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CJ pulled himself into a sitting position, which was easier said than done considering he was wearing a straight jacket. He stared out of the barred window into the darkness that seemed more dark blue than black tonight. She was out there somewhere, the one who would stop 'The Coming'. Father had told him that he had hidden the answers to stop Ames and the conclave where no one would know to look for it. He was hopeful that Max would come looking for him, if only because CJ had some of the answers that she was looking for. The only thing CJ could think of that would even attempt to stop her was Ames. Max was smart though and CJ had more faith in her, than he had in his brother's ability to stop her. Donald Lydecker was on a mission. One source of knowledge that he needed to rebuild project Manticore had been disposed of unfortunately. However, he always had a back up plan. Sandeman had kept the identities of his two sons well hidden. Ames White would be of no assistance as Lydecker well knew. It was the other son that he was interested in. From what little Lydecker could remember about that family, CJ wasn't the brightest star in the sky. He could use CJ to get Sandeman's help. Some of the South Africans had suggested that Sandeman might be eager to recreate the incredible things he had done when Manticore had been first started. Lydecker, however was better at second guessing. He knew Sandeman regretted everything about Manticore. The only way to get Sandeman's assistance was to give him no other choice. That's why they needed to get hold of CJ. Lydecker had so far managed to track CJ down to a physicactric hospital on the outskirts of Seattle. Unfortunately, CJ had escaped not long before the Transgenics had been revealed as having taken over Terminal City. Where CJ was now, was still a mystery. A mystery that Lydecker was determined to solve. "Deck." Zeak walked in waving a video cassette tape at Lydecker. "Got hold of that news footage you wanted." He shoved the tape in the nearby video machine. The television screen flickered for a moment before footage of Corban shooting Jondy played. It was impossible from the angle the footage had been shot at, to tell if both Jondy and Max had been caught by the taser shot at them. "This is the only angle the incident was shot from?" Something didn't add up in Lydecker's head. He rewound the tape and replayed it. Zeak nodded. "Every other camera at the Recreation Center opening was watching Cale. Why? Are you seeing something on that tape that I'm not." "It's not what's on the tape that has me suspicious." Lydecker stared at the screen in front of him, pausing the tape as Zane leapt down from the wall to catch his sister. "Zane is extremely protective of Jondy, so why isn't he beating down the door, looking for revenge? 'Eyes Only' ran daily if not hourly reports on Manticore when it was believed that Max was dead. The only thing that's been heard from him lately is that the Mayor had Ames White working for him to take the Transgenics down." Zeak shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe they're in shock. They could still retaliate. We should be prepare for that." Lydecker shook his head. "That could be true with 'Eyes Only', but I know my kids. They get revenge first, mourn later. I don't know how, but Max and Jondy are still alive. After seeing what changes Corban made to his gun however, I have no doubt that one or both women are seriously injured." "So we go to plan B and find Sandeman's son." Zeak had known Lydecker too many years not to know he had a back up plan. "Any leads yet?" "One." Lydecker grinned at his friend. "Turns out CJ was a nut job. He escaped one nut house, but I can't see his brother leaving him loose on the streets. He's too much of a loose cannon. It's just a matter of finding whereabouts Ames White has his brother locked away where he can't cause trouble." Max sat stretched out on the sofa while Logan did his latest 'Eyes Only' broadcast, reading a book. It hadn't escaped her, much to her amusement that this was too much like the perfect domestic picture. All it needed to make the picture ideal, was for Max to be in the kitchen cooking and that was never going to happen. Not with Logan being such a great chef. "What are you reading?" Logan kissed the top of Max's head, waiting for her to lift her legs so that he could sit on the sofa. "A book." Max teased, resting her legs on Logan's lap when he was seated. "It's one of Shakespeare's plays. He was sure ahead of his time, wasn't he?" Logan chuckled as he rubbed Max's calves through her jeans. "I don't think anyone realized that when Shakespeare wrote the plays. What made you decide to read," he glanced at the title on the cover. "'A mid summers nights dream' anyway?" Max shot Logan a saucy grin. "It was the only book on the bookshelf I hadn't read. So are you all finished saving the world for the night' "Yeah." Logan continued massaging Max's demin clad legs. "I've been meaning to ask you, do you really think Lydecker believes that you and Jondy are dead?" He felt Max instantly tense up underneath his hands. "No." Max put her book down on the coffee table. "I think the best we can hope for is that Lydecker thinks we've both been seriously injured. Unfortunately, Lydecker knows us well enough to know that if anything happened to Jondy and I that you, Zane and probably Alec would blow up that building he's working out of. With him in it." "Yeah, that's what bothers me." Logan pulled Max gently onto his lap. "So if he's not tracking Jondy, which at the moment seems to be what's happening. Then what's he planning?" "You're asking me to second guess Lydecker." Max frowned. "I'm not sure I want to play in his head space. Anyway if Deck has a back up plan, why did he waste so much time going after Jondy?" "Because he had you and me to use as bait." Logan had put a lot of thought into this. After all, it was his family that was at risk. "The only other person I can think of that could be of any use to Lydecker and his project would be Sandeman. The only person he could use to lure Sandeman back into that line of work is Ames White and son or no son, I can't quite see that doing the trick." "You think too much." Max ran her tongue along Logan's collar bone. "I thought that you had finished work for the night.' As she nibbled her way up Logan's neck it occurred to her who Lydecker would use to get to Sandeman. "CJ." "Excuse me?" Logan was slightly stunned by his fiancé's sudden change of mood from seductive to serious. "Who's CJ?' It was a bit of a passion killer to have your fiancé call out someone else's name while she was nibbling on your neck. "Sandeman's other son." Max sat back slightly so that she could look at Logan's face. "Remember when the runes first turned up? CJ showed up at Terminal City looking for a place to stay claiming he was Transgenic." "No, I don't remember meeting CJ." Logan was getting completely confused. "So where is CJ now? And can he be trusted?" Sandeman had disappeared a while back and Logan was still searching for him. Having Ames White as a brother wasn't really a good argument for trusting him. "White got hold of him. I'm not even sure that he's still alive." Max admitted. "CJ was one of the unlucky ones that didn't pass or couldn't pass the conclave snake ritual thing. Apparently that was the reason Sandeman ran from the conclave, because he knew CJ wasn't one of the chosen ones." "How'd he get separated from his father?" Logan would turn heaven and earth upside down if a child of his were in danger. He couldn't imagine any decent father not doing the same. "Not sure." Max shrugged her shoulders. "CJ was sort of wacky. He carried a snake around with him. Still he did help me get away from White." She felt sort of bad leaving CJ behind in White's hands. "Surely not even White would kill his own brother." Logan wondered just how much Lydecker knew about Sandeman. "Either way, if Lydecker knows that CJ exists, that's who he'll be going after until he can find out for sure if you and Jondy are still alive." "I'm not so sure Lydecker's worried about the status of my health. It's Jondy he wants." This was not Max's idea of a romantic night at home. "Don't be so sure." Logan had been worried about Lydecker's three step plan to get to Jondy, using him as step one and Max as step two. "Could be more to you and Jondy being twins than just sharing the same mother. "I doubt it." Max decided it was time to change the subject. "So when are we going to have Rebecka over for dinner so that we can show our new apartment off? I figure it will take her mind off of seeing Jondy and I getting shot off of a wall on the news." Logan knew that Max was trying to change the subject, so decided to leave tracking CJ down until tomorrow when Max was at work. "How about Friday? I take it Jondy told her that her injuries were just a scratch." Max nodded and rolled her eyes. "Pretty much. You know Jondy doesn't like to make a lot of fuss and Rebecka does nothing but fuss. I think it's only because she feels guilty that she couldn't get us away from Manticore when we were born. It's just the harder she pushes for Jondy to accept her, the less likely it is that she will." "How do you feel about that?" Logan always harbored the fear that Max would feel left out by her mother's clingy behavior in regard in Jondy. As independent as Max was, she still wanted to be a normal girl whose mother loved her. Max looked into Logan's sky blue eyes seeing all the love she could ever want or need. "I understand where Jondy's coming from and she's even said that she feels it's unfair that she gets so much of Rebecka's attention when I'm the one who wanted to find Rebecka in the first place. It's a bit hard to get jealous of your sister when she's Jondy, who's never wanted to be the center of attention in her whole life." Logan loved the way Max turned her disappointment in her mother's behavior towards her, into understanding of her sister's unwanted ability to draw attention. "Well, you've got all of my attention. At least you did until you yelled out somebody else's name." He joked. Max shot Logan a sexy smile. "Sorry about that. Let's see if I can make it up to you." She took up where she had previously left off, nibbling on Logan's neck. In the early hours of the next morning Logan woke to find Max gone. Her side of the bed was still warm, so she had only just left. Instinctively, Logan knew that she was sitting on top of the space needle. It had gotten to the point where Logan couldn't sleep when Max wasn't in their bed beside him. Since she would never need as much sleep as a normal woman, Logan had taken to working on 'Eyes Only' projects until she returned to their apartment. Starting up his computer, Logan began his search for CJ. He knew before he even started the search that it was not going to be easy. For some reason Ames White had not wanted his brother running around loose and Logan doubted it was out of love for CJ. In fact he would swear on a stack of bibles it wasn't a case of being a protective brother and more like it being a case of CJ knowing too much for his own good. When Max returned a couple of hours later, she found Logan still hard at work on the computer. "So have you found CJ yet?" It hadn't taken her long to guess what Logan was up to. "Sort of." Logan brought a picture up on one of his monitors. "Is this CJ?" It hadn't been easy, but Logan had been doing this short of thing for too long not to know how to find the back doors and hidden pathways to what he was looking for. "Yeah." Max nodded impressed. "Where is he?" As crazy as CJ was, there was no way she was going to let Lydecker use him as bait. "That's where the sort of part comes in." Logan tapped a couple more keys to start a search before turning to Max. "I found the psychiatric hospital he escaped from. No doubt Lydecker's found it as well. Since there's no record of CJ's death and knowing Ames White as we do, I'm going to assume that CJ is alive and White has hidden him in another hospital." Max sat on the edge of Logan's desk. "Well, we could just go down to the jail and ask White where his brother is, but I don't think he's going to tell us. Gotta figure he'd want his brother close by in case Daddy turned up to try and stop 'The Coming' and he needed someone for bait." "That's what I was thinking." Logan took off his glasses and rubbed his tired eyes. "He could even still be at the same hospital that he escaped from, just under a different name." Max nodded towards the screen where the computer was still searching. "Why don't you go and get some sleep. I can watch this." Logan looked exhausted. She wasn't sure why he wasn't still in bed asleep anyway. The search for CJ could have waited until the morning. "I sort of have a problem." Logan couldn't help but smirk at Max. "I think your sister may have been right when she said I was addicted to you. I can't sleep when you're not in the bed beside me. I usually wake up not long after you go to the space needle every night." He frowned when the search turned up nothing. "What am I missing?" "A lot of sleep." Max took hold of his hand and pulled him out of his chair. "Come on. You'll be able to figure this latest puzzle out better if you're not falling asleep on the keyboard." She shut down the computer and gently dragged Logan back into the bedroom. "When did my sister tell you that you were addicted to me?" "When you were staying at Terminal City, she phoned up to ask about someone and wanted to know why I sounded so tired." Logan sat down on their bed and took off his glasses, placing them on the bedside cabinet. "It's no good lying to Jondy. She sees through me even if I'm on the phone." Max striped off her clothes and climbed into bed beside Logan, cuddling up to him. "At least I don't give you a headache like being addicted to alcohol and drugs does." Logan chuckled as he kissed Max goodnight. "Yeah, that's what your sister said." His head barely touched the pillow before he fell asleep. Lydecker stared at the list before him. Each name on the list represented a contact he had used. It was a long list and each contact had come up blank. Part of him wondered if CJ had been expertly hidden out of sight. Another part of him wondered if his contacts no longer trusted him after he had assisted his kids in blowing up the Manticore DNA lab. "I gather you came up empty handed, Deck." Zeak stood in the office doorway. "Manticore did a pretty good job of turning your name to mud after the DNA lab incident." "So I'm finding out." Lydecker stared into space, his mind twisting the problem at hand over and over in his head. "There's one more person I can try, but I doubt he will be of any assistance." "Failing that, you said yourself the two X5 women may still be alive." Zeak pointed out. "Their brother could have been lying. Even if he did sound distressed on the phone, that could just have been because the women had been injured." "It's not them being alive that's the problem." Lydecker turned his stare to his South African friend. "It's finding them that's the problem, especially where Jondy is concerned." Zeak frowned. "Why is that? I mean she was supposed to be a distraction so how is it that she can hide right under your nose?" Lydecker smiled to himself. "Jondy has always been a living, breathing paradox. As I've told you before, she wasn't supposed to live, yet she's alive. She wasn't supposed to be able to give birth to children, yet she gave birth to twins whom were conceived naturally. So why does it surprise you that someone who is supposed to stand out like a sore thumb, can disappear in front of your face?" "Who's your last option in finding Sandeman's son?" Zeak knew better than to argue with Donald Lydecker. "Sandeman's other son, Ames White." Lydecker grabbed his jacket. "He's being held in the local jail. As I said before, I doubt he'll be of any assistance, but maybe we can get him to tip his hand without him realizing what he's doing." Zeak watched Lydecker go. "Good luck." Ames White sat in his cell meditating. He had nothing better to do at that moment. Even though the conclave had turned their backs on him, he was safe in the knowledge that neither the humans nor the transgenics knew what 'The Coming' was or how to stop it. His father may have encoded the answers in 452's DNA, but she still had no idea that she was the one to save those idiots. The only person that could and would give them any sort of clue was in a straight jacket and sedated in a psychiatric facility. "Hey White, you have a visitor." The guard yelled through the bars. "Rise and shine." Nobody knew what the hell White was, but they strongly suspected that he was one of those human looking transgenics. A few months back he had killed a guard and tried to jump over the fence before one of the other guards shot him with a taser gun. Rumors had been circulated that he was responsible for the death of the blind girl in the sewers and not the dog man. Having seen White snap the neck of one of their own, the guard didn't find that hard to believe. "Who would want to visit me?" Ames didn't bother to open his eyes. There was nobody he wanted to see anyway. "I do." Lydecker stood on the other side of the bars. "What? No warm welcome. I would have expected at least a hello, especially after you had your people run my SUV off of the road a while back." When White still sat in his cell with his eyes closed, Lydecker knew exactly which button to push. "I guess you haven't been watching the news. Jondy's dead." Ames opened his eyes and glared at Lydecker. "You're lying. She's too smart for you to be able to get the upper hand on her." Lydecker kept his face expressionless. "One of my men went against orders and fired a tampered taser at her." He shrugged his shoulders. "Don't believe me by all means. I can get you a copy of the news tape and you can see it for yourself if you want." He watched White as the information settled in. "How's your brother taking the news of your incasuration by the way?" Ames shrugged his shoulders still not believing what Lydecker had just told him. "I wouldn't know. It's been a while since I've seen him. He doesn't visit much." "I take it, he lives some distance away." Lydecker felt as though he was playing twenty questions. "No, he just doesn't visit much." Ames wondered what Lydecker wanted with his brother. "If you have questions to ask, why don't you ask Sandeman?" Lydecker chuckled. "Well, your father appears to have abandoned both of his sons and disappeared. As far as I know, not even the great 'Eyes Only' can locate him. Considering he's the one who got him over the border into Canada in the first place, I think that's pretty damn funny." "Yeah, well laugh your head off by all means." Ames shot Lydecker a cold hard look. "However, I have no idea where my father or my brother are." he saw the guard approaching. "Looks like your time's up. Don't let the door hit you on the way out." He closed his eyes and went back to meditating. Lydecker waited until he got back into his car before pulling out his cell phone and dialing Zeak's direct line. "Zeak. Make sure that White gets a copy of that news tape will you." "You get anything useful out of White?" Zeak was already pulling a copy of the tape out of one of his desk drawers. "Yeah. His brother's somewhere close." Lydecker was already making a list of possible places that White would hide his brother, in his head. "I'm pretty sure he doesn't know where Sandeman is though. I'll be back in the office in twenty minutes." He switched off the phone and shoved it in his pocket. "Now if I wanted to hide my brother, where would I put him?" Lydecker muttered to himself before he started his car and headed for his office. Logan rotated his shoulders which had started to stiffen up from working on the computer all day. When his phone rang, he was actually grateful for the break. Recognizing the caller ID he grinned as he answered the phone. "Hey Matt. What's up?" "Hi Logan." The police detective answered. "I got news from the jail a few minutes ago. It seems Ames White had a visitor today. Donald Lydecker." "What did he want with White?" Logan already knew the answer to that. What he really wanted to know was if white gave Lydecker the information that he had gone looking for. "One of the guards was listening into the conversation." Matt began. "He was asking about White's brother. I don't think he got the answer he was hoping for. All White would say was that his brother didn't visit much, but that he didn't live a distance away. Lydecker also said something about Jondy being dead." That was the part that confused Matt. "I wouldn't mention it, but not long after Lydecker left, a tape of Jessica being shot off of the wall at the Recreation Center opening arrived. White's been climbing the walls ever since he saw it." "Jessica's fine Matt." Logan started quickly tapping on his keyboard. "I wouldn't tell White that though. We don't want any chance of White stalking Jess if he finds a way out." "Hey Logan, I understand that, but who's Jondy?" Matt had become quite fond of the redhead and was relieved to hear that she was alright. "Jondy is Jessica." Logan carefully explained. "The less people that know that she's alive the safer she will be." "You know your word's good enough for me Logan." Matt could see Clemente heading his way. "I'll call you if I find anything else out." "Thanks Matt." Logan hung up his phone. Bringing up the records of the psychiatric hospital that CJ had previously escaped from, Logan glanced at the names hoping against hope that something would leap out at him. "Where are you CJ?" What he needed at that moment was Max. She could probably pick up with one glance what he was looking for. Almost as though he had conjured her up with his thoughts, Logan sensed then saw Max. Judging by the light coat of sawdust that covered Max's coat and clothes, she had obviously spent some time at Terminal City after leaving work. "Hey. Have you found CJ yet?" She kissed Logan on the cheek, not wishing to get sawdust on him. Logan shook his head. "Not yet, but I think he's at the same place that he escaped from originally. Lydecker went to visit White today to ask where CJ was. I doubt he came right out and told Deck where his brother was. But Lydecker's got some sort of idea of CJ's location, otherwise he would never have just walked away from White." Max leaned slightly closer. "In other words we have to find CJ fast." Running her eyes over the names on the screen, something caught her eye. "Can you bring up a list of the in house employees. There's probably a few that live on the premises." Logan tapped a couple of keys to bring up the information that Max had asked for. "Here's a possibly. Sandy Man works in the kitchen." "Yeah and lives in the same quarters as the inmates. Something tells me there's no photo ID on file either." Max watched Logan try on the off chance there was a photo. "No, no photo." Logan checked his watch. It would be dark soon. "Do you want to try and get CJ out tonight? I mean, we can't be sure that this is CJ." He didn't want to put Max in dangers way if he couldn't be sure of what they were heading up against. "I'll just take a shower and change." Max knew Lydecker wouldn't take long to figure out White's riddle to his brother's location. "Can you find out what sort of security I'm up against and the quickest route to where CJ is." "I'm on it." Logan started frantically tapping away at the keyboard. A short time later he stared at the screen before him. After CJ had escaped, Logan would have thought that White would had placed him under heavy security. The only security seemed to be one guard that did a routine patrol. "Another of White's riddles." Logan muttered to himself. "Who knew White was the riddler." Max quipped as she towel dried her hair which now reached her shoulders. "Ok hit me with the riddle and let's see if we can figure it out." Logan turned to face Max. "Why would White have his brother locked up in a place that he had already escaped from with next to no security? Unless ...." An idea popped into Logan's head. Bringing up the medical records on the screen, he found the answer. Max rolled her eyes. "Great. He's doped up to the eyeballs. If I have to carry CJ out of there, it increases my chances of being caught." 'You want to call Alec in as backup?" Logan wasn't happy about Max going in alone, especially if Lydecker was hot on CJ's trail as well. "Not really." Max shot Logan a disgusted look. Despite the fact that Logan's hair had grown back, she was still pissed at Alec. Logan rolled his eyes. "Max, my hair has grown back. Don't you think it's time you stopped being pissed at Alec about something he did to save my neck. Besides, he's seeing your sister. It's not as though you can avoid him forever, especially when he's living in this building." "My sister's never had very good taste in men." Max could see that Logan was going to be stubborn about this. "Fine. I'll call him and see if he's got plans tonight." "Thank you." Logan got a little comfort from Max's agreement. "The quickest and easiest way in, will be over the fence and in the back door. Keep an eye out for White's conclave buddies. It wouldn't surprise me if one or two of them were hanging around close by." CJ stared glassy eyed out of his cell window. Fighting the strong effects of the sedative, he saw what looked like a military unit heading towards the place that had become his prison. He knew whomever this unitl of people were, they had come for him. "Need Max to come and get me, not these people. Only Max can stop 'The Coming'." His mutterings fell on deaf ears as he was alone in his cell. Movement in the grounds alerted CJ to the presence of someone other than the normal guards and the military unit coming for him. All CJ could do was sit and wait to see who got to him first. "We've got more company than we planned on." Alec sat in the bushes by the fence beside Max. "Considering you're supposed to be dead and I don't think Lydecker believes in ghosts, what do you suggest we do?" "Go in and get CJ and stay out of sight." Max cautiously made her way towards the rear entrance. "I don't get his. Even with the conclave turning their back on White, I still would have thought they'd be watching CJ like a hawk." Alec motioned towards the front of the building that they could only just see from the angle they were approaching the rear of the building from. "It looks as though they have their hands full keeping Lydecker out." Sure enough, a team of men appeared at an inhuman speed to block the entrance that Lydecker's men were attempting to use. The only person standing in Max and Alec's way was one guard who was watching the scene before him in stunned amazement. Alec quickly knocked the guard unconscious and put his uniform on while Max tied him up. "How long do you think we have before Lydecker storms the place?" Alec glanced at a security monitor that had been focused on the front gate. "Well, first Lydecker will try and convince those freaks out there that they want the same thing and they should help each other." Max gave Alec a sarcastic smile. "And when that doesn't work, he'll start shooting." "So in other words, we have about five minutes before this place starts resembling a scene out of a Terminator movie." Alec quipped as he followed Max towards where Logan had told them CJ was being held. Max started work on the lock when they got to CJ's cell, while Alec kept watch. Any doubts that they might have the wrong room were shoved aside when they saw CJ sitting on the floor strapped up in a straight jacket. "I knew you would come for me Max." CJ beamed at Max, who had started undoing the buckles on his straight jacket. "Well CJ, you're a hard man to find." Max began to worry about getting CJ out of that dump. The man was so drugged he could barely stand. "You know, I think you should complain to your brother about the state of this place. He could have at least put you up in a place with a bit more class." "Time to go kids." Alec raced into the room and tossed CJ over his shoulder in a fireman's hold. "Lydecker's guys just started shooting." Logan made his way through the pitch blackness to the vehicles that Lydecker and his men had arrived in. He had never thought of himself as a hero, Logan just saw a wrong and felt the need to make it right. Starting at the rear, Logan slammed the crowbar from his van across the shoulders of the nearest man knocking him out. His movements going unnoticed with the cover of gunfire. Moving the man out of the way, he loaded the man's weapons into the jeep. Using his own gun he shot out the tires of the vehicles to the side and in front of the jeep. Slamming the jeep into reverse Logan headed for the rear of the building where he had left his van. Lydecker took four of his men into the building while the rest of his men gave them cover. Following the plans of the building that he had downloaded earlier, he located the room he suspected CJ would be in only to find it empty with the door open. "Somebody got here ahead of us. They can't of gone far. Find them." He bellowed the orders even though he was sure that they were already too late. "'Eyes Only' strikes again." Lydecker knew only Logan could have located CJ this fast without help from White or the conclave. "Those boys are sure gonna be pissed that somebody let their cat out of the bag." He muttered to himself before heading back out of the building and ordering his men to pull back. "Sir, we have a problem." One of his men approached him. "One of the vehicles has been stolen along with some weapons and the tires of the rear six vehicles have been shot out." "So change the tires." Lydecker barked. He wasn't sure who Logan had been working with, but tonight's failed operation screamed that his kids were somehow involved. Sandeman was still out there somewhere and one way or another Lydecker would get him to help rebuild Manticore. Alec, Max, CJ and Logan stood in the darkness watching Lydecker take out his frustrations on his men. "Is there enough room at Terminal City for CJ until we can locate Sandeman?" Logan tossed Alec the keys to the jeep. "Actually, you'd better drop the jeep and the weapons off to Mole to make sure there is." "No problem." Alec helped CJ into the jeep and belted him in. "Come on CJ, let's get you to the Terminal City Detox." "Hey Alec." Max felt Logan take her hand. "Thanks for your help tonight." When Logan squeezed her hand, she knew that she had done the right thing asking for Alec's help. Alec nodded that he accepted her thanks and resisted making any smart ass remarks. "Catch ya later." He drove off before Max could regret thanking him. "Well, that wasn't the quiet night at home that I envisioned having when I left work." Max quipped as Logan drove them home. "I suppose you are going to be up all night trying to locate Sandeman." Logan shot Max a toothy smile. "That wasn't my plan. I was going to cook my beautiful fiancé a fabulous dinner and then see if I could convince her to have an early night." "You were huh." Max could see the mischief sparkling in Logan's beautiful blue eyes. "You're going to save the search for Sandeman until I'm at work tomorrow, aren't you?" "That's the plan." Logan chuckled as he and Max headed home. Finding Sandeman was a problem for another day.
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