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Dauy As a decoy, she’d fully expected to get swatted or be eroped and have sex with people she didn’t know, but she’d never conceived of wanting soeous, yet she’d never found all that chiseled handsome stuff so hot before But Mr Stuffy Lawyer so at her
Maybe due to her lack of recent activity After Andrew, she’d lost interest in dating, since when she’d broken up with hiain picked a man her parents would approve of You’d think she’d learn That kind ofmore and more critical She never lived up to their expectations--never lived up to her parents’ expectations either She’d never be perfect
Marcus is…and dammit, I don’t like perfect people Well, it didn’t ht or so of her insolence, Marcus would hate the sight of her
That just made her feel evenarea, the peacocks screa her to reality A bad reality Gru her sneakers on the dirt path In a nearby pen, a panther chirped, the sound an octave lower than her cats" voices
Her poor kitties When she’d moved into the cheap apartment the FBI had obtained for her, her two boys had sulked, displeased at leaving all their well-marked furniture behind She understood totally This job ly enclosure under all sorts of rules, with soht of visiting here this , to sympathize with the other trapped beasties
She shared another bond with the big cats here They knew all about hunting
Despite the scorching sun, Gabi shivered I’m prey Hopefully the kidnapper had taken the bait and was stalking Gabi right now If not, or if he didn’t try for the other decoys, the investigation would stall until he made a move--undoubtedly in some other city Part of her wanted to be his chosen one, the hapless victients Another part, scared shitless, begged to go home and curl up with her cats
How many wouy could have been doing this for a while She felt her fingers rubbing the scar on her face and pulled her hand away I don’t want to be his target But she had no better way to help her friend What would happen to Kiht? Stay the course, Gabi
The tour had stopped as the guide talked about a tiger rescued from a zoo While they watched, an attendant threater down a slope and launched himself after it Water sprayed everywhere
As she walked to the parking lot, still grinning, she turned her cell phone back on Two missed calls froain Oh joy
"Hello," she said
"You aren’t cutting it, Renard…" He continued on in full Dickhead h… "Two other woht, Renard A blonde and a little brunette Better looking than you too, so tell rab one of them?"
Well, that hurt Maybe it shouldn’t, since she knew she wasn’t especially pretty, but still… She bit back her first response As a social worker, she’d learned that calling someone a sorry-ass loser tended to screw up any chance of cooperation A sharasp the concept "I understand," she said sweetly "But bear in mind if I’m too badly behaved, they’ll wonder why Z doesn’t boot ht"
"You will damn well be louder"
Or what? You’ll take et a person with no clue of how to behave in a club? She changed the subject "Do I have so the day?"
"Of course There’s always one agent soo about your business and leave the work to us"
Her hand clamped on the phone Work, huh? She’d far rather serve as the backup Maybe she should stick clamps on his dick and let him discover the joys of decoy duty…if anyone could find as probably an itty-bitty dick She grinned "Will do"