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Bones waved her off. “So sorry to disturb, mate, but this is an emergency. I’m with Denise’s mate, Cristine. Someone from her work tried to murder her tonight.”
“What?” Denise shrieked through the line. Randy must have had the call on speaker.
Cat tried to snatch Bones’s mobile away. He darted out of her reach, speaking over Denise’s demands to know what happened.
“Can’t go into details now, but she’s all right. Still, the traitor needs to be found, and only a vampire can force a confession out of the unwilling, but her boss won’t be keen on me helping. That’s why we’re not asking him. Cristine has several back-door passwords to her compound’s security system. Think you can override it with one of those, Randy?”
“You want me to hack the FBI?” Randy sounded partly appalled and partly intrigued.
“She doesn’treallywork for the FBI, mate. That’s cover for her real job of hunting the undead.”
“Oh,” Randy said. “That makes more sense. Okay, well, with even a low-level password, I can hack into anything.”
“It’s not necessary!” Cat shouted.
“Itisnecessary,” Bones countered. “Can you be ready in three hours, Randy?”
“I can do it in five minutes,” Randy said.
“Three hours will suffice, and thank you,” Bones replied. “Your honeymoon is now on me, so treat yourself to the best champagne and the most luxurious amenities.”
Bones hung up. Cat’s face was no longer red with anger. Instead, it was as pale as Ellis’s after he’d bled out.
“You intend to let my team capture you. That’s why you were asking me about the capsule.”
“Yes,” he said simply.
“You think they won’t know it’s a trap?” she fired back.
“Not if they think they’re in control. In fact, they’ll believe they’re doing this behind your back.”
“How?” she all but shouted at him.
Bones told her. If possible, she turned even paler.
“You’ve. Lost. Your. Mind,” she bit out.
Bones only smiled. “On the contrary, I’ve never been thinking clearer.”
25
Cat used all of the three hours Bones had allotted for setup to argue with him. She even offered to quit her job. The latterwastempting, but it wouldn’t solve the problem. The traitor had to be found and dealt with. Nothing less would do.
“This is the worst idea you’ve ever had,” Cat said for the dozenth time.
“It’s also the only way I can get within sniffing distance of whoever’s trying to take you out at your compound.”
“What’s to smell? ‘Traitor’ doesn’t have an odor!”
“Fear does,” Bones said bluntly. “And the traitor will stink like it once they realize why I’m there. Or they’ll run, or smell like the vampire or ghoul they’re associated with, or something else that will give them away. In any event, we’ll know who it is. Now, for the last time, make the call, Kitten.”
Finally, she accepted his mobile. “Don,” she said after dialing. “It’s Cat.”
She hadn’t put it on speaker, but Bones could hear the other man’s voice clearly. “Cat, are you hurt?”
“No, but someone’s trying to change that,” she said with a bleak laugh. “I’m coming in. I’ll be there within the hour. Don’t let anyone, and I mean anyone, leave. Call in whoever’s out, too. We have a fox in our henhouse.”
“Of course, Cat, come in, but no one here could possibly-”
