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"They’re lost, Max" A bleakness in her eyes it hurt hi theraves"
He heard in those words an echo of the nightmare summer that had almost destroyed her, a silent, painful ache, and knew he had to let her do this "Even a hint of a problereed?"
It was reed"
"I’ Bart know he needs to have an M-Psy on standby"
"That’s a good precaution" No M-Psy could heal the telepathic deterioration of a J, ed one like Sophia, but they could perhaps help her handle any physical syation room--Bonner will pounce on even a hint of weakness"
"Don’t let the bastard get to you" Tugging down her glove to expose a patch of naked skin between glove and cuff, he bent his head as she watched in thrall His kiss branded her from the inside out "We have the little matter of frustration to discuss"
CHAPTER 25
Sometimes evil wins But not here Not today
--From the private case notes of Detective Max Shannon:
State of New York v Bonner
Nikita wasn’t pleased at the interruption in her investigation, but she didn’t attempt to stand in their way after Max made it clear that not only would they continue to work her case while in Wyo, but that Bonner’s victi will this trip take?" she asked
"If Bonner gives up the bodies"--a grim hope--"I’ll have to inform the parents" They knew hi "After that, forensics will take over Since Bonner is already in prison for the length of his natural life, it’s not ih before, he would’ve been, would have wanted to see it through to the bitter, destructive end
Now, he had other priorities "I can delegate the supervision to one of the other detectives"--good cops, cops who’d sacrificed weekends, given up vacations, to help Max in the hunt for the Butcher of Park Avenue--"and keep an eye on things from a distance" Of course, he’d never be free of the Bonner case, not truly And perhaps he didn’t want to be A man carried scars on his heart They est scar of all
No He refused to lose her, this J with her hunger for touch and her giftedup a cell phone call, she turned to the plate-glass"I expect you to keep ht by the iaze somewhere far in the distance Powerful Lethal Alone
Sascha stretched out her legs on the ottoainst the softness of the couch Like everyone else in DarkRiver, she’d headed to their healer the instant she’d needed comfort of a feminine kind Lucas had dropped her off after lunch with a kiss--though she kneas only because Tammy’s mate, Nathan, was ho around outside anyway--DarkRiver took the protection of its healer dead seriously
Suspicious scrabbles sounded fro upward, she remained in place, her eyes closed Little click-clacks on the wooden floor, silenced as they hit the rugs Then a fehispering scratches and she felt a war the top of the sofa back to lie down a few inches from her ear Another presence, just as playful, a little h
She’d half expected a baby roar to make her jump up in surprise, but when she opened her eyes, Julian and Ro at her with expressions so innocent, her heartJules while she glanced up at Ro up, he padded over to nuzzle at her ear She tried to catch hi him down, but he jumped onto the couch beside her so she could pet hi you?" Tah with Sascha’s favorite chocolate-chip cookies hot fro sweethearts," Sascha said, as Ro in bliss as she petted his gorgeous little head with firm, sure strokes "They’re not as rambunctious with me anymore"
"What do you expect?" Ta up around Nate and the others They’ve figured out you’re to be ‘looked after’ "