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“I think youdoknow.”
Her head snapped up to his before she averted her gaze and sighed. “She didn’t share their strategy, but my guess is they’ll want their side of the story out before you make yours public.”
Bastards.
“Whatistheir side of the story?”
“I honestly don’t know, Logan.” Reaching out, she gave his arm a little squeeze. “I’m telling you the truth.”
Call him a fool, but he believed her.
“Hey, Logan! Eva!” Kynan waved at them from where he stood with Mace, Blade, and Scotty. “Can you please join us?” When they approached the group, Kynan addressed everyone. “The Aegis has decided to give us our people back.”
Nope, not suspicious in the least. Logan didn’t bother keeping the skepticism out of his voice. “In exchange for…?”
“Eva.”
“Oh, thank God,” she breathed. For some reason, that struck a nerve. Which was ridiculous. Of course, she would want to go home. But did she have to besorelieved to get away from him?
“Why?” Scotty played with her braid. “That makes no sense.”
“I’m guessing they’re planning to make the situation public,” Kynan said, “and don’t want to be seen holding hostages. They’re going to get ahead of this before we do.”
Which was pretty much what Eva had told Logan.
“That’s what you get for trusting those assholes,” Blade said.
“Hey,” Eva said irritably. “From our side,you’rethe assholes.”
Scotty bristled, but Logan held up his hand in a settle-down gesture. “Chill out. Eva just lost a friend.”
“Yeah?” Scotty shot back. “So did we.”
“Enough,” Ky barked. “There’s a lot of pain going around, okay? We’re all feeling it. Deal with it on your own time. Right now, we have to make a prisoner exchange. I’m going to ask Ares to take Eva to DC and then gate our people back to Brussels. Logan, Maja asked for you to be there too.”
Logan did not like the speculative look Eva gave him. “Why does she want me there?”
“No idea.” Kynan tapped something on his comms.
Mace, dressed in cargo shorts and a busy blue-and-green Hawaiian shirt, looked up from making designs in the sand with his toes. “It’s probably a trap.”
“Maja assured me it isn’t,” Kynan said. “But I don’t believe anything they say. That’s why Ares will be there, and Logan has Cujo for backup.”
“Cool.” Mace grinned. “I hope Cujo gets a nice lunch.”
“Those are my people you’re hoping get eaten,” Eva said, but she sounded way less annoyed by Mace than she had been with Scotty.
“I know.” Mace grinned even wider. Had to hurt his face.
It took a few minutes to collect Ares and coordinate the meeting point with The Aegis, and then Ares opened a gate and he, Logan, and Eva stepped out inside the old Washington Nationals’ stadium.
Several people waited at the other end of the field. The six DART agents came forward, followed by Maja and two others Logan assumed were Elders, and about a dozen Guardians, all armed to the teeth.
Ares closed his gate and then opened another directly to DART’s courtyard, waiting as Logan and Eva moved toward the Elders.
“Are you calling in Cujo?” Eva asked, pausing in the middle of the field.
Logan didn’t take his eyes off the Aegi coming toward them. “Not unless I have to.”
