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Tank took a seat on the couch. "I know you said you were offline, but I figured this was important enough."

I looked over at Ranger. He was trying to keep his cool. I figured it was either because we were interrupted or because Gabriel was bringing an all out drug war to the streets of Trenton.

I thought they were neck in neck.

Ranger looked over at me. "I guess you need to move in now, babe."

"How are you going to do it? Are you going to send a Molotov cocktail through a window?"

"It's the easiest."

I sighed.

"Babe, we have to."

"Well, can I at least grab my shoes first? I don't want to replace them again."

He smiled softly. "Of course."

"I'll be ready in a minute." I headed towards my bedroom. I couldn't believe it. In two days, Ranger went from not being a relationship guy to moving in with him. Well, it was only temporary until the threat was defused. Then I guess I would move back into my apartment. The thought of living here without Ranger made my stomach drop and I couldn't but feel a little bit sad. I grabbed a few Rangeman uniforms, jeans, t-shirts, nice pants and shirts, and a few dresses. I walked over to my dresser drawers and piled every pair of comfortable underwear and sexy Victoria Secret underwear into another bag. Ranger would smile to know I needed just a bag for my underwear (okay, my bathroom bag was in there too). I blushed at the thought of Ella washing the underwear, knowing she would know why I was wearing them.

Maybe I can go to Mom's and do laundry.

I grabbed the other bag, the dress bag, the shoe bag and headed back out to Tank and Ranger. Ranger reached me first and grabbed the two bags and the shoe bag while Tank grabbed the dress bag and Rex. Looks like I have to grab my purse. It's nice to have sexy, burly men around.

When we got to the car, I saw Manny and Zero drive up. They lit the bottle and threw it into my window.

Ranger put an arm around me. "Don't worry, babe, the fire department has already been called."

I shrugged and got into the passenger seat of the Porsche.

Ranger climbed in after me. "Babe? You okay?"

"Yeah, I guess it's just weird being apart of burning down my apartment."

He smiled his 200 watt smile. "Seeing it from the other side?"

I smiled back at him. "Yeah, you could put it that way."

I wanted to ask him what would happen after Gabriel was gone, but I chickened out. I guess it was better to skirt around the idea of me moving in, permanently. Well, more permanently than pretending to live on four, but actually live on seven because Ranger can't sleep without me but we can't go public because he's kind of "dating" Jeanne and it would look bad for all of us.

"I smell smoke, babe."

"Just thinking."

"Want to share?"

I chickened out again. "Wondering what our next move is."

"Tank set up a meeting. We'll be conferencing with the guys as soon as we get there."

"Everyone is waiting on us? Ranger, you're never late." I playfully clucked at him.

"Babe." He smiled at me.

Ten minutes later, when we reached Haywood, Ranger and Tank went to grab the bags. We stepped into the elevator and Ranger pushed five.

"But, shouldn't we put these away?" I asked him.

"No time, Babe."

I didn't get a chance to reply before the doors dinged open. Ranger, Tank and I walked down the hallway towards the conference room. Bobby, Lester, Hal, Cal, Jeanne, Manny and Zero all looked up when we entered. Jeanne gave me a death glare and I smiled back at her. It was way too hard to hide the smile form non-stop orgasms.

Life was good.

"What do we have?" Ranger asked Lester.

"Gabriel was spotted an hour ago, driving towards Trenton. ETA is about two hours. We're going to have to keep Jeanne under constant surveillance when she leaves the building. Most likely Gabriel is going to be checking out all your haunts and you have to have protection. Don't be a maverick." He said to Jeanne.

What we knew was that Gabriel was an up and coming threat as a drug dealer and gun runner. She was pissed off because she believes that Jeanne has her drugs that were sent before her, under customs surveillance and they had mysteriously disappeared. Now most likely, she would be coming after Ranger because Jeanne has taken extra precautions to be seen with him for her minions. The plan was that she was going to go after Ranger to get to Jeanne. But what she didn't know was the Merry Men and the arsenal they had built up.

Not only were the Merry Men of Trenton going to be shutting her down, but many men from Miami, Boston and Atlanta will be helping out as well. They were arriving completely under the radar and were in safe houses up and down the Point Pleasant Beach. Rangeman didn't want another drug lord on the streets as much as the police, who we were working with. As long as it wasn't Joe, I was good.

Ranger nodded. "Jeanne, stay on four and only go out when necessary. We want her to make the first move. We can go from there."

"What about Stephanie? There's no more room at the inn." Jeanne said patronizing.

"Stephanie will be staying with me."

Jeanne's big, fat mouth stayed shut after that. Ha, score one for me. She glared at me until Ranger let everyone go.

"Stephanie, can I speak to you for a moment?" Jeanne asked in the nicest, fake way.

Ranger gently squeezed my shoulder. "Come up when you guys are done."

She waited till everyone cleared the room. "I have to hand it to you, Stephanie. You did it."

"Did what?"

"You got the attention of the great Manoso."

"Jealous?"

"I would be. But he always comes back to me."

I raised my eyebrows.

"Remember the deal with DeChooch?"

"Sure. What about it?"

"Why do you think he ran so fast out of your apartment before the afterglow settled in?"

"That was you…?"

She crossed her arms. "Yeah, you see I had this really bad itch…"

She didn't need to continue. I fought the urge to throw up and punch her in the face. Instead I kept my version of the blank face on. "Well, it's good to know who got my sloppy seconds. Say, by any chance did he do anything differently with you that time?" Burg-girl bitch here I come. Bring it on. She paled a little and I knew I was right. "That's what I thought. I wouldn't count on him coming back this time." I started towards the door. "It doesn't matter who or what he did before me. I hope this doesn't put any dampers on your plans, Jeanne, because I plan to spend a lot of time on seven." I could here the men still in the control room clapping and I blushed a little. And with an extra swing in my hips, I headed toward the elevator and up to my man.