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smiling far more than one would expect having just been thrown into the Twilight Zone.  
     
    “He hates me so much he likes me. So where is the Eraser?” He eyed Sonia. “Our team is a few miles from Carrie’s new location and they need Kel to wind walk over and work his magic on arrival.”
     
    “Eraser?” Sonia asked, confused.  
     
    “That’s what we call Kel since he can erase people’s memories.”  
     
    Sonia went completely still.  
     
    “Sonia don’t overreact,” Becca said quickly. “He would have told you. He hasn’t had time.”
     
    “Oh shit,” Chale said. “You didn’t know, did you?”
     
    “No,” Kel said from the door. “She didn’t know because I didn’t have time to tell her, so thank you for that.”
     
    Sonia was on her feet in a heartbeat. “You had time to tell me, you just didn’t. You were going to wipe my memories and send me away again, weren’t you?”
     

 
     
    Chapter Eight
     
     
     
    You were going to wipe my memories and send me away again, weren’t you?  
     
    Kel’s heart thundered in his chest as he replayed Sonia’s words and tried to figure out what to say and not say. ”I wasn’t going to erase your memories. Or I was. I thought about it. I was going to give you the choice if you hated Sunrise City or this life. A choice, Sonia.”
     
    “Then why not tell me?” she demanded.  
     
    “I did at breakfast.”
     
    “You said nothing about wiping my memories.”
     
    “I knew you’d react like this.”
     
    “Are you wiping Carrie’s memories, too?” she demanded.  
     
    “We have no choice,” he said. “It’s that or a life in Sunrise City.”
     
    Sterling walked into the room and stopped   next to Kel. His gaze slid around the room before he muttered one of his famously outlandish statements turning Holy Mother of God into,   “Holy M&Ms we’re fighting, aren’t we?”
     
    “Yes,” Sonia said at the same time Kel said, “No.”
     
    “So yes,” Sterling said and glanced at Kel. “Sorry, man. Her face says it all. And I hate to make this worse, but we have a team ready to follow us to Carrie’s new location. We need to get a move on.”
     
    Kel ran his hand through his hair. “I’d planned to talk to you about this before we left for Sunrise today. I had no idea they would find her a location as quickly as they did. Can we talk a minute, Sonia?”
     
    “Go take care of Carrie,” she said, shaking her head. “This isn’t something we’re going to solve while other people wait.”
     
    Damn it, he’d say this with an audience if he had to. He crossed the room, grabbed her and kissed her. “You are everything to me. The thought of going one more second, let alone the rest of my life without you, shreds me to pieces. And yes, I considered wiping your memory, I won’t lie. I admit it. I wanted to protect you and I won’t apologize for that. I love you and I wanted you to have a choice, after you saw the real picture of what you’re involved with. But know this. I believe you’re right about the dreams leading you here and to a purpose. We’re supposed to fight this war together. I’ll be back in two hours tops.”  
     
    He kissed her again and turned and strode out of the room. The hours away from her were going to be torture.
     
    ***
     
    “It’s a soldier and a GTECHs nature to protect people, but their women even more so,” Becca said when she and Sonia were finally alone.
     
    Sonia absorbed her words and tried to calm down, sinking back onto a stool. “I know, but he let me think he was dead.”
     
    “He had a reason,” she said. “If the Army didn’t grab you and call you a witness and turn you into a casualty to protect a secret, Adam would have gotten to you. I was inside Area 51 and I know what they would have done to you just because you’re his woman. Every man in that place would have tried to mate with you and then they would have used drugs and tried it again. He didn’t know