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Aidan chuckled, shaking his colleague’s hand “Enjoy both, particularly the latter You’ve earned it”

Philip snapped off a salute to Marc, who’d hopped into the back seat of the SUV next to Lauren, both to offer her any reassurances sheto distract Aidan while he drove

Settling himself behind the wheel of the other SUV, Philip pulled the door shut and flipped on the ignition Then, he waited, per Zero

Minutes later, both SUVs rolled out, Philip en route to Zagreb, Aidan and Marc en route to Osijek Airport

Lauren’s nightmare was at an end

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Crescent Woods Garden Apartments

Palo Alto, California

1 March

Thursday, 7:35 pm local time

Si to enact the plan to trap the mole

It had been al in Jia li’s apartment Since then, she’d been holed up in her car, cell phone on the seat beside her Her Bluetooth-ed headset in place, she remained connected to Terri

This was the waiting part

The fun part had been when she first returned to her car

Terri hadn’t wasted a minute