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Six months later. Monday. Logan Muller's Apartment, Washington, DC.MEETING PLANNER WASN'T PART of Logan's job description, but it should be.This meeting should have happened last week. Logan had pushed for them to act immediately after Zora Clark had come to his office to show him some of the new intel they'd decrypted from the servers their team had hacked after the last operation.Fuck. It felt like these things were happening so quickly. How were they this far behind?Instead, Zora had given everyone a much needed long weekend for Thanksgiving. With any luck, however, they'd have all the details ironed out.Where the hell was everyone?He glanced at his watch, then the gurgling coffee maker. He'd had to upgrade when they started moving meetings to his apartment across the street from their headquarters. It wasn't ideal, but they didn't have any other option.There was someone on the task force that didn't want them to succeed. That much was obvious after the last

Tuesday. Task Force Headquarters. Washington, DC.KELSEY YOUNG DUCKED INTO the large briefing room fifteen minutes ahead of schedule. She wasn't typically the early bird type. Early birds stuck out and as an undercover FBI agent, she was trained to blend in. But today she couldn't help it. She was too excited.She was going undercover again. Finally.Her last gig had a rather climatic ending, which was how she'd wound up part of the task force. At first her being absorbed into the task force had been about controlling who knew what, but she'd pulled her weight, helped out the team, shown herself as trustworthy and made herself useful. Now she was part of the inner circle based on her own merit and the fact that she could be trusted. It was nice working as part of a team, even if it felt foreign and weird.There were only three other people in the room so far, and she didn't know them.Kelsey decided to sit on the back wall, out of the way and where she could comfortably wa

Monday. Unknown.SKILTON PICKED UP THE steaming mug. It was too hot to drink, but just the smell of the fresh brew was enough to make his mind start spinning. They'd had a few road bumps lately, but this? This was coming together.He could lay a lot of the latest blunders at the feet of Senator John Dixon. The man had taken everything Skilton offered, pissed on it, then left. And to think, the man had been nothing when Skilton found him. Just a backwater politician from a good family with no ability to find his way out of a paper bag. John had charisma and a good face. Exactly the sort of thing Skilton wanted in a figurehead. Along the way, however, John had gotten greedy.The senator was about to learn a hard lesson about loyalty and paying your dues.Skilton was going to enjoy this. It had been quite some time since he'd been out in the field himself, but it was time.Their people had to know that they couldn't take the bounty of being part of this organization and just

Kelsey slowly closed the distance between them. Her smile never once faltered, but she did picture planting her fist in the guy's face."Senator Dixon wants to meet you," Robert announced."Oh. Okay." She set the files back down on her desk and picked up a notebook, just in case. "Should I bring anything?""No. Come on."Robert turned and scurried toward the senator's office.Kelsey followed at a slightly slower pace.The man reminded her of a beetle, the way he hurried about with his head hunched all the time.Did he know why this mysterious Skilton guy wanted the senator dead or whatever?Robert glanced back. "Come on. Dixon has a meeting in forty-five minutes, which leaves a little bit of time in case he wants to address something with us. Do you have a pen? Good.""A meeting?" Kelsey frowned and mentally brought up the agenda for the day. "There isn't another meeting until four.""Personal meeting," Robert said without skipping a beat.Kelsey didn't know how D

Thursday. Senate Office Buildings. Washington, DC.IT WASN'T EVEN NINE in the morning and Kelsey wanted to hit the do-over button on her day. It had started by spilling coffee on her pants, then she'd missed the train, dropped her bag on the stairs.She was distracted, and it was Logan's fault.Who answered their door in a towel?She hunched over her desk and wiggled her still frozen toes.Logan could sure warm her up.Nope. No. Stop that right now.Kelsey shook her head.She could admire him, but she couldn't touch. There was no crossing the line with him. Logan had already proven that he was one of those guys that couldn't stomach a woman in danger. Maybe he didn't realize it, but those were the facts. If he could remove a woman from the equation, he would.Her entire career was built on putting herself at risk. Undercover was dangerous work. Until her last gig before joining the Task Force, she'd had a near perfect record. She was good at blending into situation