Oh, she was, but she was being super aware of this pregnancy. She couldn’t wait to feel the baby move, and find out the sex.
There was no way she was screwing around with the baby’s health, or her own. She couldn’t risk it.
Finn passed D’Artangnan the beer, and they both sipped it.
“Is this going to be an intervention?” Michael asked. “Because I don’t buy that you happened upon me in some coincidence. That one I know isn’t real,” he stated. “What’s up, Gabs?”
She was to the point.
Gabby didn’t lie to her friends, and Michael was exactly that.
“Elizabeth called me. She was upset, and worried about you. She had Ivan ping your location, and she sent me the coordinates to make sure you were okay.”
He sighed.
Damn.
He forgot his watch had a tracker in it. Michael also knew he felt like a dick for making her cry.
That was shitty, and not easy to do.
“I was angry. I’ll apologize later. I now know that she was a victim in this too. I raged against the messenger, when I shouldn’t have. It’s clear that the universe hates me. To put me back on this path…”
Know who wasn’t hearing that?
Graham’s best friend.
Finn was to the point because he knew the man needed to know the truth. Like when he’d been trying to get Gabby’s attention, Graham stepped in to help, so he’d do the same thing.
“He’s still in love with you. He never stopped talking about you or wondering if you were okay.”
Michael didn’t bat an eye.
He also didn’t say anything.
At first.
“Times change,” he stated. “People change. I’m not going back to those moments. He didn’t trust in me, and he ended up breaking my heart.”
Finn was curious.
“Can I ask you, Lad, why did you leave him and not stay? You had gotten out of the military first.”
Michael knew he didn’t owe anyone an explanation, but he felt compelled to share it. Since he never told anyone before, why not share?
“I took a job, a really good job,” he said.
Gabby leaned over to her fiancé and explained what that meant.
“Michael is an Archangel,” she admitted. “That’s the job he’s referring to.”
The very Catholic man blinked. It was crystal clear he was confused.
“Uh, what?”
She explained since she knew where he was taking this, and that was the wrong direction.
“There’s a special group of Marines who are trained and then they are hired to watch important people. Michael was recruited likely right out of service for his skills. He’s been on Blackhawk guard duty for years.”
