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His signal had popped up just west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and o just as Ty had been ordered Noas near the state line of Michigan and Indiana, holding steady

Burns didn’t understand why Jonas exited the private washroo just showered, and he ca the computer screen in consternation

“Why are they heading north? Are they evading someone?”

Burns shook his head and clicked a button that rid onto one of two flat-screen televisions on the panel on the far wall “They would have called in if they’d picked up anyone following them or run into trouble”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes”

Burns glanced at the other television on the wall, displaying aacross the Great Lakes, the same weather syste It was ht, and Burns narrowed his eyes at the screen again With the twoon

Ty was lost in the snow Burns found hi as he rubbed at the bridge of his nose

“What?”

“He’s lost Probably has no idea he’s in Michigan”

“Lost? Does your man kno important this op is?”

“It doesn’t o to retrieve a orks operative or to Kentucky to get oddamned fried chicken, he does his job and he does it well”

Jonas, of course, knew Ty Grady He’d known Ty since he was born But Jonas didn’t knoas the one Burns had sent on this mission, and he didn’t plan to tell Jonas that either, not unless he had to

Burns had also debated over the benefits of telling Ty and Zane what they were getting into, and in the end he had decided it was best to leave them need-to-know He didn’t knoho had followed Jonas’ steps here or who had ears on him, and in the end, the less they knew, the less likely they were to be killed if they were captured

Burns also knew that if they were aware of the whole story, they would fight and die for a cause that wasn’t theirs si for Jonas, just like he’d do anything for Burns or his father Burns couldn’t let that happen Jonas was practically family—a man Ty knew and respected as a dear friend of his father—but Burns wouldn’t risk Ty or Zane for hi orders, than co

Jonas looked at hi minute, then nodded and turned away His handthat burner phone, a nervous gesture Burns had noticed more than once

“Do you want so the restlessof a husband as beyond late for dinner

Jonas shook his head “The less she knows, the better”

Burns nodded It was the mantra of every dark operative in history

He looked back at the screen, a stab of guilt going through him as he stared at the blue dot that was Ty and Zane Those boys had given up too much for this kind of work Far too much

They had stopped uessed they had bedded down in the blizzard despite the early hour A blizzard wouldn’t stop the h Nor would it stop Julian Cross

Chapter 8

THEY had the honeymoon suite Two rooms with the bedroom in the back, no s, and one door in and out To escape that bedrooh the other half of the suite It was so perfect that Zane was afraid to find out what the catch was