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Viktor started swearing and stood so fast, the chair he’d been sitting in fell over. “What the fuck? You promised me you weren’t doing that shit anymore.”

Conner just stared at him, unblinking.

Mason didn’t want the fight, and he didn’t have time for it.

“We’ll deal with Conner’s shit later. Right now, we have to find Jo.”

Viktor turned away, and Conner didn’t say a word. The two of them would have it out later, and it wouldn’t fucking matter. Conner was working for the military again. He’d go back to that dark place, and they’d lose him.

But he’d worry about that after he found his girl.

“I’m in!” Nikoli came flying back in. “Barney told me he’d smuggle the phone out for me. They’ve already done everything they’re going to with it, so it shouldn’t matter.”

“Then what the fuck are you waiting for?” Conner barked. “Go get it.”

“I need my laptop, the one I built.”

“I’ll get it,” Kade offered, coming back in. “I left a message for Lang, but I don’t know if he’ll take my call.”

“I thought KSI was tight with the NYPD?” Mason didn’t like any of this. Without the police on their side, they didn’t stand a chance of finding her.

“We are with a lot of departments, but it seems white collar has shut us out of everything, and some of the people we know are afraid of pissing them off. They have clout with the brass.”

“And KSI doesn’t?”

“Fuck, yeah, we do. I have a lunch scheduled with the police commissioner in about an hour. I’m damn sick of being shut out because one asshole has a hard-on for nailing Mason for a fucking crime he didn’t commit.”

“The fuck you talking about?” Conner snarled.

Viktor filled him in on the frat business while Kade and Nik left to go collect a phone and laptop.

“I leave for two fucking weeks, and you wind up arrested for embezzlement?” Conner ground out when Viktor had finished.

“No, I wasn’t arrested. Held for questioning after I agreed to come in and help the fuckers out.”

“I’ll take care of that shit. You know who did it?”

“I’m pretty sure it was the fuckers I got arrested for assaulting Jo’s best friend on frat property.”

Viktor and Conner both swiveled their heads to look at him, and for once, they really were identical twins. It was the expressions they wore. Fury tinged with the promise of pain.

“I’ll get it sorted.” Conner nodded. “I’ll be back by dark,brat. Try to stay out of jail until then.”

Viktor watched him go, his eyes shifting to worried.

“I don’t like it, Mason. If he’s back in, then he’s killing again. And every life he takes, it takes him farther from us.”

“I know.”

“We can’t let him go there again.”

“I know.”

“We’ll find her.”

“I know.”

God, he hoped so.

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