Well, so much for not busting her balls. Ethan had done that, and then some.
Yeah, he felt like shit over this.
Ethan moved away from Gene.
“I’m coming.”
Gabe stopped him.
“No. You’re not.”
He didn’t relent.
“You seriously can’t tell me not to come to my wife when she needs me!” Ethan said. “Gabe! Come on! She’s on her own out there, and this is escalating!”
He was honest.
“Ethan, she’sBARELYholding it together. She just watched Jet die. She nearly saw Raphael and Uriel die. She killed a spy. Right now, she needs to get back on track. You coming here isn’t going to help her.”
Gabe knew his best friend, and he knew that Ethan had a temper. That Elizabeth didn’t call them first made him suspect that the tension was already there. That she didn’t want to talk to them…
Something was up.
So, despite his relationship with Ethan, he protected Elizabeth.
At.
All.
Costs.
Ethan went red.
Gene reached him again, and this time, he put his hand on his back to calm him.
“Babe,” he said. “She would have asked us to come if she wanted us there.”
Finally.
Someone was thinking straight.
“That right there,” Gabe said. “Agent Cantrell, you’re the clear-headed one. No one is to come here. For all you know, that is exactly what this nut planned.”
He was right.
Well, about some of that. Gene wasn’t clear-headed. He was panicking just as much.
Gabe continued.
“We are having a meeting, and then she wants to see Jet. She needs to see him.”
Ivan was on his tablet.
“I’m calling up the remaining Marines,” he stated. “There aren’t that many more at the house. We’ll lock it down and get them to her. We’re moving them out. We believed they’d be safe, and if they were behind the gate, they would be. I won’t risk any more of them. It’s time to bring them home to us.”
No one argued.
Devon was chipping away at her protection.
