Page 49 of Chaos has a Name
Only, no one could ever do that better than her. Elizabeth had that uncanny ability to thrive in the chaos. She could survive there better than anyone.
When she got back on her focus, this town would be her bitch once again.
Ethan knew he tried, and he’d never been able to do what she had done here.
He’d dropped all of the balls, and it all came crashing down on him. His wife, on the other hand, could balance fifty things, and make them all work.
She was a multitasker.
That was her superpower—amongst everything else she was good at.
“We’ll get through this,” Callen admitted. “We got you, Boo.”
Oh, she knew they said that, but deep down, she was also aware that the men in her life were on the cusp of the freefall too.
If Wyler died, she’d be forced to hold everyone up, putting her mourning aside to take care of the people who needed her most.
Just thinking that annoyed her because it made her feel selfish and like a whiny baby. Now, she really wanted to do anything else but dwell on it.
So, she would.
“MATE?”
Her watch chimed.
“Yes, Deputy Director?” came the voice.
It had no flair, MATE didn’t appear, and there was one good reason.
In her attempt to save Ethan from a nightmare, she’d used the master code and erased MATE’s memory. It was done in order to sneak out with Gene to take down Javier Hughes before he could do any more damage.
And she didn’t regret it.
At.
All.
“Pull up personnel records for this office. Transmit to tablets. I need to know who I’m up against. I also need to find more agents in case the shit gets deep.”
The system chimed.
“As you wish, Deputy Director.”
From where he sat, Gene sighed.
“I kind of miss her angst and entertainment,” he admitted. “She was kooky and fun. This version is…boring. We need her back how she was.”
Chris laughed sardonically.
Oh, well, that was amusing since it took a full year of MATE learning from them, and anyone else who had access to her like the Crofts and the Hunters.
Bringing her back…
It wasn’t an easy task.
“Well, then, maybe don’t use the master code on her to erase her memories. Let’s remember who was responsible for that,” he said, pointing at Elizabeth and Gene. “So now you get stripped-down version of her memory.”
Yeah, she was aware.
