“Yes, and he and Katie demanded as much privacy and as small a detail as we’d allow them. We should have double the number of people we do, which you might disagree with, but we did our best with the info and show of force we had at hand.”
I had to give the kid props for standing up to me, but while he and Hayden might technically be right, it didn’t make me feel any less guilty.
Hayden asking me if I needed a meeting reminded me to call my sponsor, but it would have to wait for a bit. Instead, I sent Cato a text.
Declan
I’m doing okay, but the guilt is eating at me.
Cato
LINK
That’s a list of meetings. Get your ass to one when the rest of the family gets there.
I sighed. He was right. An ounce of prevention, as Nana would say.
Cato
No comment?
Declan
No. I agree. I feel okay. Strong.
Cato
And if shit goes south and something happens to the kid?
Declan
That makes me less okay.
Cato
You’ve had a lot of changes in the last week or so. Significant changes and now this. That’s why you need a meeting.
Declan
I know.
Cato
Then do what you need to do and get to a meeting. Don’t make me fly up there. You know how twitchy Ghost and Mack get when I leave the lair.
I chuckled. I did. The last time wasn’t long after the three of them became a thing. One of the members of the human trafficking ring Cato had escaped from caught sight of him when he was out on his own. Cato narrowly missed getting captured. Ghost and Mack about shit themselves until they had Cato safe and the threat eliminated.
Declan
The world doesn’t need your men going apeshit again. Trying to cover up the rain of hellfire they unleashed was a nightmare of colossal proportions.
Cato
As if your Marine wouldn’t do the same for you and that girl y’all are drooling over.
Declan
Are you tapping into people’s messages again?
