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expecting company and probably wasn’t thrilled to be sharing his retreat with her.  His sense of obligation to repay his debt to her was most likely his only reason for bringing her here.   He had saved her life. That much she had to admit, no matter how irritated she was with him.  
    She inhaled the fresh mountain air, taking pleasure from the decidedly cooler temperatures than Miami, and took another swig of beer.  She enjoyed the bitter taste and the fizzy bubbles as they rolled across her tongue. 
    During her shower , her mind had strayed over and over again to Daniel.  And to the possibilities of who’d betrayed them. Her partner shouldn’t be dead.
    Jake walked out the door, beer in hand.  He leaned sideways against a post.  “The sauce is cooking.”
    “I’m not terribly hungry,” she admitted.  The adrenaline rush from earlier had sapped her appetite and her energy , along with the grief she was keeping buried beneath the surface . She didn’t have time for it other than to let it fuel her determination to get answers. “Who are your suspects?”
    He grinned.  Sierra realized how little any of them re ally knew the man.  H e’d always looked so serious , but when he grinned, he looked younger and more carefree.   It was another side to the intense agent that she suspected he rarely showed others.  
    “I knew you were just biding your time.”  He took a swallow of beer and propped the bottle on the porch rail. 
    “Come on, Jake.  I deserve to at least know who you suspect.”
    He considered her plea a moment, then caved.  “Okay.  There are four people, besides the President and Vice President, who know about our organization on the outside.  Representative Lawrence Townsend, Senator Gail Cassidy, Bruce Sanders, head of the FBI and Bradley Hawkins, the head of the CIA .”
    “ The head of the armed services committees for both house and senate and the two heads from the other investigative agencies. So, you’re pretty much discou nting the other agents involved? ”
    “For the moment.   Trent has had everyone thoroughly checked and has found nothing to point to any of them.”
    “You have any gut feelings on the subject?”
    Jake looked out across yard.   “I suspect Townsend or Cassidy.  Townsend recently bought an expensive pie ce of property in the Caribbean .”
    “What about Cassidy?”
    Jake shook his head.  “Nothing yet to throw suspicion on her, but when it comes right down to it, it almost has to be one of the four .”
    “What about Hawkins or Sanders ?”
    “ Sanders has been FBI for fifteen years, he was in the Air Force before that. Not a blemish on his record.  Hawkins has been with the CIA ten years.  An impeccable record also .   It’s certainly possible one of them could have sold out…”
    “But you don’t believe it. You’d rather believe it’s one of our esteemed lawmakers.”
    He shrugged.  “I’ve been around the block enough times to know that a lot of things go on behind the scenes that aren’t always on the up and up.  Politics can be a powerful motivator and is usually driven by money.”
    She couldn’t argue with that.  “True.  So what are your plans?”
    She wondered if he noticed she’d said your and not our .  He did.
    “ My plans are to go after Diaz.”
    She ignored his emphasis on ‘my’ for now.  It wasn’t time to try to convince him, yet.  “Is Trent sanctioning this?”
    His mouth quirked. “Let’s just say, he’s not telling me not to go.”
    Sierra shook her head and smiled. “And there you have politics at its finest.”
    Jake’s eyebrow arched and his blue eyes were expectant.  He w as waiting for her to launch a campaign to let her help him. 
    But, she already knew it would be like bouncing her head on a brick wall.  He wasn’t ready to budge yet.  She c hugged the rest of her beer and stood.  “We better go check on that sauce.”
    She almost laughed at the look on his face.  Yep, always