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Maura was curious.

“Are you back, Adder?” she asked. “Once I work you into the plan, it’s kinda set in stone.”

The woman understood how difficult the Major’s job was.

“Count me in. I liked being part of the team. I don’t want to be a loner anymore. I like having a family, and Jinx was right. You can always come home, and I’m home with you nuts.”

Maura gave her a fist bump.

“Welcome,” she said. “We love having you on our team, and as a heads-up…you’re just as nutty as the rest of us lunatics.”

She found that funny.

“Are the nuts running the asylum?” she asked.

Oh, you could say that.

Know who wasn’t as enthusiastic about her being back and it official?

The baby daddy.

Dakota just closed his eyes.

“This is going to be a long seven months. I don’t know if I’m going to make it.”

Rogue and Jagger laughed.

Yeah, welcome to their world.

It was brutal loving a badass woman.

And full of worry.

Chapter Eleven

Chartres

Mid Afternoon

Regrouping Time

T he whole way back, Maura was quiet as she let Jagger drive. Her military boots were on the dashboard, as she was writing in a notebook. That was something she did often when she was working on a plan.

While it might just look like numbers and equations, somehow, to the Major, it translated into a statistically accurate plan.

Someone’s brain was just wired differently.

The Major had to math all the damn time.

That was her thing.

Everyone in the vehicle was silent, too, allowing her to get some work done. They knew damn well that they were now up against the clock.

There were kids in play, and they’d be dead before they could get to them if they wasted even a single, solitary second.

That couldn’t happen.

This was going to take speed, precision, and accuracy. All of which were the Major’s specialty.

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