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Chance and I had been enjoying our time together and trying to focus on our future. Keeping busy gave me less time to dwell on what happened to Jim, and we really did need to get things worked out. I was working on my computer in the office, when Chance walked in and handed me a mug of tea.
"I know we're juggling a lot of things, but there's something I need to confess," Chance said, as he sat down and turned my chair to face him.
"Fudge, Chance. I don't think I can take it right now. I don't want to hear your confession. If you've decided it's just too hard to make this work, just pretend a while longer."
He pulled me into his lap. "Babe, you're worth as much effort as it takes for us to be together. That's never going to change. I'm not sure how long we sat there making out in the office, but eventually Chance returned to his confession.
"I really do have something I need to tell you. Did you see any sign of bigfoot in the caves?"
"No."
"Did anyone from DHS mention finding any evidence of bigfoot at the observation site?"
"No. Cassie's the only one who saw anything bigfoot related. I heard the wood knocking when I was looking for her. Do you think they ever did live in the caves like Harry's journal said?"
"Definitely."
"I figured maybe they relocated after the episode when Tom was shot. I'm actually looking forward to going back to Renee's cabin and reading the information Cassie found about what experiments they were doing with them. If they really are responsible for all the help we've gotten out there these past few months, plus the first aid, they're a lot smarter than I expected. I wonder where they went?"
"I might know something about that."
Over the next hour Chance explained that while I was at my wilderness medical training, he wasn't on a hunt as I thought. He and Tom were relocating the BFFam. Well, not so much relocating them as encouraging them to move to a new home.
I asked a million questions and, as always, he patiently answered them as best he could. I don't know why I was surprised that he came up with the idea to relocate the BFFam to an area where there were other bigfoot. It made perfect sense. His thought was if the bigfoot that escaped the lab were unique in some way, the best way to keep them safe was to make it impossible for anyone to know which bigfoot were the special ones.
I admit, it almost made me feel sorry that Randerran wasn't around to realize he'd never get his experiment back.
"Is there a risk in allowing them to mix and potentially breed with other bigfoot? We don't really know yet what might have been done to them. Could their DNA have been altered in some way?"
"It was a risk I was willing to take."
I had a picture in my head of Chance as the pied piper leading a line of bigfoot through the forest to their new home.