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"FBI, show me your hands!"

Eli dropped his weapon and put his hands on top of his head The SWAT tea instructions as they secured each rooent Harris He lowered his hands and let out a heavy breath He’d been strangely cal and his pulse pounded like a druot hi with people The SWAT teaents, and then a team of paramedics barreled in He watched as they loaded Justice onto a stretcher

One of the paraent Harris "He’ll be okay It was in the shoulder But the bullet needs to come out"

Eli crossed to the french doors Tank stood on the lawn of the house behind his He raised his hand in greeting and Eli waved back

Agent Harris approached "Great work here, Elliott Since Zeus is still alive, hopefully we can get all the inforhts still ju he’d learned "Did you knoas behind all this?"

Agent Harris’s lips thinned "I’ood work"

Eli pushed away from the counter and headed toward the back of the house

"Where are you going, Mr Alexander? We need to debrief you"

Eli didn’t even slon "Consider et her out and to a safe place"

WHEN THE DOORS to the panic room slid open, Kay and Mara both scrambled to their feet Eli’s head appeared in the small entryway Kay’s heart leaped

"It’s safe to come out now It’s over"

She ran across the room and collided with his chest He lifted her off her feet "It’s all over"

They followed hi room Mara ran to her brother and jue done to the room It looked like the afterlass over the floor and the back door was smashed in

For the next two hours, they waited as the police questioned the that had happened Kaylee was already tired of telling the story, and she hadn’t even told anyone she knew yet

Just then, the doors to the house opened and she heard a fa et out of ot up froents he’d introduced her to "Mo past all the FBI and ATF agents in her way "Of course it’shere?"