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    “Help me brace the door,” she said, sizing up a Kallax bookcase full of his most impressive legal tomes.

    “Rey. Why do you have your bag but not your shoes?”

    “I can’t run in heels,” she said, heaving herself against the bookcase. “Help me brace the fucking door, Ben. They’re coming. For you.”

    “What?”

    Beneath his feet, he felt the sharp rumble of something that every cell in his body knew to be an IED. His blood froze. Years of training kicked in. Suddenly he was on the other side of the bookcase, pulling it out of Rey’s grip and across the door.

    “Help me flip the desks,” he said.

    ***

    When their workplace comes under attack, Rey acts on instinct -- and changes everything in Ben's life, forever.

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