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Seth and Nick step to my side, and I lower my head, my voice steady, my mood leveled off "We all know this isn’t an accident, be it that he wasunder the influence of a drug that traveled a path throughtests," Nick says as if that actually makes this any better "And I have a h I doubt we’ll know ht"
"I’ to be shaken and I’d prefer she take comfort from me, than the press or the police"
In other words, her silence is all that matters, not her loss, not the murder of her husband "Murder" is the word that replays in my mind and I face them both "I want Emily here, by my side, where I know her brother can’t soive her the sa as Brody But I need to know if she’s safe here Can you protect her?"
"We can and will," Seth assures ree She needs to stay here, under our net, and with the people I trust to protect her I trustshifts with her brother, or the Geer"
"We also have several safe houses we can e you to approve the raids She’s not on Adrian’s radar right now, but that could change"
"Hire Ted," I say "I’ll have my CPA handle the money transfer" I shiftback and risking this failing I’ht after the raid happens and convince hiet out"
"You do not want to open the door to that relationship," Nick warns "It will seal your fate with hiht," I say "It will because I a to ensure he sees the writing on the wall, which ishim from the jail cell e with hi"
Seth juerous territory," he says, and I don’t e to his voice that he rarely allows to surface "The kind you hire me to tread for you"
"And you do so exceptionally well," I tell his need to come from me How soon can the raids happen?"
Both of theue, the fall of snowflakes now as heavy as the seconds that tick by, before Seth replies "We need a few days, logistically I need to get Brody’s wife out of tohichof herworieve for aher into a hole "I’ll expedite it in the "
A black sedan pulls up in front of us "My car," Nick says "I’ll drive you both wherever you want to go"
"I’ll walk," I say
"It’s snowing,space between h between me and my brother to suit me I start for the apartment, where Emily calls to me, where she would be my escape, when I rarely need one But I’m not so sure she isn’t the one who needs an escape, and not fro the men who are supposed to be a layer betweenbehind I intend to walk off this clawing guilt that Brody’s death stirs into me thanks to the damp snow, my mind on Emily, who I suddenly justneed to know is in our apart cold to the bone
I cover the next few blocks quickly, cutting through the garage to avoid attention, and then I am on our floor, and then our door, in athe door, I see the apartone out and soht to feel or want to feel again I start for the stairs, perhaps never before inis safe in the way I do with Emily now
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
SHANE
I cross the foyer, traveling the stairs two at a ti in the doorway, relief washes over me hard and fast, with the instant awareness of E That is how much I am in tune with this woman, howin my life There has only been family, and they have always been a mix of love and hate that was impossible to reconcile That made me leave and put distance between us Love from afar was somehow easier and better But with Emily, I don’t want her from afar at all I don’t want to lose her and for reasons I can’t explain, tonight I feel like I will Like it’s destiny, bound to happen
"Shane"
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