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“I see.”
Tommy needed this and he didn’t know how to make her see that. He needed to prove he wasn’t some pussy who couldn’t hold his own. He needed to spread his wings and do the job.
Not bake cookies and play house husband.
“Please help me. I think we need time apart. I think we need space. If that doesn’t work, and we both need each other, we can work something out.”
Oh, she was pretty sure it was NOT working out.
Call it a hunch.
“Like I said, I’ll see what I can do. Are you absolutely sure?” she asked.
He nodded.
“I’ve never been surer.”
Well, then, she’d do what she could. Besides, having an inside cop…that would be nice. Gene had been their source until Preston died, and he’d gone rogue for them.
Pulling out her phone, she called Axelle.
She answered on the first ring.
“Red Queen, are you sitting on that phone?” she asked, laughing. “It’s Monday. Don’t you have meetings out the wazoo? My meetings?”
She snorted.
“Yeah, but I’m in my office pumping and signing your papers for you. Someone owes me a huge-ass favor.”
Bless her.
If she handled her paperwork, she’d freaking pump for her. Well, okay, maybe not that, but pretty much everything else.
“I also took care of the police bullshit down there. You’re going to be given everything, and you know the dance. Yada, yada, yada. They called me in a panic, asking what the hell you were doing there.”
She stood up and pointed at Tommy to sit his ass there and wait like a good lunatic.
“I have to talk classified shit. Give me a moment,” she said, moving away from him.
When she was alone, in a corner, she lowered her voice.
“Ax, Artemis is up to her eyeballs in this. We put two and two together and got foul. She’s trying really hard to get me here. I’m not one hundred percent that she won’t take a shot at me too.”
Oh, Jesus.
“What?”
“This feels like a big fuck you to me or maybe Remmy. She’s loco. Get this. This Russian is tied to Jagger, Maura, and Mamba. That won’t be a coincidence. I need a backup plan. I feel like she’s going to throw something at us. The men that were kidnapped were all tied to the Russians. This feels like revenge.”
She didn’t want her husband or sister-in-law in trouble.
“Where’s Duke?”
“He’s at the hotel. I have him doing more research to see if we can find anything Artemis missed hiding. We’re waiting on intel from The Underground to keep pushing through.”
She was relieved that he was safe.
“What do you need?”
