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Soon, a reon Head would be finished toying with Johnson He’d order him killed His partners, as well Xiao would personally carry out those orders, inflicting the greatest a their lives

The pleasure would be all his

Sloane let herself into Derek’s apart into the closet and shrugging out of her jacket

Long, hard day Cranky hu fan of consultants, their seh she had been interested enough to stick around while Sloane trained the staff of Adler and Berber, the prominent security company that had hired her to educate theotiations That HR exec was singing a different tune by the time Sloane left

It was a in Sloane did her job, the company was satisfied, and she had time to check in privately with the first shift of the security team she’d hired to protect her parents The relief team was on the job now, and she checked in with them by phone

So far, so good No one else following her father oraround the apartment

That had to be good news It meant that, more than a full week after her father had been interviewed by the FBI, he wasn’t being regarded as an immediate threat—not to the Chinese killer and not to the Bureau

Who was she kidding, she thought with a frown That whole line of thinking was a crock

She i with sharks and she knew it

Her father and his art group colleagues were convinced that they’d coh their respective FBI interviews unscathed

She knew better, even without having been there

FBI agents were pros at questioning If every roup had parroted the exact sa his lines, then red flags would be raised She’d tried to counteract that She’d talked her father into calling all the other guys after his own e them to vary their exact recollections of what had happened so they wouldn’t sound so rehearsed Had they pulled it off? Doubtful They weren’t actors They were frightened men

Her father also had no clue that Derek had seen him at the Field Office on the day he was questioned If she’d told him, he would have been even ht now He had to stay cal hi their norht of the security guards Sloane had hired

But she orried She’d heard the gravity of Derek’s warning, seen the intensity in his eyes He’d all but told her he had an inside track—one that put him a step ahead of her and clued hi was putting her faer

That could only anized cri a link? If whoever killed Cai Wen was affiliated with a gang Derek’s squad was investigating, then they’d be one step closer to putting her father at the scene of the crime