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his character, there was nothing that would convince her he had been selling secrets.
    “So, he’s probably going to be horrible with you two. Just know where he is coming from.”
    Alicia frowned. “What do you mean?”
    Dee sighed. “He’ll do anything to keep you safe. And it means he is going to be a pain in the ass. I just wanted you to understand why.”
    She crossed her arms beneath her breasts. “I can take care of myself and Bridget.”
    Dee chuckled. “Don’t be getting your panties in a bunch. I know that, and to an extent he knows that. But he has a history, and just keep that in mind. I don’t want you to kick his ass and make him cry like a girl.”
    Alicia smiled. “You think I can?”
    “I’m pretty sure you can. What do you train with?”
    “Some boxing.”
    “Me too! Well, until I got pregnant.”
    “You’re having two so close together.”
    “I want to have a ton of them, but Micah wasn’t happy at first. He didn’t do so well during the last pregnancy. He declared we wouldn’t have any more children after the incident in the delivery room.”
    “What incident?”
    “He almost passed out. As it was, he got woozy and his stomach didn’t handle the miracle of birth that well.”
    She thought back to the stoic Native American and joined in the laughter.
    “Now that I might have paid to see.”
    * * * *
    Micah and Devon pulled into the Ali’s driveway and found that nothing had been disturbed. There was a bit of fog hanging around the bushes that lined the walk.
    “It’s fucking eerie, man,” Micah said.
    Devon nodded. There was something oddly quiet that coated the area with a thick layer of menace. It left a knot in his stomach. There was something very wrong about the house.
    They both silently slipped out of the car. He watched his brother-in-law scan the area. Devon knew he was good at things like that. He’d been trained by the CIA, even if it was just preliminary training. Years of avoiding his father and brother had made him cautious. But Micah, he’d made a living at it. When he had gotten out of the business, he’d been more well-known than Dog the Bounty Hunter. Add in his rough upbringing, Micah was probably one of the most perceptive people he knew.
    Micah nodded, indicating that he didn’t sense anything and Devon could go in. As they walked, Micah continued looking around them. Devon approached the front door and found it locked. He used the key Ali had given him, and then walked in carefully.
    It looked exactly the same. No windows were broken, nothing was damaged. In fact, he would never have guessed someone had been there that night. They walked around carefully, checking things out. It was the oddest kind of crime scene. He knew the people who had shown up last night had been sent to at least retrieve Bridget. When Micah joined him in the kitchen, he looked at Devon.
    “It’s like last night didn’t happen,” Devon said.
    “Makes me think someone didn’t want anyone to notice what was going on. And, maybe they think she’s on her own. If so, that’s good. They’ll assume that she’s on her own.”
    “That makes sense with the report that Ali got this morning. The cops went by last night, nothing looked out of place.”
    “Let’s check out the bedrooms.”
    They came to Bridget’s first. Again, nothing was disturbed. The covers were pulled up over the pillow, but other than that, it looked natural. They made their way down to the master bedroom.
    They slipped in and it looked the same. Ali had been dressed, but her bed was in the same order. The quilt had been pulled up over the pillows. Micah looked in the bathroom and came out shaking his head.
    Devon pulled the bed linens and found the pillow had a bullet hole in it.
    “Fucking hell,” Micah muttered.
    Anger pumped through Devon as he spun around and strode down the hallway to Bridget’s room again. He grabbed the sheets and yanked them down. The pillow had one small bullet hole in it. Micah