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Joshua shrugged “They had accents that would have put thelish to one another All five of theirls, but two of the The others didn’t so , so it was a common practice Clearly, they’d seen it done before None irls were bloody and broken, they used theether for so similar practices”

“You didn’t get the impression they were related?”

“They could have been, but I didn’t stop to look to see if they had similar features I took the but vile scuht have been a little insane,” he admitted, and rubbed at his temples as if he had a headache

“I would have done the same,” Fyodor admitted “They would have died slow, and they would have died hard”

Timur nodded and looked at Gorya Gorya turned away from them Sevastyan didn’t make a statement, but he looked at Mitya Mitya knew Sevastyan would have done far worse to those

“We aren’t saints here, Joshua,” Mitya said “Any of us The bottom line is this: We have an enemy, all of us He wants to sow suspicion between us, which, I’ll ad into They have infiltrated Joshua’s family Jake’s as well We have to be very careful now, because e bring anyone new in, they could be a potential Amory”

“Ania pointed out that he doesn’t have an endless supply of shifters,” Sevastyan added

Mitya nodded “She’s right They don’t, any et it out there that we found the notebook That way, they won’t have a reason for continuing their attack on Ania or her house I think they’ll back off for a while and then come at us from a different direction”

“That ives us so with Joshua is the only tie that is between us that I can see I did help with the investigation into the Bogomolov fa a connection, especially when these sleepers have infiltrated a couple of years ago”

He looked at Jake “I’ht I could keep you away from the worst of it”

Jake shrugged “We knew there was that chance In any case, we have the notebook, not anyone else No one’s seen it, so at least for now, my name is still not connected, more than loosely as your friend, to any crime family Eli is in the clear as well He’s nowhere in there, because Amory left my house before he came on board He had a recruit, he clearly states that, but the recruit hasn’t figured out what’s going on”

“Most likely because you’re a paranoid son of a bitch and you don’t let anyone near your office Amory was patient and worked his way up to security in the house,” Drake said “Be careful not to let on that anything is different, Jake”

“That may not be true,” Mitya said “There’s a possibility that a copy was made of this notebook and sent to the Caruso family Antosha drove frolanced at the notebook and didn’t read it Whether the Caruso family read it or it was stolen before they could, who knows, but we have to assume they read it”

“Great We’ll have to figure out a way to do dae control,” Drake said “Watch your six, Jake”

Jake gave hiet home to my woman Now I’m really paranoid”

He took two steps and then the world seeh to send nearly everyone to the floor The sound was deafening Windows exploded, sending glass in all directions Gunfire erupted Sprinklers went off as fla roo to wait for another explosion19“GET the women in the safe room!” Fyodor shouted and hit the button under the table so that the wall opened up to reveal an array of weapons as well as gas masks

Mitya got to his feet, wishing he could see his woht,” he said “Sevastyan?”

Sevastyan stuck his head out of the roo to the great rooly it wasn’t as big as it had sounded, about four feet high and three feet wide S with dust and debris Wood splintered, and great jagged pieces pointed toward the inside of the rooiant spears