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clenched teeth
for the tenth time. “What did you expect me to do? Just watch ?”
    “ She was calming down.” I
pace the hospital room, irritated beyond
measure that I am here again so soon. “She
was fine.”
    “ Stop arguing.” Jeremiah
makes a final adjustment to Jesse’s IV. “There were many lives on
the roof, and we needed to sedate her. Surely you can understand
that, Alice.”
    I glare at Jeremiah as I wring the
metal bar at the foot of Jesse’s bed. Nikki I have patience for.
She is certainly patient enough with me. But Jeremiah has some
explaining to do. “How did Caldwell get up there? I thought he had
to see where he was going.”
    Jeremiah pushes his glasses higher up
on his nose. “I can’t possibly predict his every move.”
    “ You mentioned a name on
the roof?” Nikki hasn’t tried to get close to me since we left the
roof.
    I meet Nikki’s eyes and soften at the
sight of her wide, concerned eyes. “Maisie. Caldwell has a second
daughter.”
    “ How could you possibly
know that?” Jeremiah asks, placing his hands on his
hips.
    “ Brinkley told me.” I hope
that I’m a better liar than Jesse. “Not long before he died, he
told me about one of his first FBRD cases, which involved
her.”
    Questions are written all over their
faces, but I look away.
    “ Why didn’t you tell us
Caldwell has another daughter?”
    “ You didn’t ask.” I press
my hands to Jesse’s cheeks. They’re growing warmer.
Good.
    “ We’re a team.” Jeremiah
falls back on his position as commander. “We can’t keep things from
each other.”
    Yet, I don’t trust
you , I think. I’m not saying Jeremiah is a
bad man. I’m saying that he seems willing to pay any price to
destroy Caldwell and I think some prices are too high.
    “ We invited you and Jesse
here to be part of a team. Teams work together. We share
information, not hide it.”
    I know where my loyalty lies. “I
wouldn’t mention ‘working together’ when Jesse wakes up. She’s
going to want you to ‘work together’ to get her dog
back.”
    “ Out of the question,”
Jeremiah says. “I can’t spare my resources on a rescue mission for
a dog.”
    Nikki glances at him, mouth slightly
ajar.
    “ What is it, Tamsin?” he
asks, challenging her to open her mouth. He’s never been foolish
enough to offer Jesse such an invitation. It reminds me of how
different he treats Jesse than everyone else. What I wouldn’t give
to know why.
    “ Sullivan is an important
member of our team. With continued investment and support, she will
help us achieve our objectives.”
    My heart warms at her words. She’s
willing to advocate for Jesse even though Jesse has never been nice
to her. But that’s just how Nikki is.
    “ Agreed,” Jeremiah says,
wearily.
    “ If you deny her request
to retrieve Winston, we will likely see backlash from that refusal.
She may leave our charge altogether,” Nikki says. “This would be
terrible timing given Caldwell’s movements.”
    “ She’ll go get Winston
with or without you,” I say, hoping to add weight to Nikki’s
argument.
    Caldwell’s movements. I
linger on Nikki’s point. It was Jeremiah’s strongest selling point
in our coming to Chicago. Caldwell has
renovated almost twelve buildings in the city to have no windows or
doors. It’s strange. The city believes it is some kind of art
installation, a giant joke to be explained later. I think it’s a
very bad sign.
    “ You’re asking me if the
lives of my men are worth more than one pug ,” Jeremiah says.
    Both Nikki and I tense for his
possible reaction, but he doesn’t say anything. His face turns red
as if he is holding his breath. Then he turns and storms from the
room.
    “ He’s being unreasonable,”
I say, staring at the door, half-expecting him to return. “Did you
see how he disregarded Winston?”
    “ Caldwell kills thousands
of people a year.” Nikki comes to stand beside me. “Are their lives
worth less than Jesse’s?”
    To me , I