“You’ll also be the one to fill them in on the plan.”
Brutus’s head fell back. “Ugh. I hate talking.”
All of us had a good laugh at that before Cap raised his hand in the air, commanding our attention.
“All right,” he said once we all settled down. “All in favor of everything we’ve discussed, raise your hands.”
All of us shot our hands into the air without hesitation.
“Good,” Cap said as he lowered his. “Range?”
“Yes, boss.”
“That’s enough drone-flying for today. Get back at it tomorrow evening, though. I want to map this out a few times so we’re certain this is the building we want to hit. If the heat signatures stay numerous after, say, four more flyovers, then we’ll hit that building.”
“Can do, Cap,” Ranger said.
“The rest of you?” he asked as he turned to face us. “Church dismissed.”
And all of us clapped with our president three times.
With each of the thunderous claps banging around inside of my ribcage.
We were almost there.
We were almost at the finish line.
We just had to hang in there a little while longer.
27
DOC
A FEW DAYS LATER
My dearest Elizabeth,
I scribbled the line out and tried again.
My lovely Liz,
I snarled as I scratched it out and balled up the paper. I tossed it into the trash can on the other side of the room that I occupied.
I watched the paper ball bounce off the rim.
I sighed heavily as I went back to staring at the journal paper.
It was hard, being away from the girls. King’s crew was watching over them these last few days, taking shifts and never leaving the general area so that no one could track our movements back to the girls. Now that we knew we were being watched and traced, we had to take more precaution than ever.
Which meant not telling the girls that we weren’t coming back.
My Liz,
I smiled softly as I continued on with my latest letter.
I read all about your escapades with the girls. Sounds like Amanda and Anna are really giving King’s guys hell. Tell them to keep it up.
I chuckled as I continued on with my note.
