Page 74 of My Eternal Light

“Jaxon, you’ll be with Colton, leading our home team. They will be going in the North Building. This is one of the smaller buildings, so timing will be more critical. One room with friendlies, one room with a device, a staging room, a guard’s room and a common room. You won’t have as much time to get those doors locked since the guard’s room is right across the hall from where our people are being held.”

“I’ve got this Meryn,” he reassured her. “I’ll bring Colton online the second he’s in position.”

Meryn turned as if she was about to move on to Nigel, then tilted her head. “What do you mean you’ll bring him online when he’s in position.”

Jaxon chuckled darkly. “I got Rheia to chip his ass last month on a bet. I’m tracking him using GPS.”

Meryn sputtered once, then shook her head. “As you were,” she said, trying not to laugh.

“Nigel, you have our friends from Noctem falls, Adriel will be your point of contact. You have the East Building. It has two rooms with friendlies, a room with a device, a staging room, two guard’s rooms and a common room. Your fun factoid is that whomever is maintaining this place let the camera in the common area die and didn’t do any maintenance. That will be a blind spot for you.”

“I have Micah on another line Meryn, he will be a second set of eyes for me once inside,” Nigel answered.

“Good job.” She leaned down and answered a line on her computer.

“Meryn?”

“Hey Adriel, you will be point of contact with Nigel, he’ll be getting you up to speed and you’ll have to trickle that shit down to the unit leaders.”

“Of course. I’m sending Eva Mae to you.”

“Why?”

“To make me feel better.”

When she didn’t respond he sighed. “And because Sebastian and Magnus insisted.”

“Fine, but she’ll need to be able to move when I say move.”

“She is there for you, my dear.”

“Good luck out there.”

“May the gods guide you,” he said, then disconnected.

“Meryn! Where are people going to be?” Laelia yelled out.

“Auntie! What do we have?” Meryn bellowed.

The queen turned, looking more frustrated than Kincaid had ever seen her.

Before she could answer, Jedrek and Rex gave a quick bow to the queen. “We’re heading out to coordinate the lions to help with incoming.” Rex looked to Meryn, his eyes pleading.

She waved him off. “I got ‘em. We’ll watch for Ari and Declan.”

Looking relieved he followed his father out the door.

Watching them depart the queen answered. “We were prepared to eventually take in the missing people, but we had not anticipated doing it all at once.”

Meryn blinked. “We don’t have room do we?”

The queen shook her head. “Not to sort and shuffle with the speed we will need to.”

“Right.” Meryn tapped away on her keyboard.

“Meryn, darling, what can I do?” a smooth voice answered.

“This is why you’re my favorite Magnus.”

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