Chapter Thirty-Seven
Sitting on the couch with Noah cradledin her arms, JJ found herself smiling.It was almost midnight, but she didn’t care.Time blended at this point since the babies had yet to get on a regular schedule.But they were working on that.
“Today has been a good day, little man,” she told her son.“Kylie’s home.”
He wouldn’t know what that meant, nor would he remember this day the way that she would.It was the day that a family had been reunited after so much pain, so much loss.
A beep sounded to her right, so she glanced over at her laptop, which was perched on the arm of the couch.A red, flashing dot appeared, signaling a location.
“Hmm.”Shifting, JJ reached over, tapped a few buttons to get more information.“You’re on the move again, aren’t you, Allison?”
“Are you talkin’ to yourself in here?”Baz asked as he strolled into the room.
JJ peered up at him, smiled.“Is Naomi asleep?”
He nodded.“For now, anyway.”
If they were lucky, she would sleep for a couple of hours.
“Why don’t I take him?”Baz offered.“I’ll get him settled, and you take care of that.”
She didn’t want to let Noah go, but he was already dozing.
After passing the sleeping baby to his dad, JJ began typing, gathering as much information as she could about Allison Bogart’s location.
“Shit,” she muttered.“This can’t be good.”
Grabbing her phone, JJ was about to dial Brantley’s number, but paused, remembering that he’d put Atticus and Archer in charge of this particular mission.While she wasn’t currently in the office as an active member of the team, she was still a member of the team.It was only right to do things according to protocol.
She dialed Atticus’s number.
“Hey, JJ.What’s up?”
“I just got a ping on Allison’s cell phone.Where are you at?”
“Sittin’ in my truck, waitin’ to see if these fuckers will come out of their hidey hole.”
JJ laughed, wondering whether Atticus knew how much he sounded like Brantley just then.
“Is there somethin’ else we should be doin’?”Atticus asked.
“Hold on.Let me pull up your GPS, so I can see how close you are.”
A few keystrokes later, two more red beacons popped up on the screen, one belonging to Atticus, the other to Archer.
“Is Archer with you?”
“I’m here,” Archer said, his voice coming in clear.
“Hey,” she greeted, still smiling.
“Hey, girl.What’s up?”
That got another laugh bubbling in her chest, and she realized how much she missed the team already.She wasn’t ready to go back to work yet because that would mean leaving her babies, but she did miss them.
“Y’all are about two miles from Allison’s phone,” she told them.“I can send you the coordinates, but it won’t matter until it stops movin’.”
“She’s on the move?”Atticus asked.
