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Chapters (82)
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  4. ONE
  5. TWO
  6. THREE
  7. FOUR
  8. FIVE
  9. SIX
  10. SEVEN
  11. EIGHT
  12. NINE
  13. TEN
  14. ELEVEN
  15. TWELVE
  16. THIRTEEN
  17. FOURTEEN
  18. FIFTEEN
  19. SIXTEEN
  20. SEVENTEEN
  21. EIGHTEEN
  22. NINETEEN
  23. TWENTY
  24. TWENTY-ONE
  25. TWENTY-TWO
  26. TWENTY-THREE
  27. TWENTY-FOUR
  28. TWENTY-FIVE
  29. TWENTY-SIX
  30. TWENTY-SEVEN
  31. TWENTY-EIGHT
  32. TWENTY-NINE
  33. THIRTY
  34. THIRTY-ONE
  35. THIRTY-TWO
  36. THIRTY-THREE
  37. THIRTY-FOUR
  38. THIRTY-FIVE
  39. THIRTY-SIX
  40. THIRTY-SEVEN
  41. THIRTY-EIGHT
  42. THIRTY-NINE
  43. FORTY
  44. FORTY-ONE
  45. FORTY-TWO
  46. FORTY-THREE
  47. FORTY-FOUR
  48. FORTY-FIVE
  49. FORTY-SIX
  50. FORTY-SEVEN
  51. FORTY-EIGHT
  52. FORTY-NINE
  53. FIFTY
  54. FIFTY-ONE
  55. FIFTY-TWO
  56. FIFTY-THREE
  57. FIFTY-FOUR
  58. FIFTY-FIVE
  59. FIFTY-SIX
  60. FIFTY-SEVEN
  61. FIFTY-EIGHT
  62. FIFTY-NINE
  63. SIXTY
  64. SIXTY-ONE
  65. SIXTY-TWO
  66. SIXTY-THREE
  67. SIXTY-FOUR
  68. SIXTY-FIVE
  69. SIXTY-SIX
  70. SIXTY-SEVEN
  71. SIXTY-EIGHT
  72. SIXTY-NINE
  73. SEVENTY
  74. SEVENTY-ONE
  75. SEVENTY-TWO
  76. SEVENTY-THREE
  77. SEVENTY-FOUR
  78. SEVENTY-FIVE
  79. SEVENTY-SIX
  80. Praise for Blood in the Water
  81. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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“I’m already in the line of fire,” Cormack pointed out. “Soh’s going to come after me. If not now, then later.”

“Maybe,” Kit said. “But he can’t come after you if he doesn’t know where you are. And he’s not going to want to split his resources. If he’s going to try something at the courthouse, he’s probably going to keep all of his focus there.”

“Even so,” Cormack said, “my men and I might be useful.”

“I’m sure,” Kit said. “But I can’t take on that responsibility.” She picked her head up and kissed him. “Not anymore.” She got out of bed and put on her clothes.

He sat there in bed, his head swimming. He had too many questions rushing at him all at once. “This doesn’t make any sense,” he said. “You need all the help you can get. And I need all the help I can get. We’re on the same team.”

She looked at him, and the intimacy that he thought he’d detected earlier seemed to be gone. “We’re not on the same team. Not really,” she said. “Everything I’ve done with you has been illegal. I’ve never had authorization for any of it. You know that.”

“I know that,” he conceded. “But it’s been in everyone’s best interests.”

“Has it?” she asked. “Maybe it has. I don’t know anymore. All I know is that I’ve taken care of this,” she said. “I need you to not interfere tomorrow.”

“That’s it?”

“For now,” she said. “Not forever.” She leaned over the bed and kissed him. There was none of the warmth that there had been before. “I have to leave, I have somewhere I need to be. You can let yourself out.”

She walked around the half-wall that served to cordon off the bedroom area. In the large open space he could hear her shoes clack over the wooden floors. He heard the front door open and then slam shut.

SIXTY-ONE

Kit had George Martin run the meeting. Boston’s law enforcement community was still an old boys’ club at the higher echelons, and she knew that she had a tendency to antagonize those within the establishment. Having Agent Martin run the meeting would also appear to put distance between herself and the information she’d received from Soh. She’d told Martin that she had an informant, and after some convincing, he’d accepted the accuracy of the information without knowing the specific source. The two of them had discussed the plan at length. Now he was relaying that plan to the other men in charge of security for the next day’s hearing at the court.