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“The more people who find out where I am, the harder it is for me to disappear and do what I have to.”
    “If disappearing’s what you want,” Nikko told him, “I can make that happen.”
    “Yeah?” Dan cocked a skeptical eyebrow. “You a magician or something?”
    “Better. I have a big ranch in a remote area of Texas and the transportation to get you there. If you have a base of operations where no one can get at you, you can do whatever you have to.”
    “Texas?” Dan looked at Maddie, who’d dropped into the chair next to him. “Is she for real?”
    Maddie nodded. “Her private security agency does very, very well. And she also has experience and connections in this area that we don’t have.”
    “ I do,” he argued.
    “Apparently not if you’re on the run. So let her help us, please?”
    Maddie waited while Dan drummed his fingers on the table the way he did when he was mulling things over in his mind.
    “All right, I’ll consider it,” he said at last. “First, tell me how we get out of this house without being seen.”
    “I will but I have a question,” Nikki put in. “Dan, you’re already MIA, but Maddie, won’t people miss you if suddenly you aren’t around?”
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    Maddie shook her head. “Actually, this is the best time for me to be gone. It’s the last week in July. Congress declared an early recess and everyone in our offices is either getting ready to leave town or they’ve already gone.”
    “Okay, then.” Nikki pushed back from the table. “Then here’s what we’ll do.”
    * * * * *
    Dan and Maddie stood in the huge bedroom staring at each other.
    “I can’t believe she actually did it,” he said at last. “Got us here right under everyone’s noses. And what a perfect place for a hideout.”
    “I told you she could help.”
    His smile was rueful. “Remind me never to get on that woman’s bad side. I’d hate to have her after me.”
    Maddie chuckled, but it was more a sound of relief than humor.
    “Her headquarters is in San Antonio which is why the ranch is in Texas, but she has contacts everyplace in the country. In the world.”
    Dan looked at her, curiosity flashing in his eyes. “Exactly what kind of ‘private security’ work does she do?”
    “I think you’ll have to ask her. But it’s pretty high powered, I know that. And she gets paid very, very well for it.”
    “Well.” Dan brushed a soft kiss across her lips. “She certainly gets my vote.”
    Getting out of her townhouse had been complicated but effective. Nicole had called a local contact who had shown up in a pizza delivery truck. The delivery person who left was Dan, while the contact hid in the trunk of Maddie’s car. She and Nicole left together, driving to the hotel where Nikki was staying. They left her car with the valet and made a show of going into the hotel. From there they went to the hotel garage where another of Nikki’s contacts picked them up and drove them to a private airport in suburban Maryland.
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    The Nemesis jet ferried them to an airport outside of San Antonio. Then it was a quick helicopter ride to the ranch truly in the middle of nowhere.
    “Is this really a working ranch?” Dan wanted to know.
    Maddie nodded. “It makes a good cover. She’s got an excellent foreman and the place makes money. She also has a training facility here with a gun range hidden in a wooded section of the property.”
    Dan whistled. “She’s thought of everything. She must be making a bundle.”
    Maddie grinned. “Ya think?”
    He reached for her and pulled her toward him, his hands cupping her face. “Right now I don’t want to think. Right now I want to remember that we’re alive and at least temporarily out of harm’s way.”
    When his mouth came down on hers, Maddie’s senses were flooded with the most incredible desire. Just the hungry touch of his lips and fresh cream filled her cunt and her nipples hardened. She opened her