“A half hour?” she asked. “And this contact of yours is another PARA agent? You’re absolutely sure about that?” “Yes, of course I’m sure.” Xavier pursed his lips as he studied her. “Confidentialities aside, perhaps you might all wish to work together in the future.” While this ruse was good enough to get Xavier to open up to them, the last thing Emma needed was for someone untrustworthy to think she was supplying black market enchanted objects to the highest bidder alongside Ryan Shephard, a man who’d already been falsely accused doing just that. She knew he was innocent, but nobody else did. “Xavier.” She curled her fingers around his arm and forced a flirtatious smile to her face. “It’s very important that you say nothing about the fact we were here. While the saying goes that there is honor among thieves, that’s not really true. Your regular supplier would likely feel that we were trying to infringe on their territory and they’d try to get us fired.”
