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Her head shot up before she could get her reactions under control “That’s good”
Lucas grabbed her low on her waist and swung her around so her back was to theand lowered his mouth so it was only a fraction of an inch away from her ear, no doubt for cover just in case her stepfather spotted thearden outside his office “How?”
Adrenaline and desire had her strung out and feeling like the only thing anchoring her to the earth was Lucas’s hand on her hip She inhaled a shaky breath and focused not on the vivid blue-green of his eyes but on the security and honesty he represented despite being the last man on earth she should trust
“He may not be Rolf’s second-in-co that happens on Fare Island and a lot of what happens off of it” Her words caet to his cabin”
This could be it
If the Sparrow still kept his paper notes tucked away under the false bottom of his desk drawer like he did when she was a kid, then they’d have all the inforageh the hedgerowto the Sparrow’s cabin should have been like taking the final exhilarating steps in aleap off one of the fjords and hoping like hell she wouldn’t break apart on the rocks below
…
Lucas did a double take The Sparrow’s cabin was located behind a green door secreted in the leafy wall of the hedgerow maze that opened to reveal a quiet courtyard with a small stone house in the middle It looked so quiet and serene it set off every one of his warning sirens Keeping one hand on the door handle and one wrapped around Ruby’s ar forward, he scanned the periuard dog, or security system
Following Ruby inside the courtyard, he took a second look, trying to locate anything that either looked out of place or too perfect
“You won’t find it,” Ruby said, s
“What?”
“The surveillance equipment”
He uys, but he wasn’t one of the to warn her about? They were right, and when it cauys, no one was better at it than he was He’d find whatever security the Sparrow had no ht
“Why’s that?” he asked
Her full lips turned that half sirl loved giving him his comeuppance “He doesn’t have any”