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"Are you using her to get revenge against Grant? You have to tell s"

"Grant is a sonofabitch who’s had it in for me and my family for decades"

"Yeah, I know He was all butthurt because your uncle got off years ago when he was Assistant DA He's still gunning for you"

"Soo"

"So, are you using the stepdaughter to get back at Grant? Throw her in his face or so?"

"No," I said "It's not like that We go a long way back" Then, I tried to change the subject from Celia "So did you find that information I asked you about?"

He sucked his teeth thoughtfully for a mo at Spencer Grant as part of an investigation into a sex ring operating in the DC area Sees when he first worked as Commonwealth's Attorney in Alexandria There were ru stuck A task force has a few leads and they'reforith the case"

"What?" I said and turned to hih me "He's a pedophile?"

"Apparently, he likes theency that provides vulnerable young things from Eastern Europe, the old Soviet Union, who don't knohat to expect when they get to the US These creeps lavish these girls with booze andagencies"

I frowned and wondered if he'd ever done anything to Celia Then I shook n a chastity contract

Maybe that was to protect him more than her…

"That fucking bastard," I said, anger coiling inside irls?"

"Yeah," he replied "He's just slih to have slipped out of reach"

"What a fucking hypocrite He's condemned my family all this ti them for his own perversions? He's all kinds of evil," I said, re how he'd hurt Celia and Graham when they were kids "I'd like to take hi hiei Romanov ice cream sundae"

"One mission at a time," Millar said "We need you on the Romanovs That's your world"