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“I was just wondering if it was safe to enter If there were explosives in the SUV, they could have done soone all day”

“Want us to check for you?” Agent Holmes asked

He was just a little too eager, and Cody and Callahan exchanged glances “That’s okay, I’ve got these guys babysittingCody, Keira and McKinnon “I’ll let them check it out” He held out his hand “So, if that’s all, I’ll say thanks and wait to hear froet my SUV back”

Cody hid a grin at the masterful way Callahan had dismissed the FBI Jurisdictionally the FBI was on thin ice as it was, since no connection had as yet been established between the explosives found in Callahan’s SUV and the ones that had killed the two federal prosecutors Callahan was the local sheriff and hadn’t requested FBI assistance, and since technically they were trespassing on his property, Agent Holather up his tearace as he could muster

Cody waited until the FBI vehicles were out of sight before he started chuckling “Reet on your bad side,” he told Callahan

Callahan didn’t srain not to cooperate with hiaze moved from Cody to Keira “Not since you uncovered what you did on that New York SAC” He shook his head, a gri on his face “It’s a hell of a situation when I can’t trust the FBI”

“Sorry,” Cody said, ency rivalry They’ve always resented the agency, which is why they only grudgingly share inforuess we’re not ood reason”

“Like the junior senator from New York?” Callahan asked dryly

“Yeah Like that”

Keira and McKinnon had been listening quietly, but now McKinnon spoke “I don’t know about the two of you, but I’o in and you continue that conversation some other time?”

Dinner was long since over, and the four of the their plans for the next day Keira hadn’t said much, just listened to the threeto puzzle out theof Steve Tressler’s last words to Callahan Veni, vidi, vici Centaur Or center Oror what? If Callahan couldn’t figure it out, what makes you think you can?

Teeks ago she’d been convinced there was a link between the phrase veni, vidi, vici and the Praetor Corporation Now she wasn’t so sure Why didn’t you research that more when you had the chance? she berated herself She had researched the phrase, but she couldn’t find a link to the Praetor Corporation The only thing she had been able to coame, so she’d put it aside to consider later Then, when she’d started following the trail of David Pennington and his wife and son, she’d never gone back to it

Veni, vidi, vici—I came, I saw, I conquered It was a motto of some kind Like Semper Fidelis—Always Faithful—was to the Marine Corps But nothing she’d read about the Praetor Corporation, or NOANC for that anization

Maybe it was a holdover fro for Ro about that? She cast her ue She closed her eyes for a s, and then it came back to her My code naton picked the naht it was clever Maybe it was

Centurion A professional officer in the Roman army Not just anyone could be a centurion, she remembered She’d read souidelines, including having already served a few years in the ton had seen his militia, a reincarnation of the Roman army? Or was it just a coincidence?