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told Super Agent.
    Super Agent opened the door wider and waved Sergei in. They stood nearly eye-to-eye. While Super Agent had about thirty pounds of muscle on him, Sergei matched it in attitude. Super Agent closed the door but didn’t leave. He just stood there like a bouncer with his arms crossed.
    This was going to be fun.
    I made the introductions like we were at a cotillion or something equally civilized.
    “What are you doing here?” I asked Sergei.
    Sergei looked from me to Super Agent in his wrinkled suit and back again. It wasn’t too difficult for him to figure out what was going on here what with me still in my robe and a major case of bed-head. The flicker of hurt in his eyes didn’t surprise me, but it gave me a sharp pain in the chest all the same.
    “I have a lead on Miguel,” Sergei finally said.
    Super Agent stirred. “So give it to her and leave.”
    “That’s not the deal.”
    Damn Kostya and his damn deal!
    “What deal?” Super Agent asked.
    Sergei lifted a brow. “You don’t confide in him?”
    “We were a little busy ,” I shot back.
    A corner of Super Agent’s mouth twitched.
    Sergei got that look in his eye again. I knew it wasn’t fair of me to take my frustrations with Miguel and Kostya out on Sergei, but if we were going to do this thing I wanted to set some boundaries with him right off the bat.
    I filled Super Agent in on the bargain I’d made with Kostya. Needless to say he was less than thrilled.
    “No,” he said before I was even finished.
    Sergei settled on the sofa for a ringside seat to my argument with Super Agent. I motioned for Super Agent to join me in the kitchen.
    “What happened to all that trust you had last night?” I whispered to Super Agent.
    “I trust you, not him.”
    “I’m doing this.” I wrapped my arms around his neck and leaned in. “I can’t let anything happen to my brother. Please understand.”
    He brought me in closer, smoothing his hands up my back. “You know I’m going to have to work this too.”
    “You already are.”
    “Are you going to give me the lead he says he’s got?”
    “Depends on if it’s a good one or not.”
    “You frustrate me.”
    “You like it.”
    He touched his forehead to mine. “I like it too much. Be careful.”
    “I will.” I put a hand to his cheek. “I love you.”
    “I love you too.” And then he kissed me long and deep, going all out to prove a point to Sergei, who had clicked the TV on as soon as I put my arms around Super Agent. “I don’t trust him,” he said again when he finally let me up for air.
    “I don’t either, but I do know that he’d never hurt me.” At least not physically.
    To say Sergei’s and my relationship had been complicated was an understatement. There’d been a lot of pain that hadn’t ended when we had. I could almost feel the envelope through the wall to my bedroom. It contained the one thread I couldn’t cut that would always tie me to Sergei.
    “Miguel hasn’t used his credit cards so wherever he is, he’s using cash,” Super Agent said.
    “Thanks for the info.”
    I walked Super Agent to the door and he gave me another kiss that had me fanning myself as I closed it after him.
    “Sleeping with a cop,” Sergei said, clicking the TV off. “You can’t be that desperate.”
    Sergei and I had both honed the skill of police-spotting at an early age.
    “He’s a Special Agent with the FBI.”
    “A Fed? Kostya’s not going to be happy about this.”
    “Kostya can kiss my ass. He made this deal. If he had more conditions then he should’ve been upfront about them. Besides, who’s going to tell him?” I glared at him, daring him to snitch.
    “He’ll find out one way or another.”
    “Not my problem.”
    My cell phone rang. Alice. I really didn’t have time to hold her hand.
    “Hi, Alice.”
    “Have you found him yet?”
    “No, but I’m working on it.”
    “I really need you to find him, Maggie.”
    “I’ll do my best.”
    “No. I mean I really