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. Because I don t want to run.Thiago will have us run, but I want to fightthem, Shawn, he hissed, his eyes flashing and his accent thick and rich. I want totake them on and take them down, Remy growled as his eyes unfocused and heclenched his fist in the bedcovers.Shawn s heart fluttered slightly and he sucked in a breath of air.Take on theOrganization? Just the seven of them, and whoever else Thiago had up his sleeve? Itwas suicidal.It couldn t be done. You re right, he breathed as he leaned unconsciously away from theyounger man and propped against the headboard once more. I think you ve fuckingcracked. XLI.NIKOLAUS was more nervous now than he ever had been before.If Remy haddiscovered he d been the one to create the Purge virus just by process of elimination,what else did Remy know? Did he know what Nikolaus had been doing this wholetime? Surely not.Surely, he would have called Nikolaus out the moment he foundout.Nikolaus took care of what Thiago sent him out to do as quickly as possible;buying the basic travel supplies they d need for what was essentially a six-day trainride.After taking care of that with his usual efficiency, he practically ran to the Cafédu Monde to give him enough time to fill his contact from the BND in on what washappening. The Archer 469Abigail RouxThere were advantages to being seen as the weak link in a crew.You weren tsubject to the normal suspicions, and you were given leeway where others weren t.Nikolaus had used this to his full advantage so far.He felt certain that Thiago wouldnot have let any of the others do this on their own, no matter how much he trustedthem.Nikolaus skidded to a halt in front of Jackson Square and shook his head sadly.He stared across the street into the outdoor eating area of the café until he caught sightof the man he was looking for.The BND, or Bundesnachrichtendienst, was a German foreign intelligenceagency.Much like the CIA or MI6, its job was to protect German interests fromthreats overseas.Before Nikolaus had been recruited by the Organization, he dworked in the Technische Unterstützung, the technical support section of the BND.He still did.Nikolaus stood and watched the other man from the cover of the crowdedpavement.He spotted four others in and around the café, and he smiled ruefully tohimself.Yes, he was a computer nerd.Yes, he was smaller in stature than the others.But that was the essence of his cover; seemingly weak and unsuspecting,inexperienced and naïve.That was how he appeared.Highly trained and with aspecific mission from the BND; that was what he was.He knew that Gray suspectedhim, but the others had never done.Now, even if they believed what Gray had to say,it was too late for them to counter his actions.Wasn t it?Nikolaus sighed heavily.He hadn t expected to grow so fond of hiscompanions.He didn t want them to be hurt.Was there another way around this? Hiscontact wasn t an O.R.G.man, and therefore Nikolaus had a little leeway.He shifteduneasily and took a deep breath to steady himself.The Organization wasn t helmed by idiots, and they were well aware of farmore than even Nikolaus knew.Sometimes, Nikolaus wondered if they had known allalong that Thiago was the Archer.If they had known, then they were playing a stupid,dangerous game.Thiago struck Nikolaus as being slightly flustered right now, andmaybe even a little lacking in organizational skills, but he was a dangerous man,nonetheless.Regardless of whether or not they knew Thiago s specific identity, theOrganization certainly knew there was a threat, and they knew this group of six orseven posed the greatest threat of them all.They knew because they d engineered it that way.From what Nikolaus had been told before the start of the mission, Thiagoand Brandt were both known to have turned, and though there had never been enoughevidence gathered to say for certain, Remy was suspected as well.Shawn was undersuspicion simply because of his relationship with Remy and his constant insistencethat Remy was clean, though it was now clear to Nikolaus that Shawn should neverhave been here.The man was loyal, and Nikolaus thought that if they got into trouble,Shawn s loyalty would sway back to the Organization.Love versus twenty years of service was a tough call, but Shawn liked order.Loving Remy was anything but ordered. 470 The ArcherAbigail RouxNikolaus had been placed with the group by a joint O.R.G./MI6/BNDdecision, and his sole purpose was to observe the others and report back.His reportswould be the deciding factor on when punishments started raining down.So far, he dbeen able to report that the Six were simply attempting to figure out who or what wastrying to kill them, and they d been left to their own devices.What he was hearingnow was rebellion and subversion and taking down the Organization.That couldn thappen, and though Nikolaus was painfully aware of the hopelessness of theirsituation, he couldn t allow six desperate men to destroy the entire Organization.It never crossed Nikolaus s mind that they couldn t do it.Nikolaus frowned as he realized that his thoughts were rambling, and hecrossed the street with a heavy heart.This was it
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