“You can say that twice,” I grumbled.
He grinned. “Just… been a long road.”
I shot him a look. “I hate that Dad joke shit you do.”
He shrugged. “Gotta practice, you know. Never know.”
I froze. “What?”
He didn’t quite meet my eyes when he said his next set of words. “I don’t know, just been thinking.”
“About…?”
He drew in a deep breath before his attention returned to me. “About what’s happening after all this.”
“You mean, how we go back to all of our businesses in Redd Valley and keep trucking as a crew?”
He shot me a look. “You can’t deny that life has changed for a lot of us around here.”
Translation? Everyone’s no longer lonely except me.
“So?” I asked with a shrug.
Cap sighed as he peered over his shoulder as if he checked to make sure no one was around. And then, he patted my shoulder as he stepped closer.
“One day, you’ll understand.”
I blinked. “Understand what?”
But he just chuckled as he backtracked from the room. He pointed at the phone in my hand. “Copy me on the email response, and make sure Ranger has access to print out hard copies. I want to create a file of everything now that we’re moving forward with things.”
“Yeah, yeah, I can do that. But?—”
“Thanks, Brutus,” he said as he raised his hand.
He practically darted down the hallway.
One day, you’ll understand.
These men were insufferable when they got their dicks wet.
“Whatever,” I muttered as I looked at the email one last time.
The email from our contact was simple: we gathered enough evidence for them to start opening up files. I needed to tell them about our latest surveillance efforts. So when my fingers danced over the keyboard, that’s where I started. I told them about the distraction we created to set up cameras and microphones that we’re monitoring from a safehouse, and that we rescued another woman from a cage. I told our contact how we came across dead bodies in the house that we set shit up in, and that we can even go so far as to pinpoint the exact location in the state park where this was taking place.
Apparently, the DOJreallydidn’t like the fact that these assholes were holed up in a state park.
But after responding to the email and forwarding everything to both Cap and Ranger, my phone almost immediately dinged.
With another email from our contact.
“What the fuck?” I muttered.
I barely got my other email sent off before another reply came in, so I knew it had nothing to do with what I had just told the fucker. But when I opened the email, I hardly believed my eyes.
“Caaaaaaap!?” I bellowed out.
My eyes widened with every word as I heard him curse beneath his breath.
