Page 84 of Allegiance

Someone needed to calm down.

Because she didn’t want anyone to hear what she was planning to do, they headed into their part of the house, the one he’d had redone for her.

In their kitchen, she sat.

Immediately, someone was disappointed.

“Oh, boy. You did mean talk. My dick is not amused,” he said. “In fact, he feels tricked.”

She laughed.

“I did tell you it was to talk,” she admitted, knowing she needed him on the same page with her.

This plan…

It worried her.

“Focus,” she said, patting the seat next to her.

Jagger heard the tone, and he knew this wasn’t going to be fun. He could count the times that he’d seen her worried about a plan, and they were few and far between.

Getting ready, he sat next to her.

“Okay, spring it on me, Baby.”

Well, she did just that.

She told him the plan, and the whole time, he said absolutely nothing.

When she told him about the danger, the risk, and ultimately how it could go wrong, Jagger still didn’t say anything to her.

When she was done, he stared into her eyes and needed to know one thing.

“And our other options?”

She shook her head.

That was the problem.

There were none.

Well, none she could come up with.

“That’s the problem. We can’t find him, J. If we can’t locate him within the next day, we have to move on this. It’s a good solid plan. I just don’t like the risk to half of the team. That’s what worries me.”

He understood why she was hesitating. Honestly, if he was responsible for coming up with this, he would be too.

No.

Doubt.

To alleviate her fears, Jagger did what Jagger always did. He reassured her in his own way.

“I’ll go and handle it.”

She hated this.

As someone who had to create the strategy, it meant risking people she loved, including him.