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I reach the entrance to the restaurant and I don’t hesitate even a moment I pull open the door and enter

CHAPTER NINETEEN

SHANE

"Table for one?" a hostess asks at the saaze lands on a rounded booth in the back where my brother now sits with Adrian

I step around the woets, neither looking up until I’ doith the that even in a UFC T-shirt, Adrian has this edge of arrogant money about him that reminds me of my father, who I’d once aspired to be, and perhaps reserowls "What are you thinking?"

Adrian arches a brow "I’d be curious to know the sauests"

"I assume my brother told you the FBI is at the BP facility"

"He did," Adrian confirms, "and since you’re understandably concerned, I’ll excuse your intrusion This is uneventful I told you Your facilities are clear"

"We are on their radar," I say "An insider toldthey’re calling Sub-Zero"

"Because I call it Sub-Zero," he says "And they’ve been looking into it for a while It doesn’t show up in tests"

"We have a stockholder that’s in sports," I say "We hold a drug coerously visible?"

"There’s a reason we left Mike Rogers out of this," Adrian says, and I see the irritation flash in Derek’s face, as if his hand has been shown before the vote And it has been I was right about Mike He’s too cautious, with too erous waters by choice Adrian sips his whiskey "He’s the perfect cover, don’t you think?"

"That’s nothing shy of insanity," I say, treading cautiously so as to not get Mike killed "He’s a net for attention just like BP is as a pharmaceutical company Made worse by Derek’s careless actions"

"Spoken by the brother afraid to ever take a darab a sheet of paper, which I unfold and set in front of Adrian "That’sapproval The FBI found out"

Adrian inhales a slow, calculated breath and looks at Derek "Is this true?"

"It was necessary," my brother says, and what comes next is so fast, so unexpected, I don’t have time to prepare h my brother’s hand, all the way to the table

Holy fuck

Derek cries out in horrific pain and the brother inat hi at et it out!"

I don’t aze locked with Adrian’s cold, brutal stare, as he says, "Shut up," to Derek, "or you will not like the results"