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it!” he demanded, lowering his voice.
    Tori didn’t speak . If she did, she’d tell him there was no way in hell she was running from whatever was in that cave and leaving him behind.
    Never going to happen!
    Julian pulled out his keychain, using the tiny light that was hanging there. It wasn’t much, but it was better than wandering into a cave blind. There could be wild, hungry animals making it their home. He could feel Tori’s hand on his lower back, reassuringly reminding him she was with him. Stepping into the mouth of the fissure, the odor was now even more pungent and overpowering.
    Tori was hit with the smell and wanted to vomit. It was the worst stench of death she ’d ever encountered in her life. That was saying a lot, since working for the FBI for four years had shown her so much murder and violence.
    This was completely above and beyond anything she’d encountered.
    “Holy shit,” muttered Julian, scanning the inside of the cave before backing up. “Get out, Victoria!” he ordered, moving with her to escape what he’d just seen.
    “What is it, Julian?” she inquired, already sure she knew.
    Once outside he grabbed her hand. “We need to get out of here and to the police station.”
    “Is it a body?” she asked, knowing her nose never lied.
    “Worse. We just found someone’s dumping ground.”
    “Oh God!” she whispered.
    “You could say that again.”
     
     
     
    Two days prior to their discovery.
           Sunday Morning
     
     
    Sometimes bei ng Director of Native American Affairs was the thorn in Callen Whitefox’s side. The last thing he wanted to be doing was sitting at the Red River Reservation, mediating such ridiculous arguing.
    When he was given the job in the FBI, his brother believed he was calm and level headed enough to pull it off. Well, that and Ethan Blackhawk had no patience for it himself. With this assignment, he totally understood that. The council was in an uproar, the local police were pissed off, and all that stood between a major argument and a meltdown was him.
    Great… .
    He’d never seen such complete and total jackassery. It was a waste of his time and the taxpayer’s money. At that very moment, there were places he’d rather be. He’d left his family three hours away and honestly, that’s where his mind and heart were every second of the day.
    The woman in his life was pregnant with his child, and leaving her side was getting progressively more and more difficult. Every assignment away gave Callen increasing anxiety. Not because he worried about her, because Elizabeth Blackhawk was tough and his brother would keep her completely safe, but because he didn’t want to miss a single moment of their pregnancy. They’d just confirmed that they were definitely having a boy, and he had to run off to mediate this hot mess.
    God, h e was having a son!
    Those words did something to him on a primitive man- level. It brought out the barbarian in him, making him possessive, proprietary and over protective. His woman was giving him a precious gift. Nothing sang to the male part of him more than this pregnancy. Forcing himself to refocus, he stared back up at the men arguing in front of him.
    Yeah, there were days when he wished he could bag it all and stick by her side like glue . Today was one of them. This assignment didn’t bode well and getting home in less than five days was beginning to look like an improbability. The more he thought about it, if he was home in two weeks it would be a small miracle.
    By home, Callen meant the house that he, his brother, and Elizabeth called their own. ‘ Fort Blackhawk-Whitefox’ as they affectionately referred was currently under construction. They’d just finished putting in an apartment over the garage for their father, Wyler. Now, they were adding onto the side of the massive stone house for the new baby. At first they were going to let CJ and the baby share a room, but until EJ was sleeping through the night, no