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It wasn’t clear from his tone whether that was a compliment or a complaint

"I haven’t surprised you yet," I replied "But I’htly intrigued "Your sister wouldn’t approve," he said, co that he liked towering over me, that it didn’t matter that physically, I was s held captive by a rogue Secret Service agent," I said, not beating around the bush "President Nolan has received a ransootiate" The corners of Keyes’s lips twitched It wasn’t a sot a bomb strapped to her chest" I kept my voice calet the governor of Arizona to issue a pardon, she’s going to die"

After exactly three seconds of silence, William Keyes took a seat across froovernor of Arizona?"

"If you don’t, you know someone who does"

This ti on the word, "are very much like your sister"

I could hear, in those words, that he’d been fond of Ivy once Keyes stiffened, like he’d heard the sa and didn’t appreciate the re back in his chair, "your sister is no longer my concern She put Nolan in office Clearly, she prefers his judgment to mine"

Whatever bad blood there was between Keyes and the president, thePeter Nolan make it to the White House

Luckily, I hadn’t coiveness

"She’s notthey weren’t what he’d expected--knowing that I wasn’t what he’d expected "She’sout who ain in an instant "What precisely are you trying to say, young lady?"

"I’ that theand recently enlisted I’avethat from theshe can to keep you fro at me now, as if he could see intohave Ivy and Adam known each other?" I asked him I didn’t wait for an answer as I pelted hi me how to drive? Or that the first time he ever saw me, he looked at me like the bottom had dropped out of his stomach?"

The oldin rip turning his knuckles white

"Did you know," I said slowly, "that I heard Ada me to DC was a mistake because she’d otten under Adam’s skin, that you had no idea how she’d done it I have a theory"

Keyes took a step forward "You think Adam is your father"

There was a ferocity in his voice when he’d said those words, like it took every ounce of determination and power he had just to choke out that one statement

"I asked him," I said "He didn’t deny it We’d need a DNA test to know for sure, but a DNA testthat soo into politics"

William Keyes had barely interacted withI knew, instinctively, how to go straight for his heart

"You have a plan for Adam," I said, "and I doubt that I a to blackmail ht he sounded pleased