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He was neutralizing the Robertses one way or the other He’d be da else to hinder his and Jaci’s life He’d take care of the Robertses’ threats to her reputation, then he would try, God help him, he would try to be honest with her Asinside him unclenched a little more every day that she was back in his life There was a sense of newness, of life now, and he wasn’t losing that
And if thatthe club, then that hat the hell he would do He couldn’t kill a congressuaranteed to piss Jaci off
"What the hell is going on? We’ve been working for hours to get thiswith Obermeyer, and you cancel at the laston"
Papers spilled from the printer as Chase jerked a small stack fro in the wrong fucking place, Cam Son of a bitch, I fucked up"
Ca, hard look, and began to scan theland, Italy, New York, and Cancun All four locations, and one person had been there each time Someone Jaci shouldn’t have even known at the time
"Why?" he asked
"That was the hard part" Chase shook his head wearily "I’ve spent last night and ure that one out I finally found a source, though An ex-lover It’s all because of Annalee A love for Annalee And Jaci soered a psychotic need to defend the congressman’s wife"
Cam stared at the information, laid it on the desk, and braced his hand beside it as he used the other to go through each page
This explained the bungled atteth here, no experience; there was only emotion and fear
"I ust "I looked right the fuck over it"
"You’re not the only one" Ca inside of him now "I went over the same information, Chase I missed it, too"
This particular area had been Chase’s The division of the investigation, the years they required to go back on anyone, required that they divide certain portions This one hadn’t been Caone over it, checked it Hell, he had double-checked it And he had missed this
"What now?" Chasewith the anger, Caht now He would burn after he talked to Jaci, after he figured out the best course of action to take to protect her Because there was no doubt there were going to be problems here
"The psychiatrist’s report is in there, too," Chase revealed "I et that It’s not pretty, Cam"
No, it wasn’t He found it even as Chase spoke, and the records of thedown Cam’s spine He was certain the psychiatrist had felt that same chill, if her comments were any indication
It wasn’t pretty at all It was a life of petty hatreds, of uncertainties and fears and paranoia It was a rasp on reality, until one person had found a way to reach inside the fears and connect with it
A gentle hand A woh--affection Though it was incredibly hard for Cam to find proof of affection inside Annalee Roberts, still, by all accounts it had been her efforts that had soothed the increasing erratic psychotic i the the heavy regret in his expression, the pain that the knowledge brought
"The committee has to know about this," he stated "It’s a risk to the club, Chase We can’t allow it"
Chase’s gaze flickered with demons They weren’t as shadowed as Cam knew his own often were Chase had demons that walked with him, he had for years, and they burned in his eyes now
"At least it won’t be the punitive coh sanity there to understand punishment?" His hand waved to the report "God, Ca the suspicion?"
Caine it A cos And couessed, only during the more lucid moments
"Jaci didn’t know," he finally said "She has no idea anyone has been trying to kill her"
"No fucking wonder," Chase snarled "With those bungling atte but accidents"
"She’s stubborn, not stupid" Ca to hurt Jaci "If she thought her life was in danger, she would have coht she was strong enough to stand with hih to know she was in no position to protect herself against a psychotic killer
"Annalee’s reputationelse th to her No one sees the other side She strikes out at potential ene her public life"
Ca to have to see this" And he hated that Taking this to her, seeing the hurt, the disillusion to kill him
"Courtney as well," Chase warned hier here, Cam Courtney’s loyalty is as fierce as Jaci’s She’ll have to see the proof of this"
"It’s a hell of athis to Jaci Or Courtney It’s going to break their hearts"