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Max called Lucas the instant they landed "She’s safe?"
"We’re both fine--you the reason Nikita knew?"
"Sophie h the PsyNet"
"Clay and Dorian have some intel out at our HQ that you should see--probably shouldn’t co, indrawn breath "And, Cop--thanks"
Hanging up, Max nodded to Sophie "She’s fine And we ht have a lead" He waited only until they were inside the car before reaching over to close his hand over her thigh, his pal but the material of her skirt He understood exactly how feral the DarkRiver alpha was feeling at that moment If Faith hadn’t warned them about the bomb"I want to strip you to the skin and drive into you until we both screa control before he could begin driving Neither of them said another word until they walked into the DarkRiver building Clayroo
The sentinel with his blue-eyed, blond good looks raised a hand "Here’s the lon--the assassin I found ate so like it outside of historical dramas"
"I worked a case where a small cult co with bleak ier ones that should’ve protected, not harmed "They used a wine laced with poison"
"It speaks of fanatical devotion," his J said, "rather than professionalism"
"But he was a professional, too" Dorian showed theear, the way he’d been waiting there long enough to have left DNA behind, if you knohat I "
"Where’s the body?"
Clay was the one who responded "Enforceue"
"And the other one?" Max asked
The sentinel looked disgusted "He figured out ere on to hi him down in a public area--Enforce in a cell not talking right now No doubt he’s Psy"
"There’s so else" Dorian picked up what looked like a business card off the table "This was left behind in the roo"
"That’s evidence" Max scowled "You’ve fucking contaminated the hell out of it"
"Trust me," Dorian said, "you don’t want that in the systelanced down to see that the card carried a single line of text--what looked like a co it over, he read the handwritten note: Sascha, DR HQ
"I recognize that code," Sophia said in a quiet voice "It’s Councilor Duncan’s private line"
"Very well guarded," Dorian said "And available only to a select few"
Max shook his head "Nikita isn’t behind this And the handwriting--the tioing to insert that once they’d hit Sascha, iven them the location and time" She placed the card back on the table "But the fact that they have this number further implicates someone in Nikita’s inner circle"
"Another Councilor would also have it--or be able to get it," Max said, eyes narrowed "No question that Nikita has a er power behind this"
"I’ve already got our inforht be related" Clay said with a tightly held fury "You need us, we’re there"
Max tapped the card "What did you find?"
Dorian’s scowl did nothing to lessen the sheer beauty of his face "Only usable print was--surprise, surprise--Nikita’s"
"They really thought you were going to fall for that?" Max had seen the way the cats operated--they were highly intelligent predators
Dorian’sSascha, ouldn’t have been thinking too straight The leopard would’ve gone for blood"
And, Sophia realized with a chill in her heart, the ensuing carnage would have begun a war
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Nikita thought long and hard about her nextIf she was careful
Picking up her cell phone, she input a code