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The easiest had been the wife, since she was still residing in her husband’s home.
    His update would be coming in the morning, for now he would wait, but soon his impatience
     would get the better of him.

Chapter Six
     
    Jolie sat on the floor with tears in her eyes. Marie said if she didn’t return that
     something had gone wrong. She had to wait another few days before she was supposed to call the number given to her.
    Sammi was an angel. Jolie smile and laughed , she met Marie at the VA Center right after her husband died. Jolie was a Social Worker who handled the cases of men with PTSD. They met by chance in
     the small dining room of the main VA facility in La Hoya. Marie came for grief counseling and was having a bad day.
    She was s itting and staring at the wall by herself, and Jolie had come through to get a can of soda, she had needed the caffeine . When her boss came into the room and whispered into her ear that Marie was the wife of a Team T EN member . Everyone knew about what had happened.
    Jolie had walked over and sat down with the woman who was obviously deep in her grief.
     It had started f r om there. The two woman seemed to click. Marie talked to her about he r bad days and her good. Jolie had come to love the little girl that belonged to her
     best friend.
    When she called and asked her to watch Sammi, she had never questioned the reason —u ntil her friend came over. Her face was tear rav ag e d and she had been tense. Claiming she was not sure what was going on, only that she
     had been contacted by someone who was threatening her daughter. Jolie wanted to call
     the police, but Marie had insisted on letting her go to the initial meeting. She would turn her phone onto record hoping she would get enough answers to go to the authorities.
    Marie wasn ’ t stupid . S he knew if she called the Commander, he would have taken care of it all. The only
     problem was the threat was delivered along with a picture of little Sammi in the daycare
     center on the base. She felt like r unning but had no one to run to, except Jolie. Who gladly helped and they worked
     out a plan together.
    Marie was going to a meeting in a public place, she would keep her phone turned on
     to recording, and activate the GPS tracker in her phone, and she had even grabbed
     her late husband’s phone and done the same thing, just in case. One was for back up. She would leave one of them in the car.
    Jolie was to take Sammi to a hotel and check in. She couldn’t tell Marie which one, that way she wouldn’t know. Jolie had her cell turned off just in case someone got a hold
     of Marie’s phone. Her friend had brought her a brand new pay - as - you - go phone they activated right before Marie left.
    It had been silent all night and all day. Jolie’s nerves were getting ready to break as she stared at the phone, and listened for Sammi
     to wake f r om the nap she had laid her down for an hour ago.
    They stayed in the room ordering room service. She wasn’t sure what to do now. The room was paid for through tomorrow. Should she go home, call the base, call anyone.
     Tears began to threaten again as the fear began to build once more . Something bad had happened to her friend, there was no way in hell Marie would not have called unless she was unable to do so. That thought in itself scared the crap out of her. She wouldn’t
     allow her mind to go any further.
    Jolie pulled out the letter that Marie had gone over and over with her. The phone number belonged to Gage Loman, Sammi’s godfather , and her late husband ' s teammate and best friend . He was not in the state, she knew that f r om the area code, maybe she should call him and see if he could come here. Then at
     le a st she wouldn’t feel so helpless. Of course, Marie said only in case of emergency
     was she to call the number.
    Damn, she was twisting herself into knots just thinking about this. She needed a distraction. Jolie pulled her computer out and turned it on. She