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"Yep So pretty good Nice cushy work here at ho my ass halfway around the world for months on end"

"Why don’t you just quit if you want out?"

Grant shrugged "I can’t leave you without someone to cover your hairy ass, so hurry up and nail you a woave Grant a steady look "You know there’s not enough therapy or antipsychotics in the world to fix what’s wrong with you"

Grant waggled his eyebrows "But the ladies love it"

"Lord help them"

They sat in co in Caleb’s head wasn’t going away "Pul up that diagraain, would you?"

Grant did and handed Caleb the laptop Caleb stared at the screen, letting his eyes wander, trying to see a pattern Nothing stood out, but he kept looking at the bookshelves again Soht he’d rushed her into the shower, he’d seen footage of soh one of her books

Caleb went to his duffel, took out his own laptop, and puled up the surveilance footage He saw Grant’s shadow hovering over his shoulder as they watched the intruder cole book off the shelf

"Can you tel which one it was?" asked Grant

Caleb squinted at the screen "No" He zooe was stil fuzzy The only thing he could

Grant had seen it too and went to the sa out three of the books on the shelf "They’re al sketchbooks," he said, handing one to Caleb

"Why would someone be interested in her sketchbooks? I already checked for hidden comparth the book, looking at sketch after sketch Lana’s skil was impressive Whether she drew people or animals or landscapes, they were al detailed and lifelike

"Is your book ful?" asked Grant

Caleb flipped to the end "Yeah Yours?"

"The first one is, but check this out," said Grant "The second one is only half ful, and the last sketch is dated Deceht before she’d left for Armenia

Caleb tried to coe, but he couldn’t tel if it was the sa hidden in the book?"

Caleb felt a cold feeling of dread rol around in his gut Lana’s hand had shaken when she’d tried to draw a puppy She hadn’t put a new sketch in that book since before her kidnapping Al the cameras in her aparte of anything she drehether sitting at her desk or on her couch or on her bed

Whoever atching her wanted to knohat she drew, and he could only think of one reason why "Whoever is doing this thinks Lana saw so in Armenia, and they want to know if she puts it down on paper"

"What are you talking about? She was hooded What could she possibly have seen? And if she did see so, why haven’t they just kiled her?"

Caleb wasn’t sure how much Grant had been told They’d been briefed on the op separately, and Grant hadn’t been there in Ar alone until the very end "What do you know about Lana’s background?"

"Just that she was the only surviving roup of loonies trying to get into the Swared up" didn’t even come close to what Lana had endured, and Caleb had to bite back a hostile criticis what she’d gone through

Grant continued, "A tearoup of Sannabes in the process"

Caleb’s hands tightened into fists "There’s a lot olden eyes widened with understanding "You were there"

Caleb nodded, unable to speak past the clued in his throat

"That was the op you did solo, wasn’t it? The one you came back from al fucked up?"

Caleb stood and turned his back No as he going to talk about this with Grant He couldn’t stand to even think about it

"I can’t help if you don’t telto taketo take innocent civilians as hostages and kil them won’t stop until she’s dead, too"

Caleb felt like pounding a hole in the wal, like tearing the couch apart with his bare hands He needed to vent so stupid "I can’t tel you what I don’t know She doesn’t trust et before I showed up, but they didn’t kil her They ive theroup--an eneone At least, they haven’t claio"

Grant gave Caleb a feral grin "That was fun, wasn’t it?"

Satisfying one and they could have so to do with this She was hooded and kept in a separate cave fro the show What could she possibly have seen?"

"Maybe the hood slipped off and she got a peek at plans or blueprints?"

"Or people?" added Caleb "She could have seen one of theet the hood on"

"Maybe she doesn’t even know she saw them She could have had breakfast in the hotel before she was taken Could have been sitting next to one of theht we got them al, but those caves were extensive Soh one of the tunnels"