Sixteen It took the two of them almost five full minutes to push Adams’s unconscious body into his auto and command it to return him home. While they worked, her mind reeled. He’d known the IED was in the auto. He’d known and hadn’t told me. If he’d told me I could’ve sent Davion and Kaiden anywhere else. I could’ve sent them to an adjacent building. I could’ve put them in a CityRide. I could’ve done anything…anything but tell them to hide in the auto I thought was safe. She was sweating by the time the auto’s doors closed and it sped away. Once it had disappeared into the traffic beyond, Tove said, “Shall we talk inside?” She didn’t think he’d have gone through the trouble of using his occ-mod implant, his right as a medical doctor, to incapacitate a police commander if he wasn’t

