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name.”
    The tension in the room tightened a notch.
    He didn’t like the way Gabriel was pushing, even though the other man was right and Zac knew it. “I said I’ll get it.” He met Gabriel’s dark eyes, letting his friend see his anger. “Or do you not trust me?”
    A silence fell.
    â€œYes, of course we trust you.” Alex sounded bored as he shifted on the couch, another flash of pain crossing his face. “Don’t get your panties in a twist. Anyway, I hope she’s being careful. That fucking mercenary Elijah wasn’t kidding when he said he wanted you two to drop the investigation.”
    Zac let his anger die down a little. “This is Eva, remember? If she doesn’t want to be found, she won’t be.” And she wouldn’t. She was the equivalent of a digital ghost.
    Alex frowned. “So we don’t know what resources they have. Whoever the fuck ‘they’ are. If they’re involved in human trafficking, then they’re bound to have some pretty sophisticated systems in place, especially if they’ve managed to go so long without being caught. And shit, if they can shoot Tremain in the middle of Central Park in broad daylight, they could catch Eva too. We can’t underestimate them.”
    â€œAnd we won’t. But if there’s one thing Eva knows, it’s code.”
    The other man’s blue gaze narrowed. “Speaking of Elijah, did you ever turn up any info on him?”
    His friend hadn’t given him much to go on, but Zac had sent out extensive feelers trying to find any information he could about the mercenary that Alex had met in Monaco. Yet his contacts had all come up empty. It didn’t surprise him. If a man didn’t want to be found, there were ways and means of going about it.
    â€œNo,” he said. “Not a thing. I would have told you if I had.”
    â€œShit. Well there goes that avenue.” Alex leaned back against the couch cushions. “What about that girl I sent back to you?”
    The young woman Alex and Katya had rescued from the casino a week ago. Zac had got her sorted with new documents and money and a safe place to live while she went about trying to find her family. It had been distressing, especially because she’d had very similar mannerisms to Eva, which only made the suspicions he already had about his friend worse.
    â€œShe’s okay. At least as well as can be expected.”
    Alex nodded. “Good.
    Zac reached into the pockets of his overcoat and brought out his gloves. “We won’t mention this meeting to Eva, are we clear?”
    â€œZac.” Gabriel’s voice was flat.
    â€œWhat?” He met the other man’s dark eyes.
    â€œSettle the fuck down.”
    And he realized, with a kind of shock, how tense he was. That his hands were in fists. That he was ready to fight, to impress his authority and his dominance on the other two.
    He’d never done that before. He was normally the one who calmed the situation, who got others back on track, not himself.
    Bloody Christ. This was worse than he thought.
    It took a supreme effort of will to not stare Gabriel down like he would a sub questioning his authority. To relax the tension in his shoulders and neck.
    â€œWhat about the other Devils?” he asked the other man curtly in a graceless change of subject. He wouldn’t apologize. That was one concession too far. “Any leads on them?”
    Gabriel shook his head. “With Elliot and Jordan dead, there’s only Mantel and Fitzgerald left. And nothing major’s come up so far. Inherited wealth in both cases; Mantel took on his daddy’s manufacturing empire, while Fitzgerald expanded the family real-estate portfolio.”
    So pretty much what Zac had already discovered for himself. Powerful men from powerful families, aristocrats in a country with apparently no class system. What a joke.
    Money was a class system. And the