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it. “I’ve never seen it.”
    Her eyebrows knit together, creasing her forehead. “You haven’t seen Adrian’s house?”
    “Never.”
    “Never?”
    “I hire the guys for the penthouse and the boathouse, I ferry supplies, and I keep an eye on the boat.”
    Maggie gave a short, disbelieving shake of her head and sighed. “Well, let’s start with employee records, then. Maybe if I know a little bit more about them, I can find a pressure point with someone.”
    “Records?” Luther laughed, trying to imagine his stern-faced boss handing over a W-2 along with the illegal ammunition. “We don’t have employee records. We all get paid in cash and each crew hires their own people.”
    She leaned forward, like she might rise, but froze in thought. “But I thought you were the head of security.”
    “Yeah, according to Julianna, I am.” He picked at a loose webbing on the underside of the main control panel. Thinking too much. This was dangerous. “Adrian sends her to me because he doesn’t want her having access to his staff. I’m more like the concierge than the head of anything.”
    Her frozen face didn’t reflect any of the frustration that was building inside him. After all that it took to admit he wanted to bring down Adrian Rossi, he didn’t have anything to offer her.
    Luther flexed his hands and stood. “I hire the guys in the penthouse. I hire the guys in the boathouse. I inventory and deliver all the supplies, I control the boat—the only access to the island, by Adrian’s design, I guess—and I pay the guys I hire. That’s it.” He walked across the cabin and leaned against the edge of the curved window. “When his rich buddies show up, I drive them around and give them boat rides and take them to the island. I carry their wives’ bags… Shit. I’m sorry, Mag.”
    She slid her arms around his waist and he jumped at the contact. With her head pressed against his back, she sighed. “There’s no reason to be sorry.”
    Luther held her hand and leaned against her. “I just…I thought I could help. I thought you knew what you were looking for.”
    “We’ve spent the last three weeks diagramming every inch of that coastline, looking for a way onto the island. Taking fishing boats out to the sight line. He’s just watching every inch.”
    “That’s true.” Luther remembered the inlet, the beach. “There’s a camera every hundred yards or so, and the ones on the cliffs have floodlights.”
    “We haven’t been able to figure out why, other than he—”
    “He doesn’t want anyone getting on that island,” he finished with a sigh.
    “Or off.”
    The words hung in the silence like an alpine echo. Off the island . Luther had never considered that. He always assumed Adrian was a private—if ruthless—bastard who needed to control access to his home. But when Maggie’s words resonated, he couldn’t stop the realizations.
    He had been part of the problem.
    He brought people onto the island.
    He kept the guards on watch.
    He protected Adrian Rossi’s evil enterprise.
    But he’d known all this, somewhere deep down inside, and because he was Luther Frost , he’d given himself a pass. But he wasn’t getting that pass any longer. He wasn’t going to let his ignorance get innocent people killed or tortured or raped, or whatever Rossi was doing on that island.
    “We need to get more information before we can make any plans.” Maggie released him and walked back to the console. Her shoes made a rubber squeaking sound on the wood and Luther snapped out of his reverie.
    “The only real way in would be to come on this boat.” He set his jaw. “It’s the only way you won’t be seen.”
    She glanced over her shoulder and a flash of concern sparked across her features. “You can’t do that. Rossi has…” A hand traveled to her neck. “He’s seen me. If he’s watching the cameras, he’ll know I’m there.”
    “There’s one spot they don’t have a camera.”
    Her head cocked to