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"What is it?" I ask, immediately concerned. "Arjun...you're scaring us."

His eyes dart from me to Sloane.

"Are you sure you want to see?" he asks.

Her jaw tightens. "Yes."

Arjun passes her his phone, and I look over his shoulder to see the screen. And there on social media, clear as day, is a video ofher.

Sloane...and the three of us.

Naked and groaning and...

She puts the phone down on its face, tossing it on the bed like it's on fire before scrubbing the images from her eyes. "Shit," she curses.

"How did this happen?" Arjun asks.

But my head is already spinning as I work out the details.

That video was from inside the house...andsomeonewas supposed to turn off the cameras. Milo is the only one who's been isolated from us, who tried to separate me from Sloane, who claims he's been in touch with the Enclave...

He's the unknown quantity in this whole operation.

And now, I'm pretty sure he's been a traitor this whole time.

Chapter twelve

Sloane

Ijumpoutofbed and tug on a t-shirt as I watch Nate storm away from the room, straight toward the secret room off the back of the house where they keep the monitors.

"Nate, wait!" Arjun calls, just ahead of me. "Where are you going?"

"I'm going to fuckingkill him," Nate growls.

"What? Milo?" I ask. "Nate, stop!"

He flings the door open, a practically invisible square in the back wall--and Milo looks up in confusion from where he's got a headset on. Nate steps forward and tears the headset off of Milo and flings it across the room before grabbing Milo by the collar and slamming him against the wall.

Milo raises his hands. "Jesus, Nate, what the fuck?"

"You did this!" he says. "You leaked footage of all four of us to the press--"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Milo demands, struggling against Nate. "I didn't do anything!"

I can hear a woman's voice on the headset, and I pick it up and put it on. Her voice comes through clearly, laced with panic. "Is anyone there?" she says.

"Hi," I say quietly. "It's...yes, who is this?"

"Agent Olivia Cruz," she says. "I work closely with Director Connolly. Where's Agent Thorne?"

"He's...preoccupied," I mutter. "This is Senator Ashford. We were calling for an update on if you got anything from forensics."

"Senator Ashford," Cruz says. "Oh...oh, I'm so sorry for what's happened."

"I just found out myself," I say with a sigh. The guys are all standing still, waiting for me to act, or to give them a signal. "But that's not important; we need to know who's been doing all this."

"Well, I'm pleased to have an update for you," she says. "Given that the footage came from inside an Enclave safehouse, the culprit overplayed their hand. We know for a fact that it has to be someone inside the Enclave...or someone with access to Enclave intelligence."

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