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"Trent’s girlfriend?"

"My brother"

"Your brother Trent And Travis And you’re Thoer and Toadstool?"

Maddox wasn’t amused "Taylor and Tyler They’re twins They’re between Trent and me"

"Why the Ts?" I had to ask, but I was beyond annoyed with the entire conversation

He sighed "It’s a Midwestern thing I don’t know Lindy, I need you to go towithto prison"

"It shouldn’t be that hard for you to convince hireat alternative to prison"

"He’ll be undercover He will have to keep it from his wife"

"So?"

"He really, really loves his wife"

"So do our other undercover agents," I snapped, not feeling the slightest bit of sympathy

"Travis has a past His relationship with Abby has always been volatile, and Travis sees honesty as his co nificant others they can’t discuss their job, and that’s the end of it Why can’t he just do that?"

"He can’t tell her anything He’ll be undercover on an investigation that could implicate Abby’s father That could certainly becoly risk anything that could ive hiht alibi and stick with it"

Maddox shook his head "No part of this is simple, Liis We’ll have to be exceptionally creative to keep Abby fro "She’s sharp as a goddamn tack, that one"

I narrowed my eyes at him, wary of the fact that he’d used o Do you?"

"It’s not a bad idea"

"Our being friends is a bad idea, but us posing as a couple for an entire weekend isn’t?"

"Travis is…hard to explain"

"You think he’ll get violent?"

"I knoill"

"I’ you don’t want me to shoot him if he does"

Maddox shot me a look