Page 33 of Allegiance

Jagger laughed.

“Not a lie,” he joked. “They are spectacular.”

And also why men didn’t have breasts. They’d be distracted all day long.

“Thanks, babe, I think,” she said.

Jinx didn’t care if Dakota got pissy. He could yell at her all he wanted. Then, she’d kick his ass for running on her sister Snake.

“He made a baby. It’s not Eve’s fault that her birth control failed. Now, she’s going to have to look at that child every day and see a man who told her to have a good life as he shoved her away. That’s horrible.”

Yeah, that had been douchey.

They all agreed on that.

Even for Dakota.

It wasn’t his finest moment.

“Mar,” she said, staring at the woman she considered her mother. “We gotta do something. Help me talk them into doing anything at this point.”

Maura was the planner.

She was also trapped inside until they found Chevy, so she had a lot of time to think about it.

“Let me work out the details in my head,” she said. “I may have a plan we can use.”

That gave everyone some reassurance.

Maura was damn good at them.

“Thank you,” Jinx said.

Maura sipped her coffee and began running the numbers in her head.

Oh, she had one that she’d pulled together that had a good probability to work for the Dakota situation, and the Chevy one, too, but timing was everything.

One she was ready to roll on.

For the Chevy one…she needed a bit more time to figure out the percentage of success because it was dangerous.

Remmy sipped his coffee from his seat at the island and offered up his take on the whole thing.

“Dakota should be told,” he said. “I know if I had made a child, I’d want to know.”

They all knew that Remington Bowman had lost his wife and daughter. He’d give anything to get them back, so there was no shock there with his words.

They all knew that he’d trade his own life for them to live.

“I agree,” Maura said. “BUT we promised Eve we wouldn’t tell him. So, that means we have to be sneaky. That means we come up with a good strategy.”

Zayn laughed.

“Just let me walk up to him and tell him he knocked Eve up, she’s three months pregnant, and he’s going to be a father. Sneaky isn’t his thing. You have to hit Dakota over the head with something to make him see it. I mean, how many times did we tell him Sarah was loco before he believed us?”

Yeah, and unfortunately, it did get ugly.

For everyone.