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She wasn't ready for a follow up and blurted out the first thing that came to mind "An infestation"

"Of the bounty-hunter phylum?" Elisa strolled out into the hall in that controlled, predatory way of hers with her head cocked to the left as she eyeballed Ta, not to ? You didn't tell us the laas after you when you hightailed it out of Idaho with your niece to escape her dad"

When would she learn? The truth always caught up with her in the end "Taz and Bianca knew" She let the heavy go-bag drop to the floor as she stood in the doorway to her office "It's not what it looks like"

"That's disappointing Rescuing your niece from a David Koresh wanna-be seemed pretty badass to me"

Tamara didn't kno

hat to do with that—complin as Jupiter—so she ignored it "I need to call Essie and warn her"

"And your phone isn't going to work"

For once, Tamara appreciated the other woman's ability to ferret out the unspoken details that mattered

"It's not inthe numbers of the phones used to call or be called by the B-Squad office My number is on that list about a billion times It'll stick out like a sore thumb I could lead Jarrod to Essie"

The other woular office anization like the B-Squad

"What you need is a burner" Elisa swiped one of several phones and held it out to Tamara "Here"

"I can't use this" She gulped She was only here until Essie's eighteenth birthday After that Essie would be safe fro custody of her Ta She wasn't part of the team "They're B-Squad’s"

A rare smile instead of Elisa's usual smirk "So are you"

Again, there were no words, so she took the phone As the other woman retreated into her office, Tamara called the nu once She hung up and dialed again This ti She punched in the nus

It stopped ringing