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“Give us a minute”

“All right, but I’d like to get back to bed before the sun coet”

I wanted to punch the guy in the face but Reeve needed my attention more, so I bent my head and put my lips to her ear

“Roark?” I had to know if the mouse had finally turned the table on the cat She shook her head in the negative and her wet cheek touched ht kisses on it

“Who?”

“Zero I’d just gotten out of the shower I was getting ready for bed and he was just there all of a sudden I recognized hi for Conner He had a knife”

She pulled back and looked atto kill me”

I shushed her softly and pressed un come from?”

She looked away and started shaking again in earnest It made me scowl and squeeze her a little harder on her arun?”

“That’s istered firearm with no traceable serial number Where did it come from?”

She looked at me then quickly looked away She pulled away from me and wrapped her arround as she whispered, “He brought it in with hiht away and it ht

I opened my mouth to call her out on it but then looked at the other detective He atching her and watchingwould lead to more questions that couldn’t be answered

“Finish up with her while I go wake Race up and ask hiht back” I knew I sounded angry and far less sympathetic than I should be but I couldn’t help it She was lying and still ally She was still walking in the gray and I hated it It made me want to shake her when she looked like all she needed was a hug

Turned out I didn’t need to wake Race up Brysen answered the door ide eyes and told uy in the security center of the building trying to figure out how Zero had gotten inside the fortress She gave me directions to the basement and I went to find Race and his so-called security expert The door was open when I got there and I was immediately confronted with an entire wall of live cae, the hallways on each floor, the elevators, the roof, all of the

“What in the hell happened tonight?” I barked the question and neither Race nor the other guy juuy looked at me over his shoulder behind the fralasses and frowned He should look like a co on the keyboard and tinkering with knobs and dials that uy was as tall as me and almost as ripped He had tattoos over every visible inch of skin and a hard glint in his eyes that let me knoasn’t scared ofthe room

“What happened is so off and then opened the front door for that fucker He waltzed right in”

“What?”

Race turned to look at irls were just a few floors down froer in the compound was as much of a violation to him as it was to me