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The blood of his wife, as well as the blood of Aet the vendetta they have against the two of you," Sebastian warned therowing in strength and numbers, Khalid The men you helped capture in DC was only a small number of them"
Khalid ell aware of that
"That mission you and Shayne cooperated as one Ayid and A," Abra cold and hard once again "It is only a matter of time, Khalid, before they learn for sure of our involveain I do not wish to see you lose what I lost so long ago Your woman must remain safe"
"There’s no way they can find out" Khalid shook his head "I’ve learned how to coverhe and Abra those years in Saudi That inexperience had cost them Lessa’s life, and nearly their own
"Ruued "Just as I know Shayne has warned you One of the terrorists involved in the DC cell ed to escape back to Saudi He carried the tale that he saw you when the agents swarmed into the safe house for the arrest Were you there?"
"The chance that Ayid and Aht
But they hadn’t been there They had returned to Saudi hours before the Hoents had overtaken the small cell
It had been a far different scenario than the one of ten years before in Saudi, just outside Riyadh
There had been no agents then, just a fighter jet and a bo sun just outside the city The eight- with Ayid, Aman, and their wives That time as well, his brothers’ luck had ridden fast and hard upon their backs Ayid and Aman had slipped from the hut to meet with a contact they had approached within the SaudiRoyalPalace A cook who had conspired with the and his immediate family
The Saudi Royal Air Force had struck before they returned to the hut, and the information that it was Khalid who had supplied their location to the Air Force had been on the cook’s lips when he met with the brothers
Ayid and Aman had knoho to strike, just as they had known that Abram would have been involved in whatever Khalid was involved in Abram and Khalid hadn’t been at the palace when the brothers had returned, but Lessa had been And because Abram had shared his wife’s body with Khalid, Azir had stood back and allowed Ayid and Aman to brutalize her
He had blamed Lessa for what he called Abram’s and Khalid’s "unnatural desires"
"Ayid and Ah," Abram informed him about the most recent ether once again to provide the information of the movements of this cell have risen due to the information the terrorist carried back to Ayid and Aman’s ears after the raid He swore he saw you"
"And what does Azir think?" Khalid asked curiously
"So far, he has Ayid and Ahed heavily "It is a hold thatAnd it is one that Ayid, especially, will find a way to work around"
Ayid was older than Aman He was the leader and the planner, while Aopher, the pitiful sidekick who follohichever direction Ayid took
Khalid could feel rising inside hiainst him
And what better way to strike than to come after a wo was daht
"Khalid, Zach has his men on this as well," Shayne said, his tone low as Khalid rose slowly froardens "There’s no way you can hide the fact that there’s so between you and Marty Not now"
Khalid wanted to shake his head He wanted to deny that he had done anything, that he had ever placed her in danger But there was no denying it He had done just that He had drawn her into the ame of his life, and he was damned if he kne to pull back now
"Ayid and Aainst both of us," Abram reminded Khalid "I cannot stay and help you protect her"
No, he couldn’t stay He would not be Khalid’s third Not that Khalid had planned to go that route Abram had his responsibilities in Saudi, and Khalid had his here--despite the bond that had developed between the the years Khalid had spent in Azir Mustafa’s sion The brothers, so close in looks and temperament, had found they had shared si hunger to share their lovers
"When are you going back?" Abrah time away frobusiness in Riyadh
"In a few days," Abraht with ether over thecarown in recruits I counted more than thirty men last week Ayid and Aman were there, but, as always, their faces were covered There’s no way to prove it’s them by pictures alone"