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He could hear Keira saying, The reference to Julius Caesar could ions, crossing the Rubicon Even theelse?
Then as if Callahan were standing right next to hi, One other word at the very end, but I couldn’t really understand hi like center or centaur, but I can’t swear to it
Ro, he leaned down over Keira’s shoulders and typed C-e-n-t-u-r-i-o-n Pennington’s code name for him
“And we’re in!” Keira exulted as the screen opened into a standard co in her face She turned back to the co the mouse pointer over the icons scattered across the desktop Cody recognized links to the naa Then the ht of the screen
Veni, Vidi, Vici
“It’s an online video game,” Cody whispered, stunned
“I know,” Keira said, but so low he had to strain to hear her “It caht”
He frowned “But you never said that this ”
Keira kept her head down, staring at the co,” she said in an undertone “I didn’t want” She drew a sharp breath “Actually, when I was researching a link between the Praetor Corporation and that phrase teeks ago, I caame by that name,” she confessed, as if she’d failed hiht”
Cody reached down and turned her face so she had to look at him “Don’t,” he said “We’re a teaht be wrong Hell, I’ to make his point
She hesitated, then said, “You’re right I should have trusted that you and Callahan wouldn’t hold it against ”
Cody realized Keira hadn’t included McKinnon in that statee of jealousy rose in him Apparently she trusted her partner more than she trusted himand that bothered hied, trying to squelch his unreasonable jealousy of McKinnon In some ways Keira still didn’t trust hi he could do about itnot herenot now
Chapter 19
They drove in silence to Callahan’s house with Tressler’s computer stowed in the back of the truck, the tonneau cover safely concealing it fro but couldn’t bring hi to ter it Keira’s lack of unquestioning belief sliced into Cody’s psyche in a way he hadn’t thought possible “Trust ht, and she’d answered, “I will”
She trusted hiether she had deift of her body in a way she had done with no other man
She trusted him with her heart That incandescent moment when she had cradled his face with her hands and whispered, “I love you, Cody,” would warm him until the day he died
But she didn’t trust him the way he yearned for her to do—with every fiber of her being McKinnon was more important to her than Cody here her as concerned And her as her life Trust me in that, too, he wanted to plead, but he knew faith and reliance couldn’t be won that way—not ords They had to be given freely; they had to come from the soul And in her soul she didn’t trust him completelynot yet
Just before the driveway leading to Callahan’s house, Cody noticed another car parked down a little way on the side of the road It wasn’t the same one that had followed the four of them earlier, but it was too far away for him to make out the license plate or see if there was anyone in the car