“Okay, fine, I’m as scattered as a squirrel on the ground covered with endless acorns. But now I’m focused. What’s up? Hit me with it. Let’s do this.”
“Jennifer,”he growled.
“I’ve been getting my butt kicked at a Morse code game by a four-year-old while trying to keep my daughter from saying potty words because I keep saying them because said four-year-old is beating me, all while being held captive in the compound of power-hungry psychopaths. This is as focused as you’re gonna get, B.”Jen was trying really hard to reach for her calm adult self. Then she remembered that she didn’t have a calm adult self and threw that plan out the proverbial window.
“We can get you guys out.”
WTH.“Why didn’t you lead with that?”Holy rolling pixie babies! After nearly three years, did the dude not know her better than that?
“Sally’s necklace,”he continued, ignoring her question. Okay, so he did know her pretty well.“It’s blessed by the Great Luna and can bring down the wards that are keeping the fae from flashing in to get you. Nissa, Cyn, and Riven have all tried to flash, but there’s a ward up. Her necklace has the ability to take it down temporarily.”
“Okay. How?”
“We don’t know.”
“Naturally.”
“Tell her. She can figure out what to do. The Great Luna would not have intended for her to have that necklace if she wasn’t going to be able to know how to use it.”
“It’s annoying when you make good points when I’d rather you just have the actual answer,”Jen grumbled.
“I love you, too,”he said. Jen could picture his luscious lips tilted up as his chest rumbled with a deep chuckle. Gah, she missed her man.
“How will you guys know when the ward is down?”Jen asked, realizing it would be pointless to take the ward down if no one even knew it was gone.
“You can tell me.”
“How willIknow the ward is down?”
“We don’t know that either.”
“So, what you’re telling me is that you know Sally’s trinket should allow Peri and her crew to flash in and get us, yet you have no idea how that is going to happen or how you will know it is happening?”
“Exactly.”
“Sounds like our kind of op. Don’t worry, B, I totally got this.”She totallydidn’thave this, but she was not about to admit it because that was like giving up, and Jen didnotgive up. She gave hell.
“Jennifer, I need you to focus again.”
“I am focused. I’m focused on giving the Order hell.”See, hell-giver, right here, people.
“I love you,”he said again, but this time he was completely serious. She could feel his love and worry through the bond.“I need you and Thia back. Help Sally figure this out because I’m at my breaking point. Do you understand?”
“Do I understand that you’re to the point of turning your wolf loose on this compound and bringing anyone with you who wants to go on a blood-spraying killing spree?”
“Yes.”
“I completely understand, babe. I got this. Sally’s got this. And Jacque doesn’t know it, but she’s about to be with her alpha and leading her pack, kicking ass and taking names while she does it.”
“That’s my girl,”he said softly.
“Love you, B.”
“I know. I feel it every second of every day. See you soon.”
“Absolutely.”
Jen felt him pull back, but he still stayed present in her mind. She walked back to the wall and began tapping away. They were getting out. But before Jen left this compound, she was going to take out as many of the asswipes who’d been a part of her daughter's abduction as possible. They’d obviously never heard of mama bear, or in this case, mama wolf syndrome, but she was going to educate them, thoroughly.She kept that thought far from Decebel.
