Dearing and Grady had fallen asleep just after their lovemaking, one against the other, with their naked bodies shivering in the freshness of the night.
They had enjoyed the moments they had shared since those had brought comfort and pleasure to both of them.
But their sleep wasn't long since it was disturbed by a ringing sound, made by his phone.
He woke up first, and when Dearing opened her eyes, she noticed that he was standing near the chest drawer, with his back facing her, covered with long scars, inflicted by Andromeda's claws years earlier.
Then, with his phone on his ear, listening attentively to what was being said to him, he began to nervously pace in the room like a caged beast.
She looked at the time on the clock radio: 9:50 pm.
They had slept barely over two hours.
"The six groups?! And the procera too?!" He exclaimed. "Fucking hell…"
Grady continued to listen to his colleague.
"Stay alert," he told him at one point.
"Wait, an helicopter is coming…" Sembène's voice said shortly after.
He had a moment of silence before he spoke again:
"It's Hoskins' elite troops!"
Grady froze and clenched his fists.
"I'll be on my way, Barry," he said in an alarmed tone.
Grady hung up, put his phone on top of the chest of drawers and grabbed his clothes.
"We have to leave. I must return to the achillobators' paddock."
"I'll go with you," she suggested while she was putting her clothes back on.
He turned to her.
"You can but the boys not. They had their share of dinosaurs and jungle for today. They will be safer at the Administration."
Once she finished getting dressed, Dearing went to wake up the boys and five minutes later, they were all in the jeep.
As they drove to the Administration, Dearing called Cruthers to inform them that they were going to drop off her nephews there.
The chief technician told her that he will someone at the building's entrance right away to wait for them and while he had her at the other end of the line, he informed her that Hoskins and most of InGen's troops had left for the achillobators' paddock, to implement a plan that the board had just approved, something she and Grady already knew thanks to Sembène's call.
By looking in the rear-view mirror, she saw the headlights of a motorbike behind them, with its beams stopping just before the back of the jeep.
She couldn't tell who it was, and the bike followed them to the Administration.
As they were getting out of their vehicle, Dearing looked for it but has the motorbike's headlights had been turned off, she couldn't with the darkness around them.
Not caring much about this, she accompanied her nephews up to the door, leaving them with Krill and promising them to return as soon as possible before heading back to the jeep.
