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“What are you thinking?” Cody asked

“I’ave Callahan,” she said, her eyes staring off into the distance “I’ about where a man would stash a computer he wanted to hide A computer that contains a deadly secret”

“Hide in plain sight?” said a deep voice fro there, his hair ru as if he’d dressed hastily

“Sorry,” Keira said “I didn’t mean to wake you”

This was said so perfunctorily Cody knew she didn’t really mean it There was a repressed excitement about her that reminded hiht his she’d uncovered about Vishenko

“I thought of so,” she told Callahan now, her eyes giving her away “I just wanted to ask Trace—”

“I heard,” Callahan said as he advanced into the rooht—we didn’t find a computer, but now that youI went through all of Steve’s papers, piece by piece, and found a receipt for that same type of laptop dated four days before he was murdered”

“You didn’t tell me that,” McKinnon said with a frown

“Four days?” Cody asked “That was before he talked to you about the militia”

“Yeah But after he started acting strangely” Callahan’s gaze transferred back to Keira “I didn’t think about it at the time, but now”

“Was there anyone he was particularly close to?” she asked urgently “Soirlfriend?”