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“You thought it.”
“I don’t want her to be guilty any more than you do, but right now she appears guilty.”
“She wasn’t present for all the information leaks. We hid Dekar in Ohio before she became our liaison. Only you, Ri’Nom, and I knew his location, and we never spoke in front of her or entered information about Dekar in the humans’ database. No human has access to our systems. And when the Brotherhood found Gabriella, Maggie nearly died. I doubt they’d risk her if she was their source.”
“She’s the prime suspect for leaking Kaci’s location, Zirkov. And there are three murdered og’dals in the morgue. Maggie’s connected to at least one of them.”
“I won’t accept she’s behind all of this.”
“But some of it?”
Zirkov thought about it. Her behavior had been off, lately. “Are you sure you told no one else about the knife Ri’Nom was returning to Dal?”
“Only Maggie. I explained he’d be staying on Dal because his father gave him a dagger, a family heirloom to return home. I didn’t know the significance of the knife at the time.”
“I doubt Maggie knew either. She has less experience, fewer connections with other worlds than we do, and she’s never been to Karthika or Dal.”
Konnitch flicked Zirkov’s horn. “Stop questioning yourself. Follow your instincts and do something, anything. Arrest her even.”
“I won’t arrest her.”
“Then sleep with her. Get your cocks and your head taken care of so you can focus on our mission.”
Zirkov growled. “You will not talk about her in that manner.”
“She’s tougher than you give her credit. But you’re hindering this investigation by hiding in this office, avoiding her.”
“I’m not avoiding her. She’s avoiding me.”
“You’re both stubborn, but you’re in charge here, Commander. Don’t let whatever’s going on between you two interfere with this investigation.”
“Enough. Tell me about any connections the Mofa’Ti have to Earth.”
“They don’t have any. They are wholly concerned with Dal’s internal politics. And Ri’Nom has no other leads on any associates of Bu’Tay, the og’dal Maggie identified.”
“I think you’re right. We need to find the remaining og’dals before they disappear. They don’t need more than five males to control a shipload of unarmed females.”
“If taking more females is their objective.”
“Those slavers won’t pass up an opportunity to replace inventory now that Earth’s defense shield is down for repairs. The real question is how they knew when it would be down.” Zirkov glared at Konnitch. “Don’t say it.”
“How many times has Maggie been in our office, with our datapads, alone? Plenty of opportunities to log into our systems.”
“She’d never do anything to hurt her people. It’s someone else.”
“Only people working on the shield and GI7 have access to the codes to lower and raise the entry portal. I’m betting Earth Intelligence doesn’t even know.”
“Which means Maggie wouldn’t know.”
Konnitch frowned. “She sees everything we see.”
“Seeing isn’t the same as leaking information.”
“You’re talking like a heartmate, not a commander.”
“She’s not my sholani. I’ve told you this several times already. What I did—”
“Drekk that and start paying attention to the facts. Both about her activities and what you feel for her.”
