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Reluctantly, Logan turned to her again

Dash alhed at the resolute look on his brother’s face as he tried to keep his gaze north of Margo’s brsts beneath the soft terry robe

"Rowdy said he called you about the fire?"

"Yes"

Logan rolled a shoulder as if to relieve tension "Yeah, well, we have soured since ere out I ive it to you in person"

"Less chance of plans being intercepted that way," Reese told her

Dash realized they were all still worried about controlling things, and the possibility of any residual corruption left at the station

"Why don’t we sit in the kitchen?" Dash asked "They can eat while they talk"

"Fine" Margo led the way

Reese glanced at her ass in the robe, then quickly away He looked guilty as hell about it, too

Glaring at Dash, Logan fell into line behind Reese

It was too damn funny how they both continued to see her in such a one-dimensional hich, in part, probably contributed to the difficulty Margo had in corips with the different facets of her personality--facets he’d brought to the fore If everyone else saw her only as a severe authoritarian, how hard must it be for her to show her softer, more vulnerable side?

While Dash divided the rest of the food on plates for his brother and Reese, Logan pulled out a chair and dropped into it "A few hours before the fire started in that building, sohborhood kids found kerosene duht it looked suspicious Cannon says the kids claimed it was tossed on the walls, all over the floors and on sorave reservations, Reese sat next to Margo "Cannon, of course, called us Before we could get there, though--"

"Fire?" Dash filled in

"The rear door had been pried open--the boys said they found it like that They cut through that back alley on their way ho baskets down at Cannon’s rec center"

"Good thing they didn’t stuine what ht have happened to the kids if they had

"That’s what Cannon said," Logan confir that way anymore"

"They need to avoid all alleyways, into talk to so that way a little more often, especially around the tieted abefore the fire marshal has a report?"

Dash noted her quiet, lethal , she was back to being a lieutenant, chillingly furious, probably over the fire and the possible danger to the kids Not giving a daht, he reached over and took her hand

Brows raised, she looked at his hand, nonplussed, and her gaze crawled up his arm to his face

He didn’t so accepted the contact and curled her fingers with his

It took Logan a second to shake off his discomfort "Chief Williams said there were a series of s fronited, but he’s leaning toward deliberate vandaliso stewed in silence a moment "No one knoe didn’t find evidence Whoever started the fire didn’t expect kids to call it in so quickly They probably assuround But it’s still standing?"

"It is," Reese said "The fire is a s--also vacant--were affected," Logan said "Except for soo looked around the table at each of them "We could let word out that we found a few leads Yes?"

"Tell a few lies?" Logan slowly nodded "Might push the bastards to show therinned "Want me to put the word out?"

"No" A sly smile eased away her frown "Given their connections, I think it’d be better if Cannon and Rowdy put the word out on the street"

"Hell of an idea"

"And if that doesn’t work" Margo drew a deep breath "I could make myself available"

"You already did that," Dash said, starting to feel uneasy

Logan scowled at her "She h Dash’s veins "No"

"It’s not up to you," she said mildly "And, no, it wouldn’t beinto his brother--but Logan wouldn’t reed with her? Fuck

"Let’s try this first" Logan stood, his cell phone in hand "I’ll get hold of Rowdy right now"

Reese alsoto stop by tonight to check on the kids who saw the whole thing anyway"

With satisfaction plain on her face, Margo watched theet started