They didn't tell Reagan. Sterling argued against it for twenty minutes in the parking garage, low and furious, and Ivy let him get through every point before she said the thing that ended the argument.

"If it's a trap, it's a trap either way, with or without permission. I'd rather walk into it with you than have you find out after."

He drove her to the address the message sent an hour later, an all-night diner three neighborhoods from her apartment, the kind of place with sticky menus and a bell over the door that didn't quite work anymore. Sterling made her wait in the car for ten minutes while...