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Royce gave Blake a pointed look "It won’t matter if Alvarez is already dead andhihtly, "then on’t need to waste taxpayer ivemy own ass"

"I haven’t seen you act like it’s worth protecting in two years," Royce bit out

"Stop pushing me, Royce," Blake said softly "You and I both knoon’t take us to good places"

They glared at each other and Kara cast Luke a pleading stare He sighed and scrubbed his clean-shaven jaw "We have a tea for us to tell them what happens next," Luke stated "What do we know about the kidnapped wo this end of the operation," Kara said, eager to get everyone talking again "We don’t knoho the buyer--or buyers--are, or where the girls are being taken"

"Huoes," Royce said "It doesn’t surprise me the cartel is into this"

"Yeah, well," Blake inserted, "funny thing about that Mendez hired s fro about that slanced at Kara "And you’re too exposed to work this from the front line, Kara"

"Don’t start, Blake," Kara warned "You know I’esting you get out I’ you ith our team and let me handle the up-close-and-personal with Mendez and his crew"

"I have access to docuive you"

"He is suspicious of you being more than a secretary Add to that we caht, who is also working with Eduardo in the trafficking operation They’re going to worry that you’ll put the pieces together and knoho has been doctoring the reports Mendez gets You’re not only a target, you’re feet sold off like the other woood agents know there’s a time when you pull out of a cover We have a tea to find out where the wo that happen"

Blake’s cell phone rang and he pulled it from his belt "Mendez," he reported, and then answered the line Kara would have tried to read the conversation but it lasted all of thirty seconds Blake set the phone on the table "Mendez wants me and Kara in his office in an hour"

"Did he say why?" Kara asked