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too and find out what you can about mirror-image twins.”
    “What the hell are those?”
    “Identical twins but everything on them is opposite - one’s left handed, the other right, one parts his hair on the left, the other on the right, one …”
    “Alright, I get it. How’s Sarah Creegan taking the news?”
    “Not good. She threw Mark out.”
    “Can’t say I blame her.”
    “She asked me to stay over, she’s worried he’ll come back while she’s asleep.”
    “Oh aye Boss, getting in there already?”
    “No I am not. I’m on the couch. Don’t be dirty, I am a professional.”
    “You’re also a hound.”
    “I’ll ignore that. Now if you could shut up for a second so I can hear myself think.”
    There was a thud on the line followed by another whimper. “Shut it,” hissed Cass.
    “Jeezo, poor old Phil.”
    “There’s nothing poor about this prick. You should see what he’s done to his missus.”
    “Listen up before he starts greetin’ again. Something weird’s going on here. Be on standby, I might need you to come down. This is your neck of the woods.”
    “I’m from Lancashire, I’m not a Manc. It’s completely different. That’s like saying you can relate to someone from Edinburgh.”
    “Alright, I apologise, but you are a northerner, you might get more response from these people than the Jock.”
    “If I’m down there it means Christian and Ross are up here unsupervised.”
    “It’s a risk I’m willing to take. I’ve got the feeling this is going to be big.”
    “Sounds great, I can’t wait.”
    “Good. Now finish up with Phil and get researching.”
    “Yes Boss.”
    Abruptly she hung up and Brodie put away his phone knowing his instructions would be carried out with ruthless efficiency. Sometimes it was easy to forget that Cass needed to do functional things like eat and sleep. When it came to work she was a machine, powering through tasks with phenomenal energy and precision. He’d discovered her himself in a pub in Glasgow three years ago. She was new to the area and they’d got talking. They’d tumbled into bed together that very night. He’d been amazed because, as well as being gorgeous, at twenty seven she’d been fourteen years younger than him. The next morning over breakfast at his place she’d said she needed a job and he needed another employee - his ex-best friend having stabbed him in the back, literally, before fleeing the city. At first he’d envisioned hiring her as a secretary, just someone to deal with phone calls and paperwork so he wouldn’t have to. It had also been a way of keeping her around because he’d really liked her and she’d made it plain that morning after one amazing night together that she wasn’t after a relationship. When an angry husband of a client who had hired Brodie to protect her turned up at the office both he and Brodie had been astonished when Cass had got him into an armlock and thrown him facedown on the desk. Turned out she was big into self defence and martial arts after being violently attacked as a teenager. She’d left her home - a small village in the north of England - and was staying with a friend in Glasgow, wanting to start her life over again following a falling-out with her family. Immediately he’d promoted her and he’d never regretted it. She was the best at what she did as well as hard as nails. However there had been a downside because Cass had very strict morals about not dating her boss so the second he’d employed her he’d become off-limits to her, to his chagrin. She referred to him as boss or bossman to maintain that barrier between them. But they were also very good friends, there wasn’t anyone Brodie trusted more. In the three years since they’d met he had to admit that his feelings for her hadn’t faded. In fact, the more he got to know her the more he fell for her but he would not risk what they had by making a pass, she was too precious to him.
    His other two employees, Christian and