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said. “I think she’s
through it now but I want to run a full assessment before I release her.”
    Frei nodded. Whether Aeron liked it or not, she would have to deal
with it.
    “How is she?” Renee asked, respect and worry warring in her eyes.
    “As can be expected.” Montgomery never gave much away.
    “Can I see her?”
    Montgomery shook her head. “Not until she’s ready to be released.
With her gifts, it’s better she have complete isolation.”
    Frei agreed. It would be better for the kid if she had space from
everyone else’s feelings.
    “She doesn’t like being alone.” Renee’s whisper was hard to hear.
She held up her finger. “Wait, how about I go and get her violin. That’ll help
her. She loves it.”
    Montgomery smiled, studying Renee like she could read every
thought. “Drop it off at the front desk and I’ll make sure she has it.”
    Renee nodded, saluted, and hurried out. Frei shook her head.
Considering the woman was in her mid-thirties, she looked like a teenager
sometimes.
    “Interesting development,” Montgomery said, turning to Frei.
    “I’d call it inconvenient.” Frei ignored the searching look.
Montgomery had tried figuring her out over the years and hadn’t come close
once. “How is she really?”
    “Now that the slashes on her face have disappeared, much better.
Although, she’s showing some things I’m concerned about.”
    Not good. “Like?”
    “The pain she took on board from Renee seems to have triggered her
own reaction to Sam.” Montgomery wandered over to the window. “Of course, she
would always need to deal with it eventually but the way she is doing so is
unhelpful.”
    “Which is?”
    “Violence.”
    Frei never gave her feelings away but she couldn’t help her
eyebrows raising. Aeron and violence? At her height and muscular build that was
a recipe for trouble. “Toward people, herself?”
    “I’m not risking anyone anywhere near her.” Montgomery seemed
disgusted at the idea. “But she’s redecorated her room.”
    Frei met Montgomery’s eyes. “Why?”
    “She has issues with being locked in.” Montgomery waved her hand.
“I understand why but her reaction is not rational.”
    “You letting her use the gym?” Frei understood that Montgomery was
worried but Aeron wasn’t an open and shut case.
    “No. She’s not leaving the room.”
    Frei took a breath. She was the head of the base. It was her call,
still, she didn’t want to stick Montgomery’s nose out of joint. She knew what
she was doing.
    “Let her. Give her the violin too. It’s how she coped in the
institution.” Frei offered a tight smile. “Aeron’s a good kid. She’s not going
to hurt anyone.”
    Montgomery eyed her for a moment, again that searching look that
most people turned away from. Frei didn’t. “You sound like you know her well.”
    A leading statement. Montgomery wanted to know what the dynamic
was. She could unravel Renee with ease but it would be an impossible task with
Frei. “Aeron Lorelei poses no threat to herself or anyone else. I have no
doubt.”
    Her words were neither an endorsement or a judgment but a simple
statement of fact. Montgomery offered a brief nod and left the room.
    Frei watched her go. She watched Renee hurry to the clinic with
Aeron’s violin. Odd how she could see Aeron for who she was. Maybe that was her
upbringing, if she could call it that. Aeron was simple and straight down the
line. If she liked someone, she liked them. If she thought something was right,
she’d do it. She was all heart and noble conscience. How was that so hard to
see for everyone around her?
    Frei’s cell phone buzzed across her desk and she answered it
without paying much attention.
    “I have a proposition for you that you will love.”
    She shut every window and perched on the edge of her chair. Her
heart pounded with a heaviness that she’d long consigned to bad memories.
“Huber, I don’t work for you anymore.”
    He laughed, the same infuriating laugh