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and nodded. She made her peace with Kathy before she left the last time. They actually formed a friendship after Stacey’s relationship with Derek, Kathy’s husband, was explained. Stacey helped Derek take down the man who kidnapped Katherine and even stayed around for their wedding.
    Hugh started pushing for a relationship and Stacey ran again. She couldn’t commit to him when she kept so many secrets. Now her whole life blew apart and the only person she could rely on was the man she ran from.
    The way he looked at her when he realized she was Stinger cut right to the heart. She wasn’t even sure he still wanted her. They probably should take some time to talk about it, but finding out if her father was a traitor took precedence. After this whole mess was over, they’d find the time they needed.
    “Okay, I asked my brother to join us since he knows Stacey and is part of this. Derek should be here any minute,” Raven said. “Nadezhda, were you able to get a hold of your team? If they want to come into the clinic, Dr. Rick can check them for tracking chips.”
    “Thank you, Mr. Darkwood, however that would also let you know the identity of every member of my team. Part of what makes our team accomplished is the anonymity. Now that we know of the problem, we can take care of it.”
    “Just trying to be helpful, Ms. Konstantinov. I have some other bad news. Stacey, the house you owned as Ana Powers blew up in an apparent gas leak at 4:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.”
    Stacey felt a wave of cold wash over her. If she hadn’t suffered from insomnia, thinking about her sister, she would have died in the explosion. Instead she’d packed and left a little after three, barely an hour before the explosion.
    “Dammit! Stacey, someone wants you dead.” Hugh gripped her hand almost painfully.
    “It looks that way,” she answered. All of her things gone. “I never thanked you for the book you sent, Hugh. I read it before I left for the cabin in New York.”
    Stacey didn’t have a lot of mementos from her life as Anastacia Holland, she learned early on that things like this could happen, one by one items dear to her were lost, and now the picture of her mother. The book of poetry Hugh sent made it to the cabin to be blown up there. They were just things, even if they couldn’t be replaced easily.
    The door opened and Derek “Red Hawk” Darkwood walked in. “Sorry, I’m late. Hi, honey.” Derek walked over to Katherine and kissed her. Stacey smiled to see the love between the couple. Derek still looked like every woman’s fantasy lover, which is how he got the reputation as a playboy, but he did well when he picked Kathy.
    Katherine whispered something to him and pushed Derek toward the conference table before leaving the room.
    “Now that we’re all here, what did you come up with?”
    “Well, it could be nothing, or a whole lot of something. I’m not sure,” Hugh said. “Remember that French doctor that kidnapped Derek in the Amazon, I found her name on the records of that pharmaceutical company that also makes the tracking chips. She was listed as a member of their research team.”
    “So, you’re saying she might have known I was in the Amazon and targeted me specifically?” Derek asked.
    “Well, if we look at what’s been happening since the incident with Faheed Adar and the terrorists kidnapping Cara, there are several people who can be traced. The blond haired man you saw in Iran with Adar was reportedly taken into custody. But I did a facial recognition scan on the drawing Raven made and a possible hit came up with 89 percent probability. Jason Hardy is considered a person of interest, and both the CIA and FBI list him on their most wanted index. He is considered to still be abroad and active.”
    “So the general lied?” Raven asked.
    “Or someone lied to the general,” Derek said. “Remember that his aide was a traitor. He could have told the general the man was taken into custody when he