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ll him. Just a little more pressure…

“Would I lie to you now?” Hamilton gasped. “When my life is at stake? She left me. I swear, it’s the truth.”

“What about that list of undercover agents you say she stole? I suppose she just handed it over before she took off.”

“Of course! She knew she had no choice, if she wanted me to hush things up.”

Matthew’s thumbs pressed deeper. Hamilton gurgled. This couldn’t be the truth. Not about Mia…

And yet. And yet…

She’d left him without protest that night. Yes, she’d reversed the bit about the tattoos, but so what? It wasn’t as if she’d gotten the theory of evolution wrong. Which tattoo he and his brothers had argued over wasn’t exactly world-shaking.

“Matt?”

But that other thing she’d said. About the end justifying the means…

“Matt!”

He looked up. Alex and Cam were standing on either side of him.

“The Agency can get a lot out of him,” Cam said softly. “Finish him off, what he knows about the cartel dies with him.”

Training. Discipline. The code of honor Matthew lived by took over. He lifted his hands from Hamilton’s throat and stepped back.

“I’m going to find her,” he said, as much to his brothers as to their purple-faced prisoner.

“Fine. Just wait until the Agency cleanup crew arrives and we’ll go with you.”

Matthew shook his head. “I’m going alone.”

“Matt. Wait for us. You don’t even know where to start looking.”

“I’m going alone,” he said softly. “That’s how it has to be.”

The Knights waited for the cleanup crew.

They’d take care of everything, the way they always did.

An hour later, Matthew stood outside the colonel’s house with his brothers. Cam rubbed his hands over his face and yawned. “What I need is a steak, a pot of coffee—and a plane home.”

Alex nodded. “The same here.”

They looked at Matthew.

“What I need,” he said tonelessly, “are some answers.”

“Matt,” Cam said, “look, man, sometimes a thing just doesn’t work out the way you hope, you know?”

“I have to know the truth.”

“You mean—you mean, if she’s—if she’s dead…”

“She isn’t.” Matthew frowned, knowing how crazy he’d sound. “I’d know it, if she were.”

“Yeah.” Alex nodded. “Well, then, what Hamilton said. About her going with him willingly—”

“I know what he said.”