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Daiven the research he’d conducted on Nikki Naturally, fro for a terrorist cell He didn’t want to believe it now And he was almost convinced it was true—he was almost certain she was innocent

What he couldn’t piece together in his mind, however—what he couldn’t rationalize or resolve—was how the infor to intercept when he’d started this mission had ended up on her laptop

If Nikki wasn’t working with terrorists, if she wasn’t an accoeted her and used her cole the information out of Mexico City and into the States?

She could have used Kate or Jude for that, if Garcia’s priet the data into someone’s hands in New York City in a timely fashion It would have reached the intended destination quicker, since Kate and Jude had just been in the city, according to Damen’s sources

In fact, any other mule, particularly within the terrorist network, could have been used to carry the information to its end point

More interestingly, Damen ruminated over how Nikki hadn’t actually planned this trip to New York It’d been spontaneously booked At first, she’d been researching the Maldives

Daated this motive further—he would discover that, indeed, the Maldives here herthe holidays

He had to also concede that her reason for an ihly valid one Her job was to provide counseling to survivors, fa tianization around these disaster-relief efforts and had “attached” herself to a specific search and rescue tea with that particular outfit while taking as supposed to have been a hiatus in Mexico City, but further research on Damen’s part had confirroup He led a team that had already been dispatched to Switzerland, i a horrific train wreck

Damen couldn’t deny Nikki’s story checked out

Granted, that didn’tfor her organization, or been offered soree to serve as a courier of the intel

But, da her coht beside her…? Why would she ever willingly consent to allowing her laptop to be the vehicle that carried this sensitive information that others would potentially hunt down and take from her?

She wouldn’t

That photo of Nikki and her husband on the screensaver had said it all, in Damen’s opinion

There’d been a spark in Nikki’s eyes In Conner’s as well She’d been blissfully happy And Damen believed her when she’d said all of the photos, letters and ether were contained on the hard drive

She ht