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That’s what you
want.”
    “ Never. I want you. I want
to be me. You?”
    “ There’s a little Catholic
girl inside me who wants all of that and more,” she said. “But I’d
never be happy. Never. And Simon won’t live. I… I don’t think I can
have babies. So it’s all a dream.”
    “ A nightmare, sounds
like.”
    “ I guess so,” she said. “I
do love you, John Kelly.”
    “ I’m so very glad. How much
time do we have?”
    “ About a half hour,” she
said.
    He slipped on top of her. He caught her lips
then work his way from her face. She gasped at his teeth pulling on
her nipple.
    He stopped. Pushing himself up onto his
elbow, he looked up into her face.
    “ Simon? You named my son,
Simon?”
    Alex laughed.
    F

CHAPTER SEVEN
    Four hours later
Wednesday morning
    March 26 – 5:45 A.M. MDT
Military Intelligence, Buckley Air Force Base
     
    After rounding up Raz, Vince, Troy and
Matthew, Alex’s Sergeant reminded her that she forgot Sergeant
Larry Flagg.
    Again.
    And where was Sergeant Flagg?
    He didn’t answer his home phone or his cell
phone. Matthew dropped by his home on his way to base. Sergeant
Flagg wasn’t at home. Figuring he’d show up, they once more forgot
Sergeant Flagg. Certainly, there was plenty of work to do.
    About an hour later, the Denver Police
called. Sergeant Lawrence Flagg had been picked up for driving
under the influence with a blood alcohol of 0.45. Because his blood
alcohol was so high, the police took him to Denver Health for
detox. Alex’s cell number was the only number he could remember
this morning. Of course, the Denver Police would be happy to
release him to her custody but Major Drayson needed get him.
    Dressed in her winter gear, Alex left the
men with detailed instructions on what they needed to resolve while
she was gone. One last, ‘Get to work’ and she wandered down an
early-morning quiet hallway. Turning into a long still hallway, she
felt alone in a quiet world.
    “ Where ya going?”
    Alex yelped with surprise. On guard, she
turned in place to see a large, muscle bound man. He laughed at
Alex’s response. Even in his heavy winter gear, his barrel chest
and twenty inch arms were apparent. Smiling, his tear drop tattoo
scrunched into the brown skin near his left eye.
    “ Gotcha,” Trece
said.
    “ Andy! I thought you and
Chris were out of the country.” Alex was swallowed in a muscular
hug.
    “ We’re a part of your team,
Major,” he said.
    “ So where’s Chris?” She
raised an eyebrow.
    “ Getting coffee for you,”
Trece said.
    Alex turned to see an equally muscular man
trot down the hallway with a travel mug in his hand. Beaming at
Alex, his near albino skin and pale blue eyes glistened under the
florescent lights.
    “ Here you go, Alex,” White
Boy said.
    “ What do I owe this
privilege?” Alex asked.
    “ We are hoping you’ll
request us for this project,” White Boy said.
    “ I sent the request a couple
hours ago,” Alex said. “How did you...?”
    “ We have our ways,” Trece
said. He winked at Alex. “Where ya going?”
    “ Pick up Sergeant Flagg at
Denver Health. He got a DUI last night.”
    “ That’s mighty unbecoming,”
Trece said. “Isn’t he an officer?”
    Alex curled her lip at Trece.
    “ Are you going to…” White
Boy started.
    “ Kill him,” Alex
said.
    “ Now Alex, that’s mighty
violent,” Trece said. “I’d offer to kill him for you
but...”
    Alex laughed.
    “ Can we come with you?”
White Boy asked. “We hear there’s a contract...”
    “ You look like you could use
our company,” Trece talked over White Boy. “We are your favorite
White Boy and Trece.”
    “ I think you’re the only
White Boy and Trece,” Alex said.
    “ See the coffee worked,”
White Boy said.
    With the two men beside her, Alex walked to
her Jeep CJ.
    “ I can’t believe they didn’t
blow this car up,” White Boy said. “How long you had
this?”
    “ Since high school,” Alex
said. Pulling up to the guard