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We had more eyes and ears on Megan than we had on the insurgent leaders in Afghanistan. Ford called his contact at the FBI, and they’d been more than interested in what we knew about the dagger. After Straight had contacted the authorities, the FBI themselves had gotten involved. To have an open and shut case and nab Burns in the process?
Their d***s were hard at the opportunity.
Yet I was the only one who had skin in this game. It was my woman who was in there with those assholes. It wasn’t a Boy Scout pack meeting she’d dropped in on. They were dangerous thugs, and I didn’t like her anywhere near them. I had a feeling she’d be the only one in the place without a weapon.
But she dealt with the wrong side of the law at work, so it wasn’t as if she was a soccer mom not up for
