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wait for us to be alone. No matter what was happening in our lives or how much we disagreed about our future, making love with Roc had the power to pull me back into the web of deceit, and make me forget about all the things I desperately needed to do. Like getting out of this game before I lost what was left of my soul.
    Tonight my heart was far too vulnerable to be alone with Roc. If I stayed with him again, we’d end up having yet another argument about our future. It seemed like lately that was all we ever did. We argued. We made love.
    “Mark received some disturbing intelligence earlier today which seems to indicate Jeremiah Silvers is here in D.C. Coupled with the incident a few weeks back, I’d say this is a bad omen. But what I want to know is how this could happen right here under our very noses? Why didn’t any of us have some inkling this was coming before now?” Roc’s announcement was met with a flurry of astonished remarks, excuses, and questions. He answered as many as possible before turning the floor over to Mark.
    Although The Agency had originally been Roc’s brainchild, Mark had been a huge part of its success. Mark was The Agency’s intelligence guru and a virtual genius when it came to computers. He knew how to work the system along with his snitches to get valuable information.
    “When the hell did he arrive?” Stevie demanded in his usual blunt way. “And excuse me for being the one to point this out, but isn’t it intelligence’s job to find out these things before they actually happen?” At this expected jab, Mark threw Stevie a look that made his reaction to Stevie’s position perfectly clear.
    “This is all our responsibility. One of us should have picked him up before now,” Roc interrupted before the usual argument could ensue. Roc hated acting as a buffer against Stevie’s constant belittling of Mark. It amounted to little more than petty jealousy.
    “Well, how do we know this isn’t just one of Mark’s snitches trying to steer us off what’s really going on inside the FLA?” Stevie seemed to want to get a rise out of Mark.
    As second-in-command, Mark was in charge when Roc was away on assignment. Stevie always resented this. He believed Mark lacked the proper leadership qualities Roc possessed.
    “Like it or not, Stevie, the threat is real enough. And every one of us dropped the ball on this. There’s going to be hell to pay when the big guy gets wind of it.” Mark looked directly at Roc who only shook his head. Ed Peyton’s temper was notorious when something didn’t go his way. Ed hated looking bad in front of his superiors. This certainly wasn’t going to be a shining moment for him or The Agency. “And it has been confirmed. This isn’t a mistake. We’ve had surveillance on Silvers for quite some time now, but he gave us the slip a few days ago. We just picked him up again here in D.C. earlier today. It’s definitely Jeremiah Silvers. Somehow, he’s managed to penetrate what was supposed to be an unbreachable line of defense. Anyone want to venture a guess as to how that happened?”
    “He would have had help getting in. We all know most of his people were trained by our own military,” I said, trying not to show the team how the mention of Jeremiah Silvers’ name rattled me. I was terrified for my brother, if in fact, he turned out to be the notorious terrorist, but the worst would be yet to come if someone from the team ever connected me to Justin a.k.a. Jeremiah. My heart raced as I addressed the room. “Someone who knows all the tricks of the trade, and who knew exactly what we’d be looking for. How to get beyond our security, and get Silvers into the city undetected. Probably the same person who cracked our security defenses earlier.”
    “That’s what we’re starting to believe. This has all the makings of an inside job. Someone with high-level security clearance, who knows exactly how we’d go about tracking Silvers’ movements.” Roc