We can go back in after an hour or so if you would like.’ ‘Can you shave me now?’ I had to chuckle, she sounded like a little girl asking if she... could open her presents now. ‘Let me fix me some coffee first. Look into the bag on the counter, all of that is for you.’ ‘Oh.’ ‘Read the instructions.’ She ate her candy as she did and I rejoined her at the table with my coffee. She looked up feminine hygiene on her tablet and clicked on the shaving link. ‘This is a lot of trouble,’ she said. ‘It is. We’re going to another place, one registered under a friend’s name.”“When we get there, you’re going to explain your plan to me. Every detail.”When I didn’t respond immediately, Callie grabbed my sleeve. Her eyes turned Arctic-ice hard. “Lightfoot, you’re going to tell me everything, you get that? Everything.”CALLIE HAD NOTICED HOW Hunter had tensed up. Ever-present in her mind was waking up to him thrashing in his nightmare. He’d claimed it was nothing but she knew better. She’d hear him cry. Marine Two set down in the middle of the street and a full squad of Marines surrounded me as Charger and I were moved to the waiting helo. The next thing I knew we were being led up the steps of Air Force Two and hustled out of town until things were clearer.Dark ops had a protocol for this. Everything around the attack went dark as far as electronic communications. Our people communicated using land lines hastily plugged into nearby telephone lines. Everyone else was without communication. He drove tractors and combines in the season and long hauls the rest of the time.My sisters, well, they weren’t really my sisters ‘cause I were adopted. Mama and daddy only had girls, so they adopted me. Mama said she had her tubes tied after she had Nancy, who was just a few months younger than me. She said that after five girls, she didn’t want more ‘em. She wanted a boy. Daddy did, too. So, here I am, in a house full of girls, ages almost like stair steps, one year apart.There was Jane, 16,.