Chapter 15 - Miller Meets Me After Recovery
Six months after Highway 9, Brian Miller asked to meet.
We sat in a coffee shop.
He looked younger without the uniform.
“I should’ve stopped him.”
“You couldn’t know he was going to fire.”
“I knew he was escalating.”
That was different.
Miller admitted he had seen Decker intimidate drivers before.
He had told himself senior officers knew better.
He had worried about probation, evaluations, and being labeled disloyal.
Then he watched me fall against the passenger seat.
“I keep hearing the shot.”
“So do I.”
He looked at me.
“I’m sorry.”
I believed him.
Then I told him something my first battalion commander taught me.
“Loyalty isn’t protecting someone from consequences. Sometimes loyalty
is stopping them before they create consequences nobody can undo.”
Miller nodded.
He had cooperated fully.
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That did not make him fearless.
It meant fear had not won.
