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"No It’s covered," said Caleb with ust in his voice than he would have liked

"Ah, I see Trouble in paradise"

Caleb felt his fists clench "You wanna be part of this or not?"

Hart held up his hands "Point taken Don’t talk about your love life Or lack thereof"

Caleb shot Hart a glare "I’ with you on this, aren’t I?"

Hart just grinned "Without a doubt"

Kara kept a close eye on Caleb as he spoke to the police She couldn’tfrom this distance, but Caleb’s ency Whatever they were talking about, it had nothing to do with her or the fire

Good She didn’t need any more of Caleb’s interference

The stench of snored it as she snapped photos of the scene Lana’s parents sat huddled together under blankets, like refugees

Their fingers were laced together as they stared at the s re down the wo

Kara froze the iital camera so she could save it with al the rest She kneas risky to have this kind of evidence on her, but she couldn’t help that She had to show Marcus what she’d done He was going to be so proud of her

After snapping a few more pictures with her zoom lens, Kara moved her car several blocks down the street so it wouldn’t be spotted She puled over and got out to retrieve her laptop froes and e-mail them to Marcus

She opened the trunk and her laptop wasn’t there The trunk was empty

Kara had put her coo She’d been out of her car for no et a cup of coffee

Apparently, that five h for it to be stolen

A sickening suspicion rose up inside her Kara scanned the area as sheWhoever had taken it was gone, but she was pretty sure she kneho had done it--or at least who had ordered the laptop to be stolen

Marcus hadn’t been pleased about that video of him He would have been livid if he’d known she had a backup of the video hanging fro to herself, but when it came to Marcus, she had so little self-control She wanted to please him too much

Maybe that was atoo hard

Maybe she wasn’t trying hard enough

Yes That was it He’d taken her in, fed her and clothed her, and protected her when no one else cared And now she had to show hirateful she was She had to try harder

If she couldn’t take care of Lana with Caleb guarding her, then she’d have to take care of his at the saer the explosion, the better

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

Lana sat on her living rooers had a mind of their own as they doodled over the paper It wasn’t until they stopped that she realized what she’d drawn The face of the man who had beaten her The man Caleb had kiled

With a jolt of panic, Lana tore the sketch up into tiny pieces and flushed it down the toilet She was going to have to behad taken place where soht be dead before she had time to flush the evidence

Lana set the paper out of reach and curled up on the couch, hoping Caleb would hurry She wanted this over with

It was nearly ht, but she kneould come here What she hadn’t expected was for hih the door, pocketing a key How he got it she had no idea, but he wasn’t leaving here with it

His dark eyes slid over her, taking in her floppy robe and the bare feet sticking out beneath it "You’re stil awake"

"I aiting for you," she said

A relieved smile curved his ood that h ti I wanted to make sure you understand that what happened between us last night was a onetiuy, but I’ht now Even just sex"