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Ryan was surprised. “You will?”

Pushing the list back across the table, he smiled and said, “No. Sloane and Chase should take it.

“Are you sure?”

“I’m positive,” he replied. Like it or not, he was the spymaster now. “Give them a limited expense account and three weeks to finish the job. It’s time to turn them loose and to see what they can do.”

“Does that mean you’re going to stick around?” asked Ryan.

“For a day or two,” he said with a wink, as he stood up from the table and walked out the door to be with Lara.

But outside, something was wrong. He could see it in her body language as he walked toward her. Before he even saw the shooters, he knew what had happened. Kopec had betrayed them.

“Run!” Lara screamed.