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seeing him as a shadow, I knew I might not get him back.
    He sits, and I wrap my arms around him hoping that I’ll somehow be able to help.
    I can see the wide-eyed shock on both of their faces when Landon shields us, and they can’t see us anymore.
    “Well that’s just cool,” Ocean yells as we pull even further away. “Not even a dent in the water. Absolutely brilliant Landon! Well done!”
    My body releases the tension I’ve been holding on to for the past day as tears stream down my face, and I clutch Landon against me more tightly.

FIVE
    Kara
     
    “This is just great.” I turn our small boat back toward shore. “It’s going to take us forever to get back.”
    I’m sure I sound like a petulant child, but I’m also sure I don’t care.
    “This i s what watches are for Kara.” Ocean slides his open and asks if someone can bring out the speedboat and a few changes of clothes for each of us.
    “Now you like our technology.” I glare.
    “I never said I didn’t. I just said that this was the best route this time.” He shrugs.
    “Oh. I see.” Only I don’t see. Not really. We didn’t get them. And after watching Landon sprawl onto their deck, I’m guessing he was able to cross over into shadow people territory. This is not good.
    “It’s not always about getting the end result as fast as possible. If we want them in The Middle Men, we can’t just go grabbing them.” He’s sitting comfortably on the canvas stretched between the pontoons, his forearms resting on his knees.
    “It’s worked before.” I widen my eyes knowing he can’t contradict me. I’m also not ready to tell him we have some serious time constraints.
    “Fine.” He shifts his weight as he adjusts his hold on the rudder. “But we maybe gave them something to think about, you know? We didn’t come after them. We didn’t show up in two thousand dollar suits to have a little “informal chat.” We just said we wanted to talk and then you warned them about shadows. I don’t know. I don’t think that went all that bad.”
    He’s totally missing the point. “You’re totally missing the point.”
    “Kara.” He rests a hand on my shoulder, and as the energy of him pulses through me. I find myself staring at his lips before jerking away.
    “Sorry.” He shakes his head. “I think Landon’s really helping Micah’s Insight. She’d seen us. So I think we need to make decisions that are very non-confrontational so that maybe she’ll see a vision of us that won’t make them run. She can only see what’s decided, or things that are out of all of our control. So. Let’s decide to go into this as passive as possible, and see where that takes us. Cool?”
    “Now you’re sounding like hippie parents.” Only it does make sense, and I’m angry with myself for not thinking of all of these possibilities. I’ve just never gone after someone who didn’t want to be caught before. Not without being second to a supervisor anyway.
    “There’s our boat out there.” His stupid smug smile is back as he points to the sleek boat speeding our way. “Perfect timing.”
     
    We’re not supposed to be going back to port. In a Middle Men boat we’d catch up to, or pass Landon’s boat in a second.
    “They don’t understand,” I argue. “We’re ready to leave now.”
    “Sorry.” Samson shrugs. “Orders are to bring you two back instead of letting you go on.”
    “Gah!” I throw my bag down in the bottom of the boat. “Fine, but let’s make it quick.”
    Ocean gives me an apologetic frown as he takes one of the back seats next to me.
    I slide open my watch to see if I have any new messages but nothing’s there.
    “Hey.” Ocean runs his fingertips against mine. “We’ll still find them. We did it once, we’ll do it again.”
    My breathing stops, my heart’s already racing, and thinking about his fingertips sliding up my arms across my shoulders over my collarbone sends shivers through me. “Stop that.” I jerk my hand