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“Quite the contrary, from what I have seen. She stays with him as much as she can. She wanders off with you, but the minute Ben walks in the room, it is a beacon for her.”
“Fine, but I’m responsible for Darcy. It’s my fault she’s in Rodney’s sights.”
Cash shook his head as he laid down. “Would you listen to yourself? No, you rescued her because she said she wanted out. You protected her and now we are keeping her safe until this is all over. Then, if she wants, she can leave to wherever she wants to go.”
Finley sighed and ran her hand over Cash’s warm skin. “I know. I just feel responsible.”
“You want something to be responsible for, honey? I have this lonely piece of equipment that, if it isn’t used enough, it gets rusty. A responsible owner would make sure that didn’t happen. I have some oil here that might help,” said Cash.
She laughed. “I have already ridden, tasted, and been fucked by that scrap of equipment tonight, so I’ll have to pass. I’m tired.”
“He’s offended, but he’s tired too or there would be feelings to mend.”
Levi laughed. “What about my bit of equipment? Solidarity feelings here.”
She leaned down and kissed his cock’s silky head, running her tongue around the spongy helmet. Levi groaned. She leaned down, kissed the head one last time, and rolled over to get into her standard spooning position. The slap on her ass wasn’t unexpected.
“You’ll pay for that, brat.”
“But not today, sir.”
Cash’s laugh was deep as rolled to his back, his hand resting between her thighs.
Levi chuckled as he became the big spoon to her little one, pulling her in tight. “But not today.”
Final dry run complete and successful. Levi knew the guys were confident. This was a much less intense operation that had been executed hundreds of times before, but the stakes were never higher. Sharlee hated not being able to man the house alarm system, manipulate the web access and remote controls of the internet access but Kaden was going to do that and he had honed his skills so well over the last few years, that if Sharlee decided to pack it all in and be a mom, he could take over with a little learning curve.
The biggest difference between Kaden and Sharlee now was her networking access and the deepest web familiarity. She was an exceptional hacker. She still did an outside job or two to keep her hand in. He was a hardware man before Sharlee had helped him up his game. He still loved hardware and could build nearly anything computerized, but now he could do more.
Sharlee got to carry her little customized SIG firearm. She practiced every month with it at Jac’s insistence. “You can only keep that if you are putting in the practice with it.” So, since Jac could sometimes make her nervous, Finley helped her tighten her shot.
As Finley went over the final preparations in her mind, she sent a text message to Darcy to check in on her. Something she might never have thought to do for anyone a few months ago.
Finley: Hey, you doing okay? Ben treating you well?
Darcy: I’ good. Ben’s good.
Hm, not what she really asked, but she knew Darcy was a bit overwhelmed these days and she didn’t want to push her out ofher comfort zone right now with it being just hours before the guys started the mission. The baby shower was tomorrow, but Levi and Carter snuck in tonight. They would take the alarm offline for three minutes to allow them to get in, then put it back online before cutting the lights. The guys would bed down in the room they entered and then be ready for the afternoon adventures.
Ivy had asked the question Finley was sure most of the women wondered. “Why are you crawling in the night before? It would make more sense to just walk in the door early the next morning.”
Kaden answered his wife. “Because we can’t let them know anyone is inside. They didn’t count on. Going in a door when Rodney’s gang might be watching all day Saturday would ruin the mission and the element of surprise.”
While Ivy digested that, Oakley asked, “So I get all that, but why turn the alarm on at all before the guys get in place?”
“Because that is what they would normally do. If they are monitoring the system, it will be on a loop that would indicate the system is up, but it will actually be down for three minutes. Then the mirror effect will be removed and it will show real display again. Go much longer and you run the risk of someone noticing a redundancy.”
Kaden added, “If you look closely, it can be detected, but unless they are monitoring the tiniest tremor of video disruption, which you wouldn’t expect or notice by just keeping watch, then no one will catch on. Besides, by then, Monroe and Mal will be turning off the lights to go to bed. It would be natural to have lights on and then go off. It encourages those who may be monitoring us to let their guard down.”
“You guys think of everything,” said Jessie.
“We have to, or we could lose livelihoods and, more importantly, lives,” said Garrett.
After a few more questions and answers, everyone went home.
That night, Levi and Carter executed the first part of the plan without a hitch, and Finley slept terribly. Cash came in late and crawled into bed, holding her tight, but she tossed all night. Cash tried, but nothing could quiet her thoughts and fears. They couldn’t text or call because of the possibility of the messages or conversation being intercepted. They were too close to ending this to risk jeopardizing anything.
Finley lay awake for too long, falling into a fitful sleep around two. Cash must have crashed after that. She was up by seven and felt like crap. The bed where Cash had slept was cold. No one slept well, evidently except Storm. Fin smiled at his antics this morning. Sharlee kept Storm with her, and Finley tried to fall back to sleep with minimal success.
