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She opened her eyes and raised her ar it on a little thick weren’t you?”

“I’ve been doing this double-agent thing quite a bit longer than you I knohat it takes” He scooped her up in his ar all the tiain We gotta make sure as many people as possible see me run to the main house with dead you in my arms so when you start over in Montana or Maine no one has any idea It has to look real With any luck, the bad-guy grapevine will have your obit posted before the day’s out”

“Are you going to cry?”

Jasper grinned down at her “I’nash e you They thought Rolf was bad Just wait until they get a load of me”

The poor fools had no idea

…

Thirty-thousand feet above the North Atlantic Ocean on the Silver Knights ive a shit, that everyone had breathed a sigh of relief when he’d locked himself into his small office in the back of the plane Tension had chewed a hole in his gut and worry was chipping away at as left

He hated not being in the group of agents boarding Henriksen’s ship right now He loathed being in any plane he wasn’t piloting He despised that all he could do was pace and watch the clock until word came in that the operation had been a success More than all of that though, he couldn’t stand being away from Ruby

He didn’t give a shit what anyone said, as soon as thisto find her If that hts, so be it He ed to Ruby

Three quick raps sounded on his office door

“Enter”

Clausen walked in, arrim expression

“We have him, sir,” Clausen said “The Elskov Royal Navy picked hiuns and ammunition, but it was no match for a battleship”

Good nehich didn’t explain the way she couldn’t rasped for possibilities Could Rolf have double-crossed Henriksen? Were the guns in the wind? That was the last thing they needed

He grabbed the bottle of antacids on his desk and shook out a few tablets into his hand “And the weapons?”