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I add to Darius, “And you were in the sairlfriend who came back into his life and was now to be his wife “At this point, I can understand the tabloids being all over your stories They have some juice to them But before…” I let ht to fill their minds

Gabe seesthe senator down?”

“I think that the senator pisses off people every day,” I explain “I think that those same people have the means to acquire that kind of apparatus I also think they have the motive to listen in onthey can use against the senator, because who is the senator’s closest confidant?”

“You,” Darius offers

I nod “And who are my closest confidants?”

“Us,” Micah adds

“Precisely It makes sense that if soh me It also makes sense that they’d look for uard down “There are stillpieces here” I see the question in everyone’s eyes, Is he right? But I know I aht track”

Darius watches me a moment, his chiseled jaw clenches twice “I can see where you’re going with this But ould the stories about us be printed, too?”

“Perhaps it’s a decoy” I offer the logical assu up dirt on all of us to make this look personal, when it’s not that at all”

Micah snorts “Which is exactly hoe’ve looked at it since all this began” He shakes his head in frustration, placing his beer down hard on the coffee table in front of hi to corrupt him?”

“I get the iine as a senator, he’s getting soentle pushing, nothing too forceful”

Darius asks, “But it could turn into so to worry about?”

I nod “It can always becoame of politics”

Gabe druainst his beer bottle, still resting on his armrest “What exactly does that mean for us then?”

“It means you need to be extremely careful”