do before supper?”
“Go home,” Brigid said curtly. She was attired in jeans, a military-gray T-shirt and low-heeled boots. “I’ve about had my fill of the Sunshine State.”
Kane touched the lump on the top of his head and winced. “Me, too. Kind of a shame about how everything turned out. I know you had hopes of cutting a deal, Baptiste.”
“Billy-boy should’ve believed you,” Domi stated. “Fat bastard brought this on himself.”
“What about the people here?” Edwards asked. “What should we do with them?”
Domi cast the big shaved-headed ex-Mag a cold stare. “Let ’em go. Not their fault Porpoise was an asshole.”
“True,” Grant agreed. “But they’re not exactly victims, either. They benefited from Porpoise’s marauding.”
Edwards nodded, wiping at the sweat pebbling his brow. “We can’t leave them to pick up the pieces themselves. They’ll just try to take over Coral Cove.”
Kane exhaled a stream of smoke. “Then we’ll post CAT Alpha here, under your command, for a couple of days. Just to make sure everybody behaves.”
Edwards looked as if he were on the verge of voicing an objection, then nodded. “Yes, sir.”
Brigid sighed, running fingers through her tangled mane of hair. “Why is it that so many of the deals we broker are ultimately decided at the barrel of a gun?”
Grant shrugged the wide yoke of his shoulders. “That’s the purest form of diplomacy, isn’t it?”
Taking a final puff of the cigar, Kane flipped the butt out into the breakers. “Let’s get to the Mantas. The sooner we launch, the sooner we’re back in the cool mountain breezes of Montana.”
Dourly, Grant said, “Not exactly.”
Both Kane and Brigid eyed him challengingly. “Not what exactly?” Brigid wanted to know.
Grant hooked a thumb in the general direction of the Mantas. “I received a comm. call from Lakesh a few minutes ago. There’s a situation he wants us to check out on the way back to Cerberus.”
“What kind of situation?” Domi asked suspiciously, ruby eyes slitted.
“Possible overlord activity.”
Kane frowned. “Where?”
Slowly, almost reluctantly, Grant intoned, “Tennessee…the former barony of Beausoleil.”
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