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Meanwhile, Nikki set aside her fork and knife and simmered in the seat next to hiot her bearings

Then she asked, “What on earth would as leaks—orinformation?”

“You were the last one in my room with Garcia, before I heeled off for a CT scan”

“And never returned,” she huffed

“My team extracted me The medical professionals who’d cared for me at that private hospital were all part of the network But when I was stable enough to be relocated, I was placed in a ressive state of recovery”

“What the hell does that ave you a bionic brain? Because if that’s the case…it’s an epic fail”

He laughed “You’re a But, no… I recouped quickly and now I’”

She blinked “A what?”

“A data device This one happens to contain highly confidential and strategic intelligence I need it back, Ms Kane”

She gaped

He continued “Your original rendezvous point with your contact was the Maldives, correct?”

Her jaw snapped shut She was silent for a few seconds Then deh she were expecting to find ca punked

The flight attendant made her rounds to collect empty meal trays and Nikki instantly handed hers over, despite not having touched any of the food

When they were alone again, she said, “Do you knoho I am? I’ and after natural and environmental disasters That’s why I was in the hospital in Mexico City—in your roo post-trau the kids whose parents were under the care of the hospital, or ere orphaned I was reading to patients in medically induced comas,” she more pointedly said as she speared hi more than that,” she asserted

He would beg to differ She was fiery and passionate and so dae in a line of questioning, because his thoughts were running in all different directions that had absolutely nothing to do with his current investigation