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concerned, this had always been an enjoyable company to work for, but the fairly recent addition of several wives to the executive floors madeit even more so. Not only were they beautiful women, but they had brought a dash of the unexpected into Long Enterprises. To Phil’s mind, they didn’t seem to typify executive wives, but since their husbands weren’t typical executives, that just made things all the more interesting.
    You just never knew, Phil reflected happily, what these interesting people were going to be up to next.…
    Teddy went into the huge computer room with its massive central brain and database, which was currently deserted except for two other women at a worktable near the floor-to-ceiling windows. The woman nearest Teddy was tall and lovely with sable hair and vivid blue-green eyes; the wife of Lucas, Long Enterprises’ chief investigator, Kyle Kendrick possessed the aristocratic features and background of a society deb and the courage and daring of a stuntwoman. She was also enormously intelligent.
    The second woman, also tall, had blue-blackhair and merry violet eyes, was striking rather than beautiful, and was perfectly capable, in her husband’s absence, of running the worldwide financial empire that was Long Enterprises. She was also nerveless, daring, smart, and quite experienced in walking the dark side of the streets. She was Raven Long, wife of Josh Long, and currently in charge of her husband’s empire.
    “Hi,” Teddy offered, signaling with her hand for her canine pal Wizard to lie down.
    “Hi, yourself,” Kyle responded, smiling. “What’s up?”
    “I’ve got a problem,” Teddy told them.
    Raven grinned at her. “Don’t tell me. Zach heard—somehow—that you went with us to that diplomatic bash last night and is having a long-distance fit.”
    “I wouldn’t be surprised if he heard. The man has built-in radar that never fails to tell him when I’m being ‘stubborn’ by sticking my head out a window without a bulletproof shield. Honestly! Besides, if he
does
find out, I can arguethere were more guards in that place than you could find in Fort Knox.”
    “Well,” Raven said reasonably, “with the guys all out of the country, they’re bound to worry. Somebody had to stay and mind the castle, and they could hardly expect us to pull up the drawbridge and flood that moat while they’re gone.”
    “I just wish they’d find out something,” Kyle said, frowning a little. “No enemy would go to all the trouble of testing the company’s security without following through.” She shook her head and, since there was nothing any of them could do about the fact that all three of their husbands were busy searching for a faceless enemy hiding in shadows, she tried to stop thinking about it.
    “They’ll be all right,” Raven said, and if the words were calm and certain, her voice might have wavered just a bit. Of them all, Raven had the most experience of the darker side of life—and of the darker side of human nature; in addition, she had the added burden of knowing it was Josh their faceless enemy had targeted.
    “Of course they will,” Teddy said, having implicit faith in all their men.
    Raven smiled quickly. “With the office pretty much closed for the weekend and no business crises in the offing, we have too much time to brood. We need something to occupy our minds. So …” She looked at Teddy. “What’s your problem?”
    From her huge and rather overstuffed shoulder bag, Teddy unearthed a large manila envelope. “A friend of mine from San Francisco sent me this three days ago,” she told them, and began spreading papers out on the worktable.
    Raven’s merry eyes went grim as she studied the papers, and after she’d read the handwritten note attached, she looked at Teddy with a sober expression. “You haven’t heard from her, I take it?”
    “No. Not a word.”
    “Background,” Raven requested, and Kyle looked up from the papers attentively.
    Teddy put