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  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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She’d come back to consciousness with a start, drenched in sweat, her pulse beating so fast she wondered whether she was having a heart attack. It had taken fifteen minutes for her to compose herself enough to sit up on the cot, and she still wasn’t sure that she’d really recovered from the dream now. Nor had she recovered from the revelation that Carpio was the one who had killed Ollie. There were too many thoughts and emotions swirling for her to think clearly.

“Special Agent Steele?”

It was Warden Stevens speaking to her, and she realized that she had been lost in her remembrance of the awful dream. There were other members of the transfer detail in the room, and they were all looking at her curiously. She didn’t know what to say; she had no idea what aspect of the process they’d been discussing. Her mind raced, looking for something to say to inspire confidence, or at least allay any fear that she might have lost her mind.

Just then her phone buzzed. She pulled it out and looked at the caller ID.

“Sorry, I need to take this,” she said. It was weak, but it at least allowed her to escape further scrutiny for a moment. She stepped out of the room.

“What are you doing calling me?” she demanded as she answered.

“I needed to talk to you,” Cormack said. There was no apology or defensiveness in his tone. “I got a call. Someone offering me information about Carpio’s brother.”

“I told you, I need you to stay out of this.”

“I know,” he said. “I didn’t say that I would, though.”

“I need you to say it now. I have this under control. I have all the information I need.”

“No one has all the information they need,” Cormack said. “You can always have more.”

“Cormack, listen to me,” Kit said. “It’s a trap. Soh wants you dead. I know that for a fact. This would be one way to accomplish that. Please don’t go. Just stay wherever you are until this is all over.”

“I’m not sure I can do that.”

“You have to. For me. I…” She almost said the words.

“You what?” He’d heard it in her voice, she could tell, and that scared her almost as much as the dream about Ollie had. “You what?” he asked again.

“I want you to be safe.”

She could hear him breathing on the other end of the line. “That’s it?”

“What do you mean?”

“I thought you were going to say something else,” he said.

“You were wrong.”

“Was I?”