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“No. Again, everyone acted as you would expect they would. But I decided to search their rooms. I found a satphone other than the one phone Maddie was assigned.”
“Who had it?”
“Hanna Weber. She couldn’t open it. Said she didn’t have the password, and I believe her.”
“So, someone planted it in her room after the coax was fixed?” Booker said.
“That’s my guess.”
“So, maybe you can cross one person off your list?” Stone said.
“I can cross off two. I know Maddie didn’t have time or opportunity to plant that phone.”
“Have you considered there might be more than one person involved?”
Gunn rubbed a gloved hand over his face. “I have. But if there’s more than one, I can’t knock anyone off the list.”
“When I talked to Polardyne,” Stone said, “they were calling a meeting to decide whether to close down the site. Clive said it would be hard given how far into October we are. If it happens, it’s going to be a few days anyway before the weather’s clear enough to get a helicopter out there.”
“So, in the meantime, all I can do is make sure no one’s left alone. I have cameras up so I can keep an eye on the rooms I’m not inside.”
“Swede will continue to monitor phones and email transmissions,” Stone said. “Something’s got to shake loose. Whoever it is must be getting nervous. You watch your back.”
After the call ended, Gunn headed back inside the building.
Maddie was waiting in the kitchen with a hot cup of cocoa ready. “Thought you might need something to warm you up.”
He reached eagerly for the cup and wrapped both hands around it, welcoming the heat entering his tingling fingers. “Thank you.”
“Any news on their end?”
He thought about mentioning the fact Perry and Em were in talks with Polardyne for a new contract, but then he’d have to mention that he knew she’d been reaching out to her former employer, too. He wasn’t ready to have that conversation. Hell, he didn’t like even thinking about what would happen if Polardyne shut down the site. Maddie would be lost to him forever, and the thought made him feel a little ill.
“Thought you were going to get some rest,” he said.
“In your room?” Her mouth curved.
“Miss me?” he asked, arching an eyebrow.
“Guess you’ll find out,” she said, coming closer and lightly hugging his waist.
When she leaned into him, so close she couldn’t miss her effect on him, he said, “Careful there.”
Her hand smoothed over her cock. “Think I’m scared?”
He set his cup on the edge of the counter and reached around her to clutch both globes of her nicely rounded ass. Then he kissed her, loving how her chest rubbed against him and her body melted into him. “Tonight, I want the light left on.”
Her eyes widened, but then her mouth formed a small pleased smile. “You mean I’ll get to see what I’ve been touching?”
His gaze locked with hers. “I’m not pretty, Maddie.”
She reached up and touched his scarred cheek. “I’ve felt them. I already know what’s there—and I’m not perfect either.”
“You are to me.”
CHAPTER13
They madelove with the pale light from the lamp on the bedside table.
