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His gaze darkened. “Exactly. I’m certain that area was covered by the security feed when we set it up.”

Jake’s thoughts continued to race. “How serious is this information that was stolen?”

“We’re still trying to get to the bottom of that.” Colton’s steely gaze remained hard.

They reached the site, and Jake stared at the spot where the bomb had ignited.

Flashbacks of yesterday hit him, and a quiver rippled through his muscles.

He couldn’t let his emotions get the best of him. Right now, he needed to concentrate on finding answers, not on reliving what could have been a disaster.

“I know you know this already,” Jake started. “But the person who’s doing this is talented, very skilled, and highly experienced with explosives.”

“If that’s true, we can narrow our suspects down to the men who came in with you.”

Jake frowned. “My thoughts exactly.”

“You know those guys probably better than most of us since you trained together,” Colton paused and turned toward him. “Do you think any of them are capable of doing this?”

Jake’s jaw tightened. The last thing he wanted to do was to throw one of his colleagues under the bus. But he also didn’twant to put everyone at Blackout in danger by keeping his mouth shut out of misplaced loyalty.

Computer genius Maverick had the skills to hack into any system.

Hudson “the Muscle” Roberts was aggressive enough to enact a daring plan.

Kyle was so slick no one would notice what he was doing.

But there was only one man Jake could see pulling this off on his own—someone who had all those skills.

He drew in a slow breath before saying, “I hate to say it, but Atlas has all the skills to do this. However, I don’t think it’s in his character.”

“Or he could be a great actor.” Colton gave him a sideways glance.

Jake wanted to argue, but he couldn’t. Colton was right. Some of the best operatives had also mastered the art of deceit.

“So what are you going to do?” Jake studied Colton’s face, curious what he would do with that information.

“I’m not going to accuse anyone yet,” Colton said. “I’m going to keep my eye on those guys, though. I’ll have some of my most trusted colleagues do the same. We can’t let something like this happen again. Next time, we might not be so lucky.”

Jake could only nod. Colton was right.

The more this escalated, the greater the chances were that someone Jake cared about would be hurt . . . or worse.

That they could die.

CHAPTER 37

When Raven finished her phone call, she headed to the lobby to wait for Jake.

However, she couldn’t get the conversation with her father out of her head.

What did he know? Who were they up against right now?

Sigma . . . should that name be familiar to her?

Maybe. But she didn’t know how or why.

All the questions only served to frustrate her.