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need to get anything remotely incriminating or telling hidden and out of the way.”
    Amy shot me a look that plainly said she thought I was crazy. I got that look a lot, from just about anybody and everybody these days. “Kitty, you’re acting like we’re running a meth lab or something. This senator knows about . . . everyone, right?”
    “Right.” He did. Armstrong was one of the people who had a very high security clearance, which included getting to know about the Alpha Centaurions who lived on Earth. But he wasn’t our friend in any way, shape, or form, and I didn’t want him finding some hidden weakness. “But still . . .”
    My phone chose this moment to ring. I checked. Not the senator, but indeed another number I’d become familiar with. “Hi, Malcolm, what’s up?”
    Malcolm Buchanan had been thankfully assigned by my mother to be my permanent watchdog. He’d saved my and Jamie’s lives at the end of Operation Assassination. And now, whither I went, so Buchanan went, too. While we were down here he was housed in the servants’ quarters.
    “You have company coming.”
    “Yes, we know. Not thrilled about Senator Armstrong’s arrival, but there’s nothing I can do about it.”
    “Well, get ready,” Buchanan said. “Because there’s a lot more than one person in the limo that’s just pulling up at your front door.”

CHAPTER 2
     
    “W E HAVE MORE THAN ONE COMING IN,” I shared as I slammed my phone closed. “How are we going to handle this?”
    “I’m getting the door,” Kyle said. He nodded to Len. “You’re backing me?”
    “Of course.”
    Len and Kyle had been on the USC football team when we’d met in Vegas right before my wedding. Len had been the quarterback and Kyle had been on the line. They’d both given up promising pro careers to work with the C.I.A.’s ET division. Therefore, in addition to being big, athletic guys, they both packed heat. Ostensibly Len was my driver and Kyle was my bodyguard, but neither was a fan of anyone who tried to kill me, in part because those people also tried to kill the boys at the same time.
    I contemplated allowing them to open the door with an impressive show of force. Unfortunately, I had a pretty good idea that such a cheerful greeting probably wasn’t included in the Diplomat’s Handbook.
    Jamie gurgled. She hadn’t seemed like she was in pain for the past couple of days, I felt outnumbered and unprepared, and I missed my husband more than I would have thought possible. I opened my phone again and dialed.
    “Hey, baby, I was just thinking about you. How’re my girls doing?” Jeff had to ask because he had to have such strong blocks up in his mind to protect him from our emotions. I really hoped it was time to take those blocks down.
    “I think Jamie’s fine. I’m stressed out of my mind. Jeff, are you in the middle of anything you can’t get away from?”
    “We’re just doing some Homeland Security paperwork with Reynolds.”
    “Great. Can you all get down here, right away? We’re about to have an impromptu visit from Senator Armstrong, and I don’t trust his motives at all.”
    “Neither do I. We’ll be there right away. You want Reynolds along?”
    “Please. I have no idea who else is coming, but Malcolm said he saw more than one person when he called to warn me.”
    Jeff grunted. “He’s not in the house is he?”
    “Spend needless jealousy on Malcolm when you’re here, okay?” I lowered my voice. “I miss you. Use the fast hyperspeed.”
    “Love you, baby. Be right there.”
    We hung up, I kissed Jamie’s head and handed her to Amy, then headed after the boys. Martini Manor was so huge it was easy to catch u Fontustp to them before they reached the main entryway. And just in time—I got to them as the front doorbell rang.
    “Boys, let’s remember that while we don’t like the senator, we aren’t allowed to act like we’re Al Pacino in
Scarface
.”
    Both boys shot me betrayed looks. Their