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He looked confused. “Angel?”
I nodded.
“No.”
“Is she your girlfriend?”
“That isn’t worthy of a response.”
“What did Tommy tell her about me?”
He shook his head. “It isn’t important.”
“It is to me.”
We were in front of my building, and Lynx hadn’t said anything more.
“Tell me,” I repeated.
“Emerson…”
“I need to know.”
“Very well. He told her that one day he’d marry you.”
27
LYNX
“That’s not logical.”
No, it wasn’t. Nor did it make sense that Saint had told me they’d been seeing each other prior to his disappearance. But my concern now had little to do with my missing agent, at least on the surface.
I pressed the button for the lift, mulling over the proposal Decker Ashford had outlined in our earlier phone call, as I had been since I rang off. It didn’t make sense either, and that Emerson’s father was willing to go along with it, was even more worrisome.
I walked Emerson to her door and saw that the keypad I’d requested had been installed.
“Oh! What’s this? I mean, I know what it is, but what do I do? Well, I know what to do, but is there a code? Has someone programmed my handprint in? How did they get my?—”
“I know your code.”
“You do?”
“Yes.”
“Oh.” She tapped her finger on her bottom lip. “Why?”
“Because it’s my birthday, followed by my initials.”
“When’s your birthday?”
“Twenty-three December.”
“And your initials?”
“LCE.”
“Lennox…”
