Page 32 of Allegiance

Her intent was to raise the baby alone and keep her little family intact.

Also, not to tell the baby daddy.

Oh, boy.

How could this go wrong?

Despite her full stop when it came to the man, they all knew that she was in love with Dakota.

And they knew that Dakota was an idiot for not just telling the woman he was head over heels in love with her.

On top of that, they all knew that Boone had jacked this up by giving Dakota the WRONG Voodoo bracelet.

It was an honest mistake, after all. The beads were the same color, and while he was trying to get his wife pregnant, the Voudon had knocked up a mercenary Marine instead.

Maybe Jagger should get a bracelet for that little ‘impregnate the Major’ mission.

“Well, we have to do something,” Jinx said, pouring them each a cup of coffee from the massive pot that the Major had just made. “She’s two blocks away, and we need him to figure this out.”

Both Gene and Tommy laughed.

“You guys are giving him too much credit,” Gene said. “Dakota needs to be hit with it so it’s obvious. He’s not good at figuring out things on his own.”

Ehhh, he wasn’t wrong.

“I vote we just tell him,” Tommy said. “If I had a kid, I’d want to know.”

Stella agreed.

“I second that option. This is going to blow up in our faces when he figures it out. Dakota is thick, but he’s not an idiot.”

Everyone who didn’t agree with the ‘just tell him’ plan stared at her like she was batshit insane.

Yeah, she wasn’t the crazy one.

Telling Dakota anything was a battle on a good day. Telling him that a wayward sperm found an egg in a woman he’d only banged twice and then sent away?

Lordy.

That would be a bad day for all of them. Mr. Moody would make them work for it.

Zayn sipped his coffee and shook his head.

“You think that we should tell Dakota, the most volatile person in New Orleans, that he knocked a woman up? Do you remember the shitstorm that happened when Sarah told him she wanted a baby?” Zayn asked.

Rogue laughed.

Oh, boy did they ever.

“He refused to have sex unless she took her pill in front of him each morning. He used condoms, pulled out, and contemplated a vasectomy to ensure that they never had kids.”

Yeah, they recalled.

“Well, we’re a little beyond that,” Gene said. “He’s going to have a kid, and I have faith in the man. He’d want to be part of the child’s life.”

Now, they were staring at him like he was loco.

“What? Procreation is part of our DNA, and it is why Jagger is all over the Major. He can’t help himself. She has tits, and he likes them.”

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