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“Of course, man, you’re not going to want to miss this one,” Ezra smirks, and my curiosity increases.
“Do I want to know?” Trick asks, his eyebrow raising.
Ace shrugs, “Probably not, man. We’ll bring them back in one piece though.”
“Somehow, that doesn’t reassure me,” Trick replies drily.
“Me neither,” Atlas adds, standing up, “I’m coming.”
“Sure thing, let’s go,” Jynx practically yells, betraying her own excitement, and I chuckle as I finish putting my boots on and stand up.
It doesn’t escape my notice that they still haven’t told me where they’re taking us, and I get the feeling that they aren’t going to either.
“So what are we doing?” Jensen asks as we head down the driveway and out to the edge of town near to where Lyric and the guy's place is.
“We’re going,” Jynx starts, and then becomes unintelligible when Ace puts a hand over her mouth. Of course, Jynx, being who she is, must bite him because Ace yells and pulls his hand back. You’d have to be blind not to see the heat in his eyes though.
“Did you just bite me?” He asks incredulously, looking down at the bite marks marring his hand; she got him good.
Jynx bares her teeth and snaps them at him as she replies, “Yep, you should know better.”
Ace chuckles, pulling her close and kissing her before he replies, “Yeah, that’s fair. I just didn’t want you to spoil it for them. I think it will be more fun to surprise them.”
“He’s got a point,” Ezra agrees, looking highly amused.
“I regret nothing,” Jynx shrugs and then winks at Lyric and me, making us both chuckle.
“Why do I suddenly feel like we’re going to end up stopping the women from doing something reckless?” Atty suddenly questions.
The others share a knowing look, as Ezra admits, “Because that is a very real possibility.”
I’m practically buzzing with excitement at this point, although I have to admit that I become slightly confused when we pull into what looks like an old quarry.
“Should we be here?” I can’t help but ask with concern. I know there are some pretty strict rules for these sorts of places.
“Don’t worry, we own it,” Ezra replies nonchalantly as he steps out of the car, and the rest of us scramble out behind him.
“Can I tell them now?” Jynx says excitedly, “Please?”
Lyric chuckles, “Go on.”
“We’re blowing stuff up!!”
My eyes go wide as Jensen whoops in excitement, and Atlas starts grinning. I glance between them, all my excitement growing as I ask, “Seriously? We get to explode some things?”
Lyric smiles, nodding enthusiastically as she rubs her bump, “Yep, I thought with everything going on or rather not going on with the Rylie case that we could all do with blowing off a little bit of steam, and I did promise you guys that we could blow some stuff up so here we are!”
“Wow, this is awesome. Thanks, Lyric,” I say gratefully as I pull her in for a quick hug.
“No problem, I have everything set up, but there are a few safety things I want to go over first. I’m not being responsible for any of you blowing yourselves up.” She replies firmly, leaving no room for argument, not that we would have argued anyway. Sure, we want to make things go bang, but not at the risk of injuring ourselves.
“Of course, go ahead,” Jensen says, being serious for a change and making us all smile.
Lyric spends the next ten minutes or so explaining all the safety protocols and exactly what we need to do. She explains where exactly we’ll be blowing stuff up and where we need to stand to remain safe. She’s set it up so that we get to blow at least three things up each and then hands us all ear defenders and eye protection as well.
“Alright, follow me. Ever you’re up first,” Lyric grins as we all follow her to where she’s set up the first explosion. She points to the button, and I appreciate that she’s set it up this way; it makes it even more fun. “Do you remember what to do?”
I give her a dry look, “Dude, you told me like less than five minutes ago,” when she just looks at me with her eyebrow raised, I sigh and reply, “Yes, I remember.”