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“Where is he now?”Hex asked.What had the fucker done since Hex told him they knew about his debt to Harry?

“Give me as sec,” Cypher hit several keys on his keyboard.A window popped up on the screen, but Hex did his best to be patient and wait to be told rather than lean over the hacker to get a better look at the screen.“Right now it appears he’s at home, his home according to the DMV, though he could live elsewhere and not have updated his address.”

Hex wondered what was going through the fucker’s head and what he was planning, but since there was no way to know, they would have to wait and see.He hated waiting.He sucked at it.

His phone rang.He pulled it out of his pocket and found it was Chase.

“What’s up?”he said as he answered the call.

“We just hit the road on our way back.Unless something happens to slow us down, we should be there inside half an hour.”

“Sounds good.Take the truck to my house, I’ll have Elle there to tell you where everything goes.”

“See you then.”Chase hung up.

Hex glanced around the room, wondering for a moment what to do next.They had a little time before the prospects would be there, but he wondered if Elle had anything she wanted to take care of at the house before they arrived.

“Anything else here that needs my attention?”

“Not from me,” Cypher said, still not looking away from his screens.

“Not that I know of,” Wrath put in.“But if something comes up, I know where to find you.”

Hex nodded, then headed for the door.

“Then I’m going to take Elle back to the house so we’re ready when they get here with her shit.”He went back into his office, let Elle know her things were on the way and took them both back to the house.

Chapter Twenty

“Thereweare.”Thegirl who had introduced herself ten minutes before as Lexi said as she moved a wand that Elizabeth didn’t even want to think about where she’d put it.

“What are we looking at?”Kevin said from Elizabeth’s other side, his hand gripping her as they both looked at the little screen Lexi had turned toward them.

All Elizabeth saw was a big black blob with what looked like a tiny bean resting against one edge.

“That is your baby,” Lexi said, her voice cheerful.“There’s not a lot to see yet, but I can do this.”She hit a few keys on and a soft, fast whooshing sound filled the room.

“What’s that?”Elizabeth asked.

“You’re baby’s heartbeat.I still need to get a few measurements and then we’ll be done.”

“It’s so fast, isn’t it too fast?”Kevin asked, squeezing her hand.

She was glad he did.She’d thought the same thing but hadn’t yet gathered the nerve to ask.

“It’s 147 beats per minute, that’s about average.Fetal heart rates vary from 120 to 160 beats per minute.And yes, it seems fast if you’ve only ever heard an adult’s.”

“Good to know,” Kevin said.“What are you thinking, sugar?”

She started to speak but couldn’t get anything past the lump in her throat, instead she squeezed his hand back as she turned to look at him, not bothering to hide the tears pooling in her eyes.She hoped her smile would let him know they were happy tears.

“Me too, baby, me too.”He used the thumb of his free hand to wipe away the lone tear that fell from her eye and streaked down her cheek.

Elizabeth was vaguely aware of the tech hitting keys and doing something on the device on her other side.

“We’re really doing this?”

“We’re really doing this, sugar.”Kevin smiled at her making her heart swell even more and another tear streak down her cheek.He wiped it away again then turned to look at Lexi.“Anything we need to know?”