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He noddedslowly.
They both knew that theirs was a dangerousbusiness.
She realized with a start that that’s how she’d come to see it — astheirs.
Somewhere along the way, she’d started to see herself as a partner in the enterprise. Maybe it had something to do with Damian and the way he conducted himself, with the honor he always displayed. Or maybe it had to do with the Syndicate men and their wives and their surprisingintegrity.
She didn’t know, but she no longer felt the need to hold herself apart from the business. To pretend she wasn’t part ofit.
She loved Damian. They were going to have achild.
She couldn’t stand by him if she was ashamed of the way they made theirmoney.
“I would have brought Cole if I’d known you were coming,” Damiansaid.
She shook her head. Damian was already working the nextproblem.
“Leave me a gun,” she said. “I’ll befine.”
He scowled. “I’ll see if Sarut willstay.”
Sarut was Locke’s driver. Aria didn’t know him, but Locke had trusted him to pick them up at the airport, to drive them to the house nestled in thehills.
It was good enough forher.
“If it will make you feel better,” shesaid.
“Itwill.”
She stood on her toes to kiss him. “What’snext?”
“Why don’t you rest for a bit? I’m going to call Cole, see if he came up with any details on Gatti’s movements while we were in the air. Then we’llsee.”
She nodded and lay her head on his chest, trying not to hear a bad omen in hiswords.
Then we’llsee.
