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failsafe.” Niko pounded a fist on his knee. “And we have to find it.”
    “Okay,” Maggie said, looking around the room. “Let’s put all the cards on the table, then. The alphas want us to close down the mission. Vadik, this may not make much sense to you, but none of us have ever disobeyed a directive from our alphas before.”
    He smirked, memories of boot camp assaulting him. “Trust me, I get that.”
    “He was in the Russian army,” Luther whispered to Maggie. “Until he went to the dark side.”
    “So I get chain of command.”
    “This is still a big damn deal.” Dani stood from her chair across the room and shifted her weight from foot to foot. “We’re taking a risk, especially because the alphas gave us a direct order this time.”
    “We talked them out of it last time.” Niko reached for Dani’s hip and his hand settled her. She glanced down at him with a smile on her full lips.
    “This time, there’s no talking them out of it.” Maggie leaned forward. “I can do some research on Sasha, and Luther, you can look at the schematics of the island we found, thanks to your friend. See if we can find the location of the main power station. That’s the only way we can shut it off.”
    “It’s a radio frequency, we think,” Luther said, with a glance at Vadik. “Dr. Lee thinks that’s the only way it could be triggered by someone’s distance from it.”
    “Yeah, when we had Faye with us, it was like she was fine and fine and fine, and then she was just dead, with one step too far.” Maggie’s eyes glazed and Luther reached for her. She smiled at his touch. “We think that was what happened with Sasha, too. That there was something in Petrov’s body, or some piece of jewelry or phone or something that put out a frequency, and she’d be fine when she was around it.”
    Vadik felt Andrea tense on the bed beside him and cast her a sidelong glance. She was crossed and closed and had made herself small. He wanted to touch her, to relax her, the way the other couples seemed to be able to do.
    Only we’re not a couple .
    No, they weren’t. And they needed to stay that way.
    He sat on his hand. “But wouldn’t she have known about it?”
    Maggie shook her head. “We don’t think so. Faye didn’t seem to know, or she wouldn’t have agreed to come with us. And the rest of them never would’ve allowed her to potentially be taken off the island, if they all knew.”
    “So he has basically a bomb planted in them, and they could die at any minute, but they don’t know it?” Vadik grunted and leaned back on his hands. They sank into the soft bed. “What a psychopath.”
    “We need to get those girls—” Maggie began, but a loud ringing sound interrupted her.
    Everyone looked around the room, and Andrea finally jumped to her feet. She dug in her jeans pocket and pulled out a phone.
    Her brows folded together. “It’s Aaron.”
    “Your brother?” Niko asked.
    She nodded and pressed the phone into her jacket. “I have to take it.” She walked across the room with long, graceful steps.
    Maggie caught her arm as she walked by. “Don’t tell him, Andi.”
    “I won’t.” She swiped at the phone and stepped through the door.
    Vadik felt the same pull to follow her that he had when they’d walked by her hotel room on their way to his.
    He didn’t like the flood of emotions that seemed to wash over him whenever Andrea was around, and he certainly couldn’t afford not to be master of his own thoughts any more.

    “ A aron .”
    “Andrea. I spoke with the Toronto alpha. The body has been taken care of. No one will find it. When will you be home? Dr. Lee wants to call in the Black Rangers, and I have to say I agree with him.”
    Stubborn man. “Aaron, they don’t have all the information. If they go in, those people he’s got captive will die. There are children on that island. How could you go around us like this? We’re the ones that have been living this nightmare. We deserve to