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"Look, Luke," Murphy said "I know this woman matters to you But if she is on Arel’s radar, which I suspect she is, then she isn’t safe until he goes down"

"If she’s on his radar," Luke said "She won’t be an easy source of inforents inserted close to her"

"We do Well, we did" To"

Silence filled the rooetting someone new inside?"

"They aren’t," Blake said "That’s why they want Julie to help"

"And a new agent will need time to build trust," Murphy added, "that we don’t have"

"There’s more at stake here than you know," Blake said, "or I wouldn’t even have brought theuys The stories in the news about the rising cases of teen overdoses the past feware tainted Arel has to go down"

Luke walked to theand stared out at the street without really seeing it He didn’t want Julie in this and he only knew one way around that He turned back to the et inside the operation"

"How the hell are you going to do that?" Blake asked

"I’ll attend the art show and convince the judge that I have a secret hobby to support a few expensive habits"

"And that would be what?" Hendrix asked

"I acquire art that no one else can get their hands onfor a price"

A slow smile slid onto his brother’s lips and Blake leaned back and slid his hands behind his head "Pretty sood plan Now, he just had to convince Julie that not only was this a good plan, but that he was a good plan for her Every second he ith her, he was more certain The problem was, the more certain he became about her, the less she seemed to be about him It would bother him if he let himself think about it, and even mess with his head He’d never put himself on the line like this with a woman as he ith Julie But he couldn’t let it mess with his head, any more than he could let her push him away, because she needed hi dirty and dangerous that could easily turn deadly