Connor: You’re calling flowers your babies?
Ryan: You start knitting hats and we’re calling an intervention.
The smile remained on Ethan’s face as he pulled out of the station.
Damn, he missed the guys. They’d gone from seeing one another every day, saving each other from goddamn bullets, to being scattered across the country.
They’d only gotten together once in the last year, and Tate, Lincoln, and Kolbe, the three who were still active-duty SEALs, hadn’t been able to make it.
The phone kept lighting up with texts. It would probably do that for a while.
As he drove, his mind went back to Maggie again. To the soft sound of her voice. Her lyrical laugh over the line as she talked to Polly.
The beats of his heart did that thing where they sped up and stumbled over one another.
Once upon a time, he’d been so sure he was going to marry the woman. That was before she’ll pulled the floor from beneath his feet and broken up with him.
He gritted his teeth and turned the radio on loud, trying to fill his head with anything but her. He was an hour into the drive when his phone rang, the town mayor’s name on the screen.
Ethan frowned before hitting the Bluetooth on his wheel to answer the call. “Ferris. I’m an hour out. Everything okay?”
“Okay? Son, I just had the least-productive call I’ve ever had with our sheriff about the crime rate in this town.”
“Is a talk with Ward ever productive?”
“No. And it’s making me angry as hell. But not five minutes after the meeting, I got a call from someone who turned my day around.”
Ethan lifted his brows. “Sounds intriguing. Care to share?”
“Actually, I’m calling a town meeting next week. Wednesday evening at six thirty. I need you there, son.”
“You need me, specifically?”
“Yes. Can you make it?”
“Can you tell me what the meeting will be about?”
“I can do better. I’ll tell youeverythingat our meeting later today. I think we’ll both benefit from this. Your SEAL friends too.”
What the hell did his team have to do with anything?
Ferris was being cryptic. But that wasn’t a surprise. The mayor liked to keep his cards close to his chest, but unlike their sheriff, Ferris actually cared about the town and was good at his job.
“I’ll see you in an hour then.”
“Great. Talk soon, son. I’m going to turn this town around. And you’re going to help me.”
When the call ended, Ethan was still frowning. What the hell did Ferris have planned? And how did it involve him and his team?
