Yeah, no pressure there.
Only, Graham would do it for a few reasons. First, he knew it had to be done, and D’Artangnan was damn good at things like this. He’d watched him dive a few times.
Secondly, it made him feel secure since he was being included in the man’s plans, and they were back to being a team.
That was something he knew would keep them both safe.
They had trust in that.
Gabby was worried.
“Are you sure, Michael? You got some of the bones out,” she asked. “Did you get the skull?”
He nodded.
“Yeah, that’s when it started to go wonky,” he admitted. “The second the skull was out, a mist rolled in, and it got weird.”
No.
Shock.
There.
Everyone was silently weighing the options, and he reassured them again.
“I can do it if I have backup. Going in alone was dangerous. I couldn’t see what was above or below. Now, I’ll have extra eyes. I trust Gryphen to keep me safe, too.”
And he would.
There were three soldiers there. They could pull this off.
“Do you want to do that first?” Gabby asked.
Michael wanted to stay on the couch with his fiancé for the rest of the day, but that wasn’t happening. What he wanted and what he was getting were two different things.
But he did have some time.
Finn wasn’t back yet from making the call, so they could stay here for now.
So, he pointed at the book that Gabby had put on the coffee table. It was the journal found in the tunnel they’d just evacuated.
“How about we go over that first?” Michael suggested. “You know, in case it tells us who is in the water. Maybe we’ll get lucky. Then, I can skip that. Elizabeth will just have to have bones in her lake. She won’t be upset with me if I can’t do the dive.”
Then again, he’d torn into her and had yet to call and apologize to her for that. She might never speak to him again for all he knew.
And that broke his heart a little.
Because of her, even if she didn’t try to meddle, what she’d done by sending him here had given him the greatest gift in the world.
His heart was back.
Now, having to tell her he wasn’t leaving here was going to be difficult. He genuinely loved his job, and how well he was paid.
But his life was with Graham, and if his fiancé wanted to stay here, then Michael wasn’t leaving Scotland.
Gryphen laughed at what Michael said. Elizabeth being told there were bones in the lake?
PRICELESS.
