute him to be a career officer and not there just for a few years and a quick return to civilian life.Just. Shortly beforeeleven I could here the sound of a vehicle approaching walking to theporch I could see two people in the land rover as it approached the houseand parked.Pete stepped out of the driver's side and nodded to me. "He's had a bitof a skinful," he said moving round the car to open the passenger door."I thought I'd better drive him home, he was in no fit state to do ithimself," he continued."Thanks a lot," I said as I helped him get him out of the car and towardsthe house, inside we. Mark understands his capabilities and security needs better than any of us - which would be the case even if he was as bad at fighting as I am - so he's in charge of security."I added, "I don't want be involved in the minutiae, Paul. PLEASE continue to dump that stuff on Dad. All I want is when I give any of your guys an order, they jump to their feet and run to do it, no matter how strange they might think it is. They don't think about needing permission from anyone else, not even from you.. I knew that the group would have your back and I didn’t want to put them in the middle. I just asked Theresa to help you with the bedroom and deliver the letter. How did you like the changes?” she asked delicately.I looked at her and she was obviously on pins and needles about my reaction.“I haven’t seen it,” I told her flatly.That took her by surprise.“Why not?” she blurted in shock.“I promised I wouldn’t look at it until you revealed it,” I said and busied myself in separating a piece of fat.