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Shea smiled ruefully "Not asis better than a cell phone I can talk to her whenever I want, so it makes the times I can’t see her not see Way too old for her age She’s had to grow up so fast, but Grace and Rio both love her so much already"

"I’ll admit, it was hard to picture Rio as a daddy," PJ said, a crook in her lip "He’s so intense and broody But he also has a soft spot a uess it’s not so out of the realh The last ti"

Shea’s entire face lit up, her sed s It had been the Kelly lovefest that had sent PJ to her seedy bar in Denver in a funk Now she realized she’d just been jealous and lonely

It made her wince to admit that she’d actually been jealous of all the love and support of the huge Kelly family, but she was brutally honest with herself Well, when she wasn’t in denial

Sarah poured her a glass of wine and handed it across the table to PJ but then drew up short just as PJ reached for it

"You haven’t taken any pain medication, have you? We didn’t even think about that You have to be in a lot of pain and we should have had the sense not to plan wine"

PJ s free No need to worry that I’ll be stoned after a glass of wine My last dose was yesterday evening I’ not to take it unless I have to or Cole hed

"If Cole’s anything like our husbands, and I’m sure he’s just as much an alpha, hardheaded male, then you have your hands full," Rachel said with a rueful sreat," PJ said softly

She lowered her gaze when the other wo s when one of the up the delicate situation that was essentially the elephant in the roo here in the first place

She watched as Sophie scooped three-year-old Charlotte into a hug and then tickled the toddler’s tuhter

PJ had to admit that Charlotte was a co babies and sweet little belly laughs Almost

There had been a time when PJ had considered that she was ready to settle down, have a baby or two and do the whole A Derek had quickly dissuaded her of that notion

He hadn’t wanted children, and ht it was an outdated, old-fashioned concept and that in the modern world, it made no sense for a man to commit to one woman

Okay, so he was a complete dickhead She knew that then even if she hadn’t i papers

Oddly enough she’d been less tolerant of hi a dirty cop than she had been of his views on love, iven any thought to anything except her job andsure she was the best damn sniper and soldier she could be

All plans of e and family had been thrown out theAnd since then, she’d decided she just wasn’t mother material What kind of parent could she be with the job she held? She loved her job and knew she’d never be happy giving it all up for home and hearth

She wondered what Cole’s opinions were on the subject

She shook her head, deterood way to set herself up for disappoint children andto ood it would do her to be dreaht in some shit-hole country, it wasn’t the US justice system she’d have to worry about She’d be in some deep, dark place subject to treatment that would make what Nelson and Brumley had done to her a total cakewalk

Was it worth it? Was it truly worth her life to take Brumley out?

She needed no time to answer that question

Hell yes She didn’t even hesitate It wasn’t just her who’d suffered at thatwoin to think of the atrocities so irls had suffered before And how many would suffer in the future if she didn’t shut this asshole down

Her life certainly orth it when she coirls she could save by taking his miserable ass out

"I have no idea what you’re thinking, but it must be pretty awful," Sarah said

PJ blinked and looked at Garrett’s wife, as sitting across from her in a lawn chair For thatintently at her

PJ offered a gri about Just an asshole who needs killing"

Sophie lifted her brow "Several coave a wave "Don’t listen to her She’s pretty bloodthirsty"

PJ cracked a grin "She sounds like my kind of woman"

It was then that PJ realized Rachel wasn’t drinking any wine, and for that lasses had been placed on the table She frowned and held her glass in Rachel’s direction "Do you want soed a soft pink and her eyes lit up like twin sunbeams Then she patted her softly rounded belly that PJ hadn’t noticed before PJ’s nant?" PJ asked

"With twins!" Rachel exclaier all the tihed at PJ’s reaction PJ shook her head "I had no idea Looks like I’ve missed a lot in the last six months"