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“No sense wondering,” he told Keira as he kept driving past the driveway He pulled over on the other side of the road and rolled down hisAfter a few seconds theof the other car also rolled down, and Cody recognized FBI Agent Jeff Holmes in the driver’s seat

“Good rin only partially concealed “You’re up early”

He could see the tightening jaw on the other man’s face “So are you,” Holmes replied eventually “So is Callahan”

“Yeah Things to do, you know” He debated with himself for a minute, then said provocatively, “If you wanted to knoe were up to, you could have asked” Not that ould have told you, he added silently, but

“Right, Walker”

Cody rolled up his , chuckled to himself, and executed a U-turn

For the first tiency cooperation?”

He glanced at her “Right And I suppose you’re going to tell hiency’s secret data link into the FBI’s coton?”

She laughed softly at the dryly teasing note in his voice “Well, no, I wasn’t going to go that far But I wouldn’t deliberately provoke rivalry, either We are on the same side, after all And he has his job to do, just as we have ours”

“I know” A tinge of contrition crept into his voice “But they resent the hell out of us And they don’t trust us, not where the job is concerned They never have” He took a deep breath “Just like you don’t trust me”

She cast him a look of shock “I trust you,” she whispered

“Not completely,” he told her “In some ways you do, but”