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Dawg shook his head That question was still eating away at his brain

"Whoever made aith the money set her up as well as the buyers and sellers for the missiles

Whoever the woet Crista there Why would she want to kill her now? She obviously set Crista up Why wait till now to get rid of her?"

"Are we certain we got all the players?" Natches asked "The buyers could have had a man on the outside That’s what I would have done"

"Why try to kill her without trying to find theasked "Better yet, what’s the point in killing her until they get thesilently, his expression still, cals fro to his own houseboat, the Nauti Wet Drea Otherwise, it would have gone up with the first turn of the key So her that they’re not letting it go

We need to go to Cranston, pull him in on this Show her picture to the players and see how they react"

"I don’t trust Cranston that far," Dawg muttered

"You don’t trust anyone that far, but Cranston has a good grasp of how things work We don’t tell him Crista was at the warehouse We explain about the Rodeo, our suspicions that Crista o froerously "Cranston could decide to go hat he can arrest and forget the rest"

Natches shook his head "He’s too good for that, Dawg He’ll want to use it, and we can use the team this way Let’s see hoorks What do we have to lose? We’re her alibi, reht it?"

The shower shut off upstairs Dawg turned his head and gave the stairs a long, hard look

"Talk to Cranston," he said "We’ll see where it goes"

He alking a dahtrope, and he knew it If the players arrested at the warehouse the other night identified Crista as their go-between, then all the suspicion would fall on Crista

"Cranston’s smarter than to believe it would be this easy," Natches assured hi in theto talk to him I’ll flash the pictures to our boys in the cells and see e get We could get lucky, and they won’t recognize her"

Dawg grunted at that "Don’t bet on it"

He let Natches out of the houseboat and locked the door behind hi for the stairs

Crista was up there Showered, soft, and warive hi with one ht of her living with twoin a relationship that his women had always shared with him and his cousins, was like an acid to his soul

Because Dawg couldn’t io and definitely not now

He headed to the stairs, htened with the thought of her wearing the clothes he had bought her, the lacy panties he had picked out or the brief paja through hie of her lovers

Her lovers

God help hiht of sharing her with his cousins would have had his cock pounding in glee Now, he had to shake back the jealousy, fight to hold back his outrage that she would leave him for not just one man but two

She had taken fro froht she had run because of his reputation, because of her fear of the ht into another one had his te a thin, sharp line

When he entered the upper-level bedroo on the bed, wearing one of his large shirts rather than her new pj’s, slowly spreading sos, which looked silky, rounded, and too da to believe

For a s spread, his mouth buried between them His senses erupted with the remembered taste of silky, sweet feminine crea as drunk on her as he was on the whiskey, as her fingers clenched in his hair and she whispered His teeth clenched She was a vocal lover Begging, pleading, urging hi the shirt where it covered her abdo down at it as she rose nervously to her feet

Oh, baby, it would pay for you to be nervous, he thought with a er Because there were so s he intended to do with that hot little body

"You have lousy taste in pajah e stalanced over at the chair where so boy short panties and camisole tops would have covered more flesh than he liked, actually

It wasn’t the paja, Crista" He began unbuttoning his shirt "When did you intend to telland his friend Ty Grayson?"

Her gaze flickered, her eyes narrowing back at him as the buttons released from his shirt and his flesh sensitized with the need to touch her

Then, a slender brow arched tauntingly "Why would I tell you anything, Dawg? It was none of your business And that’s beside the fact that they weren’t my lovers I simply lived with them"

"You slept with the"

She shrugged "I slept with them occasionally"