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"I’ll organize it," Bart said "Glad you’re safe"

"Thanks" Ending the call, Maxfor a ride to the airport

"Shouldn’t we stay for the investigation?" Sophia asked

"No point" Max wanted Sophia out of here, wanted her safe "I know Chen, and she’s a hell of a detective She’ll keep us in the loop if they discover so our statements over a comm link"

"And if this is connected to Nikita rather than Bonner," Sophia said, "then we need to be in San Francisco"

"Yeah, because even Psy sure as hell wouldn’t attempt to blow up a cop fivesootten too close to so--"

"--or ere meant to be a distraction," Sophia coet was i out a cop? The fact that he was huer--all politics aside, Enforcement command would take the rinned as Lucas stopped at a small corner shop to buy her an ice cream "Thank you, Mr Hunter"

"You’re welco" He shook his head as they pulled away frooes"

She took a contented bite of her chocolate-coated chocolate ice cream "Don’t make me mad"

He shuddered "I think you’ve fulfilled your quota of crazy today"

She made a face at him, able to hear the cat’s humor in his voice "There is no quota, not once you start carrying around a bowling ball in your belly" A little pat to reassure the baby, who appeared to be fast asleep "Not that I don’t adore our little bowling ball"

A fond glance fro into work?"

"Because they need you to sign docuhed "It’s such a beautiful day"

"Let’s take a drive through the Presidio before we head in," he said, referring to the forested region just outside the city "You can find a nice sunny spot to eat your ice crealance, war her body at the remembrance of exactly why he was so sleep-deprived "Are you coe"

Max and Sophia had gone over every piece of evidence related to Nikita’s case twice by the tiht "What are wethat they were being blind to soames just didn’t fit

The vanilla of Sophia’s shampoo whispered across his senses as she bent her head over her organizer, an invisible caress "Whatever it is, it h-risk location" They’d both realized the boht hours Which meant--"We have to work on the assumption that the timeline has to be very, very short by now"

"A strike anyti deal" Max had spoken to Nikita prior to boarding the airjet, reconfir’s h brushed his

The fleeting touch was a bal him "Nikita’s people--anyone who’ll be out of easy reach for a long period?"

Sophia tapped the screen of her organizer with quick ue, Berlin, Tokyo, hardly out-of-the-way locations And any who are going are co back within a week or two at most"

"It has to be an issue of access," Max ure it out--"

"You, Max" Sophia’s eyes turned an intense, incredible night violet "They orried you would figure it out--you’re the wild card in this situation, a huht processes they can’t predict"

"Okay, so a target a Psy wouldn’t immediately think of, coupled with a deadly--" Ice crawled through his veins, right to his heart "No"

"Max?"

"Where the hell did I see it?" Reaching into the seat pocket in front of the the selections on the big screen e boarded, remember?"

"Yes, but what did you--"

"There!" He stopped on the front page of a national tabloid The headline was: Scoop! Sascha Duncan Pregnant! Below that was another headline in a slightly snant Mate Captive!

Max put down the module "Bastards are afraid the cats really are about to put Sascha into hiding"

A sick feeling blooloarood, so their race needed to protect, not harm "Our cell phones won’t work" As a result of accidents in the twentieth century, all devices were now automatically blocked while an airjet was in the sky

Max was already rising "I’ll talk to the steward, get an eency call out"