Page 220 of Allegiance

“I want to go on the record and say that the hole that was just put in the wall…you bitches aren’t blaming me for it later.”

They were all still shaken up. Maura didn’t do shit like that, and if she was…

Rogue leaned back and closed his eyes.

“This city,” he said. “There are days I wish it would get swallowed.”

Yeah, they were all aware.

“I’ll go make some coffee,” Merry said. “We’re going to have a long night of tracking cryptocurrency for the Major.”

Wasn’t that the truth?

And an even longer night…

Forgetting.

In The Adjoining House…

If anything, he knew why she was so upset, and Maura had every right to be.

They’d fought for years trying to take down men who took too much power over women, children, their citizens, and anyone they could bully.

They’d leveled the playing field, and now, the knowledge that there were still assholes out there was a hard pill to swallow.

That’s why he wasn’t shocked to find her in their bathroom, puking.

This was an insult to the years of service they’d both put in, and it made him feel just as nauseous.

How could it not?

To soothe his wife, he knelt beside her and ran his hand up and down her back.

“I know, Baby. I know. It turns my stomach too. We try so hard, and they keep winning when we’re fighting another war. Elizabeth will get them handled.”

She wiped her mouth and sat on the floor. Jagger handed her some water and joined his wife.

Unfortunately, they’d seen shit like this way too many times in their military careers.

People were assholes.

“We’ll get him. I’ll make him pay. Don’t take it too hard. We can’t win them all. You told me that once, and I always kept it in mind.”

She wished it was that simple.

Instead, she shook her head.

“I don’t know if this is a good or bad time, J, but I think that I’m pregnant.”

Slowly, he turned his head.

The words wouldn’t even come out, so all he did was stare at her. Finally, he was able to string a sentence together. He couldn’t believe what she’d just said to him.

“You wouldn’t play with me, right? Because we lost that baby, and I’ve been a mess.”

She shook her head.

“I’m very serious. Today, I’ve felt off the whole day, and now, I’m puking. I don’t puke a whole lot, J. You know that.”