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“You need a new hobby besides complaining,” Simi grumbled.
“I need new hobbies because I’d rather not see y’all’s breasts?” I asked. “That’s comical.”
“You need hobbies because that’s all you do is complain,” Zip argued.
I nearly groaned.
“I have plenty of hobbies!” I argued with Zip.
“You don’t,” she said. “You literally sit here all day, do the circus’s books, talk shit with Autry, and eat. Since we dropped down to three days a week, you literally do nothing. You don’t go out. You fly to go hang out with Autry and his friends.”
Crimson, who knew the whole story of what I did since her husband wasn’t going to lie about what he was doing, gave me a look.
She wanted me to share with my sisters, but I didn’t want to. I didn’t want them to worry about me when I was gone.
Zip did have a point, however. My whole identity was the circus.
I didn’t sit here all day, though.
Contrary to what they believed, I did have a life outside of the circus. Just not one that they’d approve of.
Other than thinking and worrying about them, or their kids—which was a full-time job in and of itself—I also worked with Autry and Winston, Crimson’s husband, on other things. More clandestine, never going to tell my sister things.
Autry was a former Navy SEAL who had started working at our circus as a coordinator/whatever we needed at the time person when we moved the circus to a free-standing facility in Dallas, Texas.
Whereas I’d spent twelve years as a Marine before bugging out to start working with my sisters at this godforsaken circus.
It was when I’d met Winston for the first time, and he’d offhandedly brought up the fact that he could always use more experienced manpower, that Autry and I both began working with him to rescue kids. And though it’d started out as just giving a hand here and there when Winston needed it, it’d turned into a whole-ass team of men who knew what they were doing and could get the job done no matter what.
It was funny, because in the beginning, it’d been one SEAL and one Marine.
Now it was four SEALs and one Marine. Though, we were considering adding a police officer to the mix. He was still contemplating logistics so, we were waiting to see where he went with it.
The team consisted of Coffey, Simi’s husband, Autry, me, and two of Autry’s old SEAL team, Callister Green and Duke Miller.
And as the SEALs from Autry’s former team retired, more and more of them were showing interest in joining the cause.
I wouldn’t be surprised to have the majority of his old team after a few more years. There were a few Navy lifers on his old team who might never leave.
But most of them were getting older, and there would be a point where they’d be forced to find a different job in the Navy, and the men didn’t strike me as ones who would be okay with being forced to sit at a desk for the rest of their life.
“When do you leave?” Zip asked from the table where she was sitting breast feeding her baby.
I looked at my watch. “Now.”
“What are y’all doing this time?” Tony asked.
“Golfing,” I lied.
But that would explain the big ass bag I was leaving with. Maybe they’d think it was golf clubs instead of tactical gear.
“Boring,” Val grumbled.
Linny, her daughter, popped her head around her mother’s chair and ran at me like a linebacker.
For being the child of two doctors, she acted like she was the child of two mercenaries set on ruling the world.
I picked her up, smothered her in kisses, and then tossed her to Felix, who caught her easily, very much used to our game.
