Page 39 of Allegiance

Stella was staying in.

PERIOD.

She protested to keep it going.

“Babe, give me a gun, and I’ll take anyone out who goes near the place.”

Zayn pointed.

“See why I said no to that suggestion? She’s a menace with a gun.”

She laughed.

Yeah, he wasn’t exactly lying about that, now was he?

Instead of going there, Rogue continued, trying to get Dakota to just do it. It was like wrangling cats when it came to dealing with him.

Or armed toddlers.

“Merry is a scientist. We aren’t giving her a gun and mission.”

She threw an apple from the fruit bowl at him. Luckily, Jinx had incredible reflexes and managed to snag it from the air and hand it to him.

“HEY! I don’t care how many pearl necklaces you steal for me. I can handle a gun and I’ll kick your ass if you don’t mind ya business.”

He laughed.

And then took a bite of the apple.

“Someone is feisty today,” he said.

From where he sat, Dakota just listened. He wasn’t in the mood to work. What he wanted to do was go home, find Eve in his dreams, and escape it all.

Now he understood why Rogue had drunk himself into a mess to escape after Cordelia’s death.

That might be step two.

“That leaves Remmy,” Rogue said. “And unfortunately, his face is well known, and if we put a hooded figure in front of the target’s house…”

Dakota got it.

That might blow up in their faces.

Finally, he gave in.

Hearing about it was annoying him. It would be easier to just go sit there with a paper and coffee.

“I’ll do it. Tell me what I’m supposed to do.”

Here came the hard part.

And the dangerous part.

“Watch to make sure that nothing suspicious is going on, and if someone tries for the owner of the place, or anyone outside it, save them,” Jinx suggested.

They tried to be as obtuse as possible.

“Who owns it?” he asked.