You simply never bothered looking.”
Mom lowered herself onto the staircase.
“Bennett Air Mobility?”
Dad pulled out his phone.
I watched him search.
Within seconds, his expression changed.
Company profiles.
Aircraft registrations.
Trade publications.
State contracts.
Photos from industry conferences.
One photograph showed me beside Governor Mark Ellison at the opening of a medical transport base in Spokane.
Dad stared at his screen.
“That’s you.”
“Yes.”
He kept scrolling.
Vanessa hurried back to the dining room for her phone and began searching too.
Within minutes, the entire atmosphere of the