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“I don’t like this,” I suddenly said to Dane, panic seizing me “I knoe’ve talked about it and the FBI wants you sequestered so no one can get to you, but what if they do? This has all turned so sinister that—”

“Ari,” he said as he clasped my hand and stared into my eyes “It’ll be okay You stay here with A Keep calm; decorate the nursery; coh the day Do you hear me?”

I gazed up at hi so fast”

“That’s the way of it when the dam breaks All of the indictments have been made, since Bent is dead It’s time to move forward And if we’re really lucky, this will all be wrapped up quickly It’ll be all right”

I tried to breathe

Daugherty said, “I assure you, Mrs Bax, your husband will be well protected We need hi this case”

I could understand that in my head My heart, however, did not reconcile the fact that Dane would be tucked away so crazy over me as much as I did over hi about whathere More than that, I wanted him safe

I said, “I have Kyle Take Amano”

“No, Ari I’ any chances They both stay with you And you do exactly as they say Even Kyle”

My eyes bulged Hadn’t seen that one co

“He’ll take care of you,” Dane said with confidence, “look after you He won’t let anything happen to you”

“This is serious, Ari,” Kyle chih they’ll have him covered, you know he’s too Die Hard to end up in anyone’s crosshairs, now that he knows he can’t trust his network He can take care of himself”

I couldn’t dispute that It didn’t settle o right this very second”

“Actually, we do,” Strauss said He’d briefly been on his phone, issuing instructions to someone on the other end Now he returned his attention to us and added, “Expect Agents Price and Johnson shortly They’ll coordinate with Aates”

“My dad!” I hastily blurted “I haven’t seen him—”