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She pushed the photos to the side, not caring about thees of notes, she nodded as she read key phrases Harrison had the pertinent details of what had happened As he disconnected his call, she looked up "You’ve got all the basics Perdue ran a sex ring for over a decade and we brought hi about you in there, though No uarded this ht hadn’ther disappointht now, she nodded "There wouldn’t be I’ive actual agents’ names Just details and facts"
His lance at the file, then looked back at her "So what’s not in there that I’?"
"Perdue hates me specifically and that’s why he’s in Miami This is very personal for hiht There’s no way Perdue should have been able to track me down, but he’s already killed four other people involved with the case--not agents, forainst hi after The fact that he was able to get out of prison is impressive in itself, but not unheard of But the fact that he has uess is whoever his contact is will be waiting for a big payoff When we brought Perdue doere convinced he had more bank accounts, but he never talked Why would he?" She snorted softly He’d been caught and given no chance of a reduced sentence He’d had no reason to cooperate with them
"Why is this personal for hiht as well have been carved from stone the way he stood there, cohed and pulled out one of the chairs at the island She collapsed in it as she shut the file "I befriended the woman he was…involved with"
"Danika Boyko?"
She nodded "The woman was--is--exceptionally beautiful He found her when she was just seventeen and kept her for hi her to his ‘stable’ of women, as he liked to call the polite to Neville Before she’d taken hianization down "Danika didn’t have any friends, but weobviously wasn’t an accident I targeted her and since our friendship ht I was a stupid socialite, he let Danika keep me in her life Whichones at his house Theall the time, as if he just needed to show off all his wealth Money he made on the abuse of so many women Girls, really" Soround sex-rings in London had been in their teens Mara still couldn’t get soes out of her head "When we took down his operation it was in conjunction with Interpol I wasn’t part of the raids in other countries, but I’ve seen the pictures of the woo on There had been soHarrison, her dreams had been haunted
Her husband’s face softened a fraction "Is that why you retired?"
Sing hard, she nodded "My boss told hest case he’d ever seen and I’d never have to deal with anything like it again, but the world is aThere’s orse out there and I just couldn’t do it any before rapped up the case and knew if I stayed in, I’d die inside" Leaving had been one of the hardest things she’d ever done because it had been all she’d known for so long But she hadn’t wanted to end up like soand other substance abuse problems The job would have slowly suffocated her
"Why Mia about the case anymore, but her "Because it’s as different fro I needed sooing back to Boston for a while, but…" She shrugged
"But what?"
"I met you and Miami started to feel like home so I decided to stay"
His jaw clenched, but he didn’t respond He slid the file closer to hih she knew Harrison would have already ht now, though about what, she could only guess Finally he looked up, his dark eyes penetrating "Tell ged Not because getting shot wasn’t a big deal--it had hurt worse than anything she’d ever experienced--but because it had nothing to do with the Perdue case or Harrison "I was alo, but it has nothing to do hat’s going on now" She’d been in Africa and the extraction had been hell, but she didn’t expand on it because telling hi him about all her cases was another entirely She respected her forues and former job too much to just spill all her secrets
His nod was sharp, as if he understood why she wasn’t expanding Harrison had scars all over his body, mostly knife wounds, and she’d never pressed him to tell her about them She knew the story behind solad he was respecting hers
"Will you tell me about it one day?" he asked quietly