June knew something had gone terribly wrong the moment Rick walked through the door. Setting aside the book she was reading, she immediately got up and walked over to her husband.
"What happened?" June asked, twisting her wedding ring nervously. Rick avoided June's gaze, shrugged off his jacket, and placed it on a coat hanger. "Exactly what we feared," he said with a dead tone to his voice. "They resisted. And one of our new men…he killed him. Boomerang,"
The image of the scruffy Aussie floated through June's mind. Wrapping her arms around Rick, June said, "Baby, I'm so sorry," And she was. She knew how much the Task Force X inmates meant to him.
Rick returned the gesture by holding onto his wife tightly. "It wasn't supposed to be like this," he said. "They were supposed to be sent back to Belle Reve. Nobody was supposed to die,"
"I know," June said soothingly, feeling his pain as if it were her own. "I know,"