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then she found where they should have been.” Minji shook her head. “I can’t believe that there’s only one on board.”

“Right?” Tara asked rhetorically. “What the fuck kind of military ship is this?”

“One that’s equipped with plenty of other equipment,” Hammer said grimly. “If they needed the room they would have dumped those things fast. Especially since they could be pretty sure we wouldn’t have anything airborne to combat in the first place.”

“Hammer’s right.” I nodded. “We shouldn’t be surprised.”

“What are we going to do?” Anna asked. “We need those.”

“Don’t you guys have some?” Tara asked Hammer.

“I’m afraid not.” The SEAL shook his head. “We almost got some a while back, but we were under fire, and I had to make a snap decision. Besides, we didn’t have anything to use them with at the moment.”

“Fuck,” Anna cursed. “What do we do now?”

“Let me think,” I said, and I hooked the walkie back onto my hip, turned around, and walked over to the window to look at the ocean beyond.

The sunlight shone on the water, and I was amazed at how beautiful my surroundings were even when everything else around me was falling to pieces. We didn’t stand a chance against the NKs from Boston if we didn’t have air superiority. Our only option was to figure out a way to get it.

We needed to find more anti aircraft missiles, and we needed to do it extremely fast. Definitely faster than any other mission we’d gone on.

“Hammer,” I said, and I turned to look at the large SEAL. “Do you know of anywhere around that might have some?”

“Oh, yeah,” Bailey said. “Where was it you guys almost got some from last time?”

“The Navy Supply Center had some a while ago,” Hammer said, and he put his hand on the back of his neck as he thought. “But last time we were there I didn’t see any. The place is pretty damn ransacked.”

“Shit,” I breathed. The SEALs knew this place better than we did, so I was hoping Hammer would know somewhere nearby we could go to get some. “Rivers?”

“Sorry.” The SEAL shook his head slowly. “I don’t know.”

“What about the Captain?” Minji asked.

“What about him?” Hammer replied, and his eyebrows pinched together as he looked at her.

“He might know of somewhere,” the Korean woman said.

“You think so?” Rivers asked skeptically.

“He was stationed around here for a long time,” Minji said. “If anybody knows, I bet it’s him.”

“Good idea,” I told her. “We’ll ask him. You and Pike stay here, we’ll send Smith to meet you. Once he arrives, you all take the ship to King’s Creek, you got it?”

“Yes, sir.” Pike nodded.

“Hammer, Rivers, girls,” I said. “Let’s get back to shore.”

The SEALs nodded and headed for the door, but the girls beat them to it. Anna reached for the handle, but before she could grab it, the door swung open, and Paige slammed into the redhead.

“Other way,” Anna said, and she grabbed Paige by the shoulders, spun her around, and pushed her back out the door.

“Be careful,” Minji told me softly as I followed the group.

“We will,” I told her with a small smile. “We’ll see you soon, okay?”

Minji nodded, and I could tell she was on edge, but I didn’t have time to reassure her more than that at the moment. There was too much to get done in far too little time.

Once we got back on deck, I made an announcement for everybody to board the rafts and head to shore. Only those necessary to operate the ship should stay, which was Pike, Minji, Smith, and a few others. It wasn’t perfect, and it was barely a skeleton crew, but they weren’t going too far.

After everyone was back on shore, we piled into the jeeps and tore off back toward our camp. I kept my foot on the gas the whole way, and I heard the tires screech as we took corners, and the girls grabbed onto the oh shit handles and leaned to the side.

I wasn’t incredibly proud of driving like a maniac with Tara and my unborn child on board, but I didn’t have any time to waste. If we failed this mission, then that would put her in far more danger than a little bit of speeding would.

The girls were deathly quiet the entire drive back to the camp, and I was so focused on the road ahead of me, that I didn’t even notice their silence until we were nearly there.

I pulled into the front driveway of the old soda factory, threw the jeep in park, shut it off, and hopped out.

Hammer pulled in a few seconds later, and I waved my hand to stop him.

“What do you need?” he asked as he rolled his window down.

“I’m going to talk to the Captain,” I explained. “Gather everyone up and give them a rundown. I’ll be down as soon as I can.”

“On it,” Hammer said, and he pulled the jeep around back while the girls and I rushed inside.

The guard at the front door looked at us with concern as we pushed past him, but I just called for him to go around back and find Hammer.

“We’re going to throw everyone into a panic,” Anna said as we rushed up the stairs to the Captain’s room.

“Maybe they should be panicked,” I muttered more to myself than as a response, then I sighed and turned to Anna. “It’ll all be okay, trust me.”

“I do,” the redhead said with a nod.

We reached the Captain’s room, and I grabbed the handle to open it but found it locked.

“Captain,” I said as I banged on the door. “It’s Tav. I need to talk to you now.”

“What’s going on?” the older man asked as he yanked