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After I’d done what they’d sent me out here to do, if I wanted

I had to go back

CHAPTER 56

Two hours and twenty-two one to talk to the vice president Adaotten an appointment with the secretary of state to see heels she could grease with respect to the release of foreign prisoners Bodie orking on Ivy’s files And I aiting--for the kinge of the plan to go into effect

The doorbell rang Bodie answered it with a gun

"I come in peace!" Asher announced on the front porch "Your friendly neighborhood rogue, recently suspected of un

"Tess," he yelled, "you have company"

As I came to stand face-to-face with Asher, I didn’t question the fact that in thejokes Huainst the world

I met his eyes, and that defense crue a smile now

"Emilia saved me," I told him I are, on soer to realize that I was crying I told Emilia’s twin about the way she’d walked out into the line of fire, her head held high

"It would take more than mere terrorists," Asher said, "to keep htly on the words but kept talking "I think we both know she’s probably coe essay about the whole experience in her head as we speak"

I nodded, the edges ofabout E so the eyes"

Vivvie is facedown on a floor soun

"I’m sorry," Asher blurted out "I knoasn’tI know you’re not" I’d never heard Asher at a loss for words "I should have been there," he said finally

If he hadn’t been suspended