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72 Hours

She looked into his sad, dark eyes and knew it could all end right here. If her little boy cried and begged her to stay, every word she’d said to Alex would cease to matter.

“Some of them. But the head bad guy is still out there.”

“Are you going to go get him?”

She sat on the cot next to him and tucked his head under her chin. “I want to, but only if it’s okay with you to stay here with Nana and Grampa until I get back.”

Only a few seconds passed before he nodded, his soft hair tickling under her chin. “They said I’m even better guarded than the president. And I missed Grampa and Nana. You won’t get hurt, will you?”

She squeezed him just a little too hard and he squirmed. “I’ll try not to get hurt, honey. It’s dangerous, but I did this job for a lot of years before you were born, and I know how to take care of myself. Okay?”

“Okay.”

“And no matter what, you remember I love you more than anything. Even more than Doritos.”

He giggled and pulled out of her embrace. He was reaching the age at which he’d only tolerate coddling for so long. “Is Alex going with you?”

“Yes. We’re kinda partners. Or we used to be.”

“I’m glad he’s going with you.”

Something in his voice made her wonder if something besides being impressed with Rossi’s abilities was behind his words. “Why?”

He shrugged, trying for casual, but not quite getting it. “He looks at me a lot. Like watching me and staring, and it’s kinda creepy.”

At least he had good instincts, she thought. Clearly the apple hadn’t fallen from either branch of the tree. “I know you’re a little shaken up right now, honey, but do you remember when I told you your father was a doctor?”

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Danny nodded, frowning. “And you couldn’t find him, so he doesn’t know

‘bout me.”

Grace took a deep breath. Hopefully the emotional bombshells were almost over, because too many more bracing breaths would have her hyperventilating.

“Alex is your father, sweetie.”

He didn’t say anything, so she pressed on. “We used to work together and we…liked each other a lot. But we lost touch right before I found out I had you in my belly. He didn’t know about you until after the bad guys took you and I needed help to get you back.”

“So you knew where he was if you could ask him to help get me back.”

Ouch. “I knew how to contact people who knew how to find him. I thought…I thought he had done a bad thing, but now I know I was wrong. I’m so very sorry, baby. I’m sorry about all of this.”

He shrugged again, and this one translated as he was confused and hurt and needed some time to think things through. And Grace was thankful her parents were just the kind of warm and intelligent people to talk him through what was happening.

“Can I talk to him before you leave?” Danny asked, and Grace nodded.

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