The next morning was bittersweet, the trio returning to the home they'd shared for only a few months together. Angela tried not to cry as she pulled out of the hotel parking lot; the men behind her in Jake's truck.
The next few days spun into weeks of whirlwind packing and paperwork, deciding what would go with her to Baltimore and what would stay behind.
It won't be forever, she told herself. Only a few months, and they'd be together again.
She'd already laid out her plan. Go to Baltimore and settle in the hotel, come back for Christmas and begin her search for a decent apartment upon her return to the city. The office wouldn't be doing much over the holidays anyway, and it'd be more showing up to work through the entrance paperwork than doing any actual casework.
But as she started t
