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“No” He squeezed her hand and went back to watching her hips sway in front of him when she turned around “Get Friday off the line,” he barked into his mic
“No—” Friday started to complain, but then there was silence
“She’s gone,” Striker said “This is just between us What’s going on?”
“This situation is out of control I thought I heard…” He trailed off, unable to talk about the voice that had sounded in his head at the sight of her Terrified ofit into words Because he had to have been mistaken about it, for both their sakes
“Look,” he huffed instead “Keiko’s nothing like we thought she’d be” Nothing like he’d thought she’d be He’d expected a hardheaded businesswoman, someone in CommTECH’s schemes up to her neck or someone so sheltered and naive that she was clueless to as going on around her Instead, she was funny, caring, and sexy as hell, and he couldn’t think straight froht this plan sucked Now that I’ve met her, I really think it sucks There has to be another way to get into that press conference One that doesn’t involve blackmail”
“If there was another e’d take it” Although Striker sounded sympathetic, he was immovable
Mace’s sto her in But I want it on the record that this doesn’t sit right with me”
“Duly noted,” Striker said “You kno iht piss you off, but you don’t want millions of people to die any more than she does”
As ht He ran a hand through his hair “You’d better be waiting e get there” Because he had no idea how long his willpoould hold out against Keiko if they were alone in his hotel room
“We will”
“Then we’ll see you in a few” With that, Mace subtly removed his earpiece and thrust it into his pocket
The path to the elevators cleared in front of theed Keiko into the corner Leaning back against the wall, Mace pulled her to hi his hand on her stomach to hold her in place
She looked up at hi in bed”
A guy as about to step inside the elevator heard her words and grinned at Mace “I’ll take the next one,” he said
Mace gave him a droll s to ad crap in bed, but I haven’t had any complaints”