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"Will, stay on-screen Jenna, you’re with Will Co the site An officer e his bea his badge "Detective Jude Crosby We’re going into the site"

"Uh, of course," the officer said "Now?" he added

"Yes, keep an eye out, please"

"Yes, sir!"

Whitney was beginning to feel like a fool The dog and the wo, of course If she’d made it past Will and Jackson in the hallway, she’d have been arrested by the officer for indecent exposure

She bit her lower lip, waiting for Jackson to open the gate

And then she saw the dog He was halfway between the gate and the foundations, barking, wagging his tail, urging her forward

"I see hiela said

They followed the dog to the site, and down the stairs

They had all been right This special unit was special, all right

The group of the toward the hole, and they ht

He felt as if cold fingers crept along his spine, but Jude kept his face as expressionless as he could, and followed They were crazy, but…

They’d found the skeletons of the 1890s ht in an excavation, and the historians and anthropologists were still set up, painstakingly digging bit by bit What was Whitney going to find that the experts hadn’t?

He thought he heard a dog barking frohborhood of canines woke up

He looked to the sky It was a fullto wolflike behavior, and baying at the ra into the foundations had been kept to the other side of the structural wall

"Here," Whitney said

"Here, what?" Jude demanded, not able to keep quiet anymore

Whitney looked at him He’d come to know her very well He couldn’t exactly put a name to the way he felt about her, but he felt his body tense and his heart seeht, she was someone in his life as suddenly able to understand him She was sensual, she was ecstasy and she was a sweet, cooling shower of light that eased him when he needed itto lie to hi I read…or so here"

"This is a historical site," he re here Wethe historians or the criine the red tape He could iine what Deputy Chief Green would have to say to him "You were there? You allowed this, after teams of scientists had been called in?"

He’d be back on patrol, or worse His ass would be fired Generations of New York City cops in his family, and he was the first ould be fired

Jackson said quietly, "If Whitney is convinced, we need to dig Now" He looked at Jude Jude was the final barrier "I swear to God, it’s important if she says so"

Jude threw up his hands

Oh, yeah He’d be branded as special, too

He thought about the corpse of the wourney at autopsy that day, and he lifted his hands in a shrug "At this point, what the hell"

Once again, they headed to dig out the shovels and picks and spades He, Jackson and Jake took up the picks "I should help," Ellis said

Whitney told hi in the last sixhollow, or you’ll hit soft dirt"