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She slid to the side and brought the pizza slice up between us. “Good to know there’s somebody you won’t lie to.”
The spell broke, and I backed away. “Giving Alice your number was not a wise choice. You know they’re both going to call you.”
She shrugged and ate her pizza. “You can thank me later. It keeps you from having to talk to them,” she mumbled through her food. “They know how to push your buttons.”
“That they do.” It seemed Serena was in that club as well.
The front motion alert sounded again. “That would be the crew. You better grab a second slice of whatever you want before I let the vultures in. I slapped her ass as I went to the door.
She yelped and stuck her tongue out at me before reaching for the veggie box. “You’re going to pay for that.”
“We’ll see. The way I see it, you have to pay for talking to Alice.”
She nodded. But she only knew half the story.
CHAPTER 15
Duke
I openedthe door for the rest of Hawk Security. As soon as Constance was inside, I passed over Serena’s phone and my observations for another pair of eyes on the messages and emails.
“Thanks.” She poked my chest. “Next time you get the boring hospital-stakeout duty.”
“Next time,” I agreed.
Half an hour later, introductions had been made and pizza passed around, and the group had settled in the family room.
Lucas shooed Serena toward the door. “You can wait upstairs.”
Her eyes went wide with indignation. “No way. Whatever you guys have to say, I want to hear it.”
“No. It may be upsetting, and?—”
“I am not a weak wallflower. You, of all people, should know that.”
“It’s not the way we do things, and if you don’t like it, perhaps?—”
I cut him off. “I want her in. She may have an insight we’d otherwise miss.”
Lucas narrowed his eyes at me but relented.
Serena shifted close enough to me on the small loveseat that our thighs touched, and I willed my cock to ignore her—it only half listened.
The hint of a tremor in her leg told me she was nervous about this. I whispered into her ear. “You can trust them. Don’t let the hard questions scare you.”
The room hushed as Lucas spoke. “Cobra, it’s your op, so bring everybody up to speed.”
I started by explaining the morning attack on Serena, including the demand for a USB drive. I told them I’d tasked Winston with checking out her work-issued car, and I mentioned the call Serena had gotten while we drove to her office, followed by the bomb in her personal vehicle and note on the glass.
“That’s quite an escalation,” Terry noted.
Lucas took charge. “Agreed. Winston, tell us about the work car.”
“The most interesting thing,” Winston said, “was that it had a tracker on it.”
“That’s no surprise for a government vehicle,” Constance pointed out.
“But this…” Winston held up a small box. “…was a second tracker, in addition to the tracker the government installed.” He handed it to Terry.
