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Carter, who had stayed quiet until now, leaned forward, placing his muscular forearms on the conference table. “Up to a point, I agree. Both Mallory and Becky are pregnant and so it is extra tricky. But here’s the thing. I think, once we get the information out there, it’s going to be a rough go to make it look like they are just having a party and we are all in attendance. I doubt we will get the response we are looking for. I propose, the night before, several of us slide into the house, hopefully undetected, so we are on site. Then, everyone who is still home, bring our women at the appointed time. Use some of the other teams to drive some of the women.”
Jac nodded. “Actually, that is a great idea. Then we have someone hidden in the back who, once we are a short distance away, can drive our vehicles further away after we exit. That will allow us to come in from the ground.”
“Yes, but I think it’s important that they see Monroe and me stay. It’s Monroe’s house, and Becky is pregnant, so if anyone is watching, I don’t leave Becky home alone for any reason. I have a bodyguard that is usually on duty for her.”
“You don’t think you should just have a bodyguard and not you?” asked Kaden.
“I wouldn’t normally send him on a Saturday to watch over Becky. If we want them to think they are really vulnerable, we go as usual.”
“Now, for protection with the women, we can work out the actual details, but Levi and Mark can go in at night.” Jac looked over to see if Becky needed any clarification. She shook her head. He continued. “Callie will go armed. Finley and Charlotte as well. The rest, we will be ready to come in when signaled, so don’t be heroes.”
Becky smiled. “Heroines.”
Jac raised his eyebrow. Ivy giggled. It broke the ice in an otherwise stress-filled room.
Mark added. “I want to run scenarios for a few days and then prepare the girls, so this Saturday is cutting it close.”
Garrett shook his head. “No, I think if we are doing it, we do it fast so they don’t have much time to pull together a good response. They will be flying by the seat of their pants. We can do this in our sleep.”
“Agreed,” said Jac. “Each of you will work with your partner to help them understand how things will go down. Cash, you brief the gate guards and the house security about the safe room where the children and Shay will be. You choose your crew.”
“Okay, I’ll dig around and make it look like I’m encrypting this invitation, but it will be something his web guy can figure out. I have to make him work at it or he’ll know it isn’t real.” Sharlee made a few notes and leaned back in her chair. “And the invitation is going to say Sunday, then, on Friday, I’ll change the time to Saturday. Shorten his timeline to prepare. If he is as anxious to make this happen, he’ll think one less day of prep won’t hurt.”
Cash nodded. “He isn’t and never has been an operative, so he doesn’t know. Success is in the planning.”
“Agreed,” said Garrett. “Okay, anything else?”
“Um, yeah,” said Mallory. “Is this going to be a pretend shower?”
“I think that would be best. We have to be on guard. We’ll give you a proper shower soon,” said Callie.
Mallory nodded. “Good. I guess we still need to get things that look like we are having a real shower.”
“Good point,” said Monroe.
“We’ll grab things. How about 2pm for the shower?” asked Sharlee. “Saturday. Ignore the Sunday on the invite.”
“Perfect,” said Mallory.
“And what about Darcy and Oakley? They aren’t here. Or the Colonel or Ryker,” said Becky.
Jac turned to Becky. “I’m going to talk to them later today, but why don’t you give Oakley a call before the email invitation goes out, so they are up to speed? Use your personal cell. Don’t share intel, but give her a personal invitation. Leave Darcy to Ben.”
“Okay.”
Levi leaned over and kissed Finley’s cheek in full view of everyone in the room. Cash was always touching her in public, and she seemed to have gotten used to that. Levi felt they had reached a much closer spot in their relationship, but he had trouble being publicly demonstrative. To his surprise, she didn’t say a word and in fact acted like it was nothing unusual, but he knew differently. Levi considered that a huge win. Now to end this so she could relax and they could go back to how things were or how they wanted them.
Chapter 17
Charlotte called from the front room of their house. “Jac, I found him.”
“Where is he?” asked Jac as he entered the room carrying Storm. He was followed by Garrett, Monroe, Cash, Levi and Finley.
“What do you mean, ‘where is he?’” Sharlee asked.
“Baby, you just said you knew where Kaz was.”
“No, not Kaz.” She sighed. His confusion was evident.
