Oh, hell, no.
“What do you mean Maura is going out too?” he asked, staring at his wife. “The whole reason I was good with this was she wasNOTgoing out.”
She shrugged.
“This was bumped to my kind of mission. We’re hunting, and look at that! I’m in charge ofTHE HUNTERS.”
He stared at her and he’d been to this rodeo enough times that he knew he wasn’t going to win.
He was only going to make her cranky.
“We’re going to have a long conversation, Maura Gaines-Mars-Armstrong,” he admitted, using her full name.
She figured as much.
“I’ll be masked up. As long as I stay that way, you’re going to need me to help. I won’t be doing the kill shot. That’s going to likely be some Snakes.”
That did help him calm down.
“A pregnant Snake and a postpartum Snake?” Boone asked. “Well, that’s enough hormones to kill any man. Von Donore is a deadman,” he stated.
On that, Maura agreed.
“You heard Elizabeth,” Maura admitted. “We have our mission. We’re to kill the head ofThe BlackStone Group. Find me a connection,” she said.
Jagger was befuddled, annoyed, and curious.
What the hell went on in that room behind closed doors between the two women?
Something, apparently.
When MATE appeared, she warned them.
“We have a car approaching. Inside, there are two people, and another one restrained in the back.”
At that, panic ensued.
So, before Zayn could get to the bazooka in the gun room, she calmed them down.
“That’s for me,” she said. “MATE, unlock the hidden door,” she added. “Alert them I’ll meet them down there.”
Now, everyone was curious the second she said that, and it brought up a myriad of questions.
What hidden door?
Who was coming?
It looked like someone had some explaining to do.
“The hidden door?” Maura asked. “We have one of those?”
She nodded.
“Yeah, thus, the name.”
Zayn sighed.
“She booby trapped the house. We’re rats in here. That’s how she comes and goes without us knowing.”
