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My uncle tugged his eyebrow, an smiled

"Effective iradedsupervisor of this operation"

Shock frozea seat "Bullshit," I breathed "They can't yank Tate's job out fro hiht, interrupting his repeated an that had blocked out the rest of his thoughts He didn't answer out loud, though, continuing to stare at me with that triumphant little smile Fifteen minutes can save you fifteen percent Fifteen minutes

It was Don who said, in a very heavy voice, "They did exactly that, Cat"

I felt like I'd been sucker punched by a sledgehaovernment officials who knew about this departovernment stupidity in action before But I was stunned that they'd do it in such a short ah ht sound childish, it was still true

"Congratulations," hat I bit out, acid penetrating each syllable "Does Tate still work here, or did you fire him in your first official act as boss?"

Soan had fired every nonhuman on the team That would make Cooper and the other veteran huust Then all of us could all sit back and count down the days until the Powers That Be learned the folly of trying to fight the undead with only regular soldiers When the human casualties piled up, the saan out on his well-dressed ass, begging Tate, Juan, Dave, and the others to co my mother to come back, and she hadn't even been out on her first her than ninety-nine percent of their best human soldiers

"Tate's been dean's intentionally vague response of, "Of course he's still employed here"

Junior officer My nails dug into my palms until the scent of blood an rileat him After all the times Tate had risked his life for this operation, not tohis tenure, he did not deserve a dery schan

"Not now," I said, my attention so focused on the injustice of it all that I answered him out loud Oops! "Uh, not later, but now you want to tell me why I'an didn't seem to pick up on it He clicked a small device, and a flat screen dropped down froets, don't you? I thought sardonically

The screen flashed a serial number and the word "confidential" before it focused in on an i in what looked like night vision His eyes shone unnaturally bright

"Who are you talking to?" he was asking, looking around a base My own voice flowed out in reply

"One of Waverly's forh the bearded e played out, complete with several close-ups of host to dive bomb Chris's body Son of a bitch! Atheir setup period, but how had Madigan gotten ahold of the footage? It was barely an paused the video once alked away from the camera's view "Do you knohere this was? On the Northeastern Investigative Paranormal Division's Web site, where anyone with a co on about how the supernatural really exists!"

I wanted to thuive Madigan the satisfaction of knowing how h to do it, he'd revealed an ian had indeed found this only because NIPD put the clip on their Web site, then he had nition database that was normally used for the world's most wanted terrorists and criminals Why was he so fixated on ator in order to get hiree to take a job for a friend's paranoid client I had no idea it was being fil that my conversation about Kramer had taken place where no caaze was blue steel "So you weren't, in actuality, co their actions?"

I forced an's chair close enough to be a barber about to give hihosts in any of my reports while I worked here Back then, my experience with thean learned that soent as any other person and could infiltrate places most covert operatives couldn't, plus could be controlled by certain peopleI suppressed a shudder ie, ghosts are incapable of coue iy, no more sentient or able to interact than a house plant"

"There goes your Christmas present," Don lasses down an inch on his nose to give eant stare, but I didn't flinch Either he was toying withabout Kra, and I could hope to brazen this out If it was the for wouldn't o over this video, and they see faint hazy distortions in the sahost had initiated contact with the subject" Madigan leaned forward "Explain that"

"They also said the distortions could've been faked," Don supplied rapidly "Without the original film, it's iinal filht I sat down for the first tian If you're running a paranore on your Web site that hasn't been doctored first? Who's going to hire ghost hunters who don't have any iht be believers, but they are still trying to le" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true">