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Seven Devils had apparently been at the top of it, just like his parents. And given what he knew about his parents, that made the surviving Devils dodgy as fuck, no matter that Gabriel hadn’t been able to find anything on them.
    â€œKeep looking,” he said, putting his gloves on. “Men like that don’t get to be where they are without some kind of casualties.”
    â€œApparently.” Gabriel’s voice was expressionless, but Zac heard the undertone anyway. Don’t tell me what to fucking do.
    â€œI should go,” Zac said curtly, before he could make the situation any worse. “There are some leads with the players in that game I need to follow up on.”
    Dear God. It was clear he had to do something about this obsession. Maybe he should just overcome his fucking scruples and accept the offer from that little sub in Limbo.
    Or maybe you should just collect what you’re owed from Eva. After seven years, don’t you think you deserve it?
    Ah, but he couldn’t think like that. That was the mercenary in him doing the talking. The man who wanted payment for his services, whose only loyalty was to the dollar. Yes, he’d been that man for years after the army had let him down. But then he’d met Eva and he’d found himself a new loyalty.
    He couldn’t selfishly take from her like all the rest. What kind of gentleman did that to a woman?
    How long are you going to persist with that nonsense? You know what you are at heart. What you need. You need to break her.
    And then, perhaps finally, you can both move on.
    *   *   *
    Eva let herself into her apartment—the top-floor penthouse of a building she leased with a view over the Brooklyn Bridge—but she didn’t bother with the lights. She never did. It made her feel too much on display, and this way she had the sense of looking out while being able to stay hidden, a far better feeling.
    She dumped the battered satchel that doubled as her purse on the floor of her lounge and went over to the only piece of furniture in the vast space. A massive desk with a bank of computer monitors set up on it, all showing different things. Newsfeeds and stock tickers. Camera feeds and YouTube videos. Email programs. And one monitor entirely devoted to a computer game she was currently playing—an online role-playing game.
    Her window onto the world.
    Because you can’t go through the door anymore, right?
    Eva ignored the thought. Her head often said the most ridiculous things.
    Dropping into her chair, she let out a sigh as the constant tension she always felt when she was out of her apartment fell away. Like hands that had been squeezing her tight had suddenly let go, allowing her to breathe normally.
    Thank God for this place. It was her sanctuary. Her haven. Her refuge. She never invited anyone here, never had guests of any kind. Not even Zac. This place was hers and hers alone. And since she’d never had anything that was hers alone, it was precious.
    She leaned back in the chair and reflexively checked her feeds. Nothing of note had happened since she’d been out having drinks with Honor at the Second Circle. Alex’s sister was making an effort to befriend her for no good reason that Eva could see. Honor was a nice woman but Eva preferred Katya’s approach. Which was a brisk nod of greeting then silence.
    Eva had never been one for girly chats. Then again, she’d never had a girl as a friend to have girly chats with so she was kind of out of practice.
    Reaching for her mouse, she checked the search she’d plugged into one of the computers earlier that day, the one running the still taken from the security video. She’d put it through some of Void Angel’s specialized facial recognition software—programs she’d designed herself—and was now in the process of checking it against various classified databases.
    Still nothing.
    She nibbled on a nail,