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Obviously, he’d put a lot of thought into this Maybe he should have been in charge of this investigation He knew a lotthan I did He looked at me expectantly, and I re I wrapped his coat tighter around s and asked, "What, exactly, did you do when you discovered that so at your notes?"

He frowned "What do you ot out pretty fast that there was a spy I know you didn’t tell anyone other than Merlin and me So either someone saw you react and made an assumption--"

"--or it was the spy who spread the rumor," he finished He worried his lower lip in his teeth as he thought "I don’t think I reacted all that visibly," he said after a while "Not where anyone could see me There may have been certain, um, well, words used in the privacy ofto do with the cold spread across his cheeks I had a hard ti He probably did it in soe "But after that I don’t think I looked too different fro I need to talk to Mr Mervyn about Did I look all that different to you when I got to your office?"

"I could tell so was up because you didn’t bother with the usual niceties before saying you needed to see the boss"

"Oh" He winced "Sorry about that"

"But even that wouldn’t have been enough for me to assu leap to take To come to that conclusion, someone would almost have to have knohy you were upset"

"So you think our spy was the one who started ru a spy?"

"Maybe" I wasn’t likely to find a ed forward "In fact, I have this theory that the spy isn’t really spying at all Yeah, if they find so, I’m sure they’d pass it on to Idris But ould really help hiht now, if we’re so busy suspecting each other and worrying about who the spy is that we aren’t actually getting any work done How have you spent your time for the last couple of days?"

He closed his eyes and groaned "I’ve been checking our security If you’re right, I totally fell for it"

"The security panel in R and D and the cas, or they could be proof that I don’t knohat I’ We do know that soot into your office, planted and veiled a caot into your desk, and looked at your notes We don’t kno much of that was really part of theirto talk about"

"The camera may have been to watch my reaction so they’d knohen to start the ru ru"

"Before I found the camera, I was pretty sure I’d narrowed our spy down to R and D because they’d be the ones ould have seen you react, but now it could be anyone, as long as at some point they had a chance to plant that camera It see happens to et back to the office, what do you want to bet that so, or a bomb planted, or worse?"

"Don’t talk like that"

"I’ out to be a real challenge I’ically and ossip"

"I’m sure there’s a way to set a trap I’ll see what I can come up with"

"From your spy books?"

He blushed adorably "You can learn a lot from Robert Ludlum"

I added to s I knew about hi"

We found a nearby deli and had a quick lunch punctuated by sood because my purse was still inbusiness he could expense it, but I had a feeling he wouldn’t It was another one of those non-dates that was as good as any date I’d been on, and it ith great reluctance that I gave his coat back to him in the lobby and headed up to o to lunch now if you want me to cover for you," I said to Trix when I returned