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taken many hits in his life, and he had given more than his share, but none of them had hurt nearly as much as those that he was taking and giving now.
     
    Alec was stronger and had more technique, but Lind was quicker. They were on par, and soon they had exhausted each other. Lind pinned Alec to the floor and stared down at his best friend’s angry features.
     
    “Alec,” he said again, firmly. “ Listen . I did not betray you.”
     
    “Where is she?” Alec growled, half-lifting his head off the floor and fighting weakly against Lind’s restraining hold.
     
    Lind tightened his grip around the man’s wrists and gave him a shake to make himself better heard. “I don’t know,” he repeated. “But she doesn’t know anything. She wasn’t involved.”
     
    “If she wasn’t involved, why are you hiding her?”
     
    “ Because she wasn’t involved,” Lind said. “I knew you and Merchant would suspect her. She was in danger. She’s been helping me trying to figure it out. She gave me insight on everyone who works or has ever worked at the nightclub.”
     
    Alec watched him skeptically. “Why didn’t you tell me?”
     
    “Because you would have killed her first and asked questions later.”
     
    Alec stared at him for the longest of times. Finally, he seemed to deflate and went limp in Lind’s grasp. “Fine. I believe you,” he said, and Lind could see that he was sincere. “You can get off of me now.”
     
    “You won’t do anything stupid?”
     
    “Like what? Strike a woman who’s not here?”
     
    Lind watched him closely. Satisfied, he nodded and let go, rolling off of his friend and helping him to his feet. As if by silent, mutual accord, they walked to the kitchen. Black coffee helped them both to think, and Lind put on a fresh pot. Soon, they were sitting at the table, nursing two steaming mugs, black eyes, and split lips. Lind hated the inactivity, but he knew they had to talk before any action could be taken.
     
    “You should have told me,” Alec said after minutes of silence had ticked by.
     
    “I would have, eventually,” Lind said. “You weren’t ready.”
     
    Alec glared. “What the fuck are you talking about?”
     
    Lind pointedly lifted the bag of frozen peas off of his right cheekbone. “Seriously?”
     
    “I would’ve listened to her case.”
     
    “No, you wouldn’t have,” Lind said. It wasn’t an accusation. It was just facts.
     
    Alec grunted begrudgingly. “And now you’ve lost her,” he said after a moment, the ghost of a grin coming to stretch his mouth. “Some guard you are.”
     
    Lind’s features darkened. “I think something must have happened,” he said. “She wouldn’t leave without her things. Certainly not without her purse and wallet.” He nodded to the kitchen counter. He paused and looked curiously at his friend. “How did you find out anyway?”
     
    “Jacob told me,” Alec said. “He came to me this morning.”
     
    Alarm came to squeeze Lind’s stomach. “Jacob told you?”
     
    Alec nodded. “He said he came by last night and found you here with her.”
     
    “That son of a bitch!” Lind hissed. “He knew all along, you know?”
     
    Alec frowned. “What are you talking about?”
     
    Lind told him everything. He told him about finding Eve with his bike that night, and about his and Jacob’s plan to hide her both from the MC and the nightclub crew and have her help them out unravel the mystery of the ambush at the Cobra.
     
    “I don’t understand,” Alec said. “Why would Jacob come to me today?”
     
    Lind’s brain was working a mile a minute. “I think he must have been involved in the ambush.”
     
    Alec’s eyes widened. “ Jacob ?” he said. “That’s impossible.”
     
    “It’s the only explanation that makes sense,” Lind said, horrified to even think along those lines and even more so to know in his bones that he was right.
     
    Jacob had told Alec that he had stopped by the apartment in