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Luke watched as they searched walls, behind pictures, and in unexpected spots like under the couch Sizing up the situation, Luke backtracked If Kyle had already found what they needed, then they could exit without the a

Just as Luke started down the hallway a third ht at hirabbed him The man elbowed him in the eye, but Luke didn’t flinch He maneuvered him and pulled his back to his chest, and wrapped his arhtailed it back to the library and ers to tell Kyle how many forms of trouble remained in the house

They were out of theby the tiht in a flash Ten minutes later, they climbed into Luke’s truck that he’d parked discreetly down the road

"Well?" Luke asked

"E onto the road "And we lost our chance to dig around elsewhere"

"Looks like Arel doesn’t trust the judge or he wanted whatever the judge owes hionfly person mentioned in the journals wants to cover his ass"

"Or just screw the judge," Kyle suggested "They’re already double-crossing Arel Why not double-cross each other? We need to figure out who Dragonfly is yesterday"

They did Kyle was right "And I need to get Julie out of this today" He couldn’t get back to her fast enough

Chapter Seventeen

Julie worked the crowd in thefro to focus on the conversation, but all she could think here was Luke? It was the question she’d silently repeated over and over between idle chit-chat Thinking about aon them outside that pizza joint only accelerated her heartbeat, and not with fear for herself It was the certainty that Luke could easily encounter another man, or men, eapons