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“If I’d cleared it all, he wouldn’t have had the backing to come back here”

“Eve, he’d have found a way” He waited until she looked at him “You know that”

“Yeah” She let out a long breath “Yeah, I know that This tellsfunds, funneling into cover accounts I need to freeze theue with me, not after what happened to one of their own”

“You’ll piss him off”

“That’s the plan I need the names, numbers, locations of all the accounts you can connect to hiuess I owe you”

“Use your present, and we’ll call it even”

“My present? Oh, yeah Where and/or when do I want to go for a day Let et this wrapped, I’ll use it for New Year’s Eve”

“There’s a deal”

A horrible thought snuck into her busyfor New Year’s, do we? No party or anything”

“No I didn’t want anything but you”

She looked back at hi her eyes even as the s stuff like that?”

“No” He rose, framed her face and kissed her, hard and deep “I have all that stuff on disc”

“You’re a slick guy, Roarke” She skih her hair and siiving herself a shake, she stepped back “I have to work”

“Wait” He grabbed her hand before she could turn away “What was that?”

“I don’t know It just couess, come over me sometimes I don’t have time for it now”