Page 250 of Allegiance

Not for Maura.

Not for the team.

Chevy was cleaning up any loose ends, and that was making this almost impossible to catch him.

She knew then that there was no choice.

She was going to have to implement the plan.

And that sucked.

* * * H U N T E R S * * *

Chartres Street

Home Base

Six A.M.

As Jinx paced, she was worried. What she had wanted to do was go with the team, but the Major gave her orders, and she was specific.

She didn’t know what she was planning for later, but it was crystal clear that they were going to be doing something.

What?

It was anyone’s guess.

What she did know was that Remington had shown up before dawn, and he looked like hell.

Now, he was drinking coffee and saying absolutely nothing.

“Uh, are you okay?” she asked, as she waited for the call from her husband to tell her they were good.

“Sure,” he said.

Jinx sat next to him.

She knew he was lying.

When you were broken, you could spot another broken person a mile away.

This man was a mess.

Oh, he might look pulled together, but she knew he was doing battle with something deep inside of him.

“If you’d like to talk about it…”

He stopped her.

“I don’t.”

She shrugged.

“Understood, but let me just put this out there. It’ll be the last thing I say about it.”

He listened.

“You’re here to heal. You’re not going to be able to do that if you don’t trust someone. Any one of us will be there for you, but you have to put your faith in us like we did in you when you showed up.”

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