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"I know you’re alone Why, Kara?"

Kara squeezed her eyes shut and fought her urge to trust Blake, but the fight lasted all of two seconds She was alone She was alone and she needed his help She forced her gaze to his "I was desperate"

"Why would you be desperate?"

"It isn’t just me on the line here, Blake You have no idea howin you to tell you this"

"So you’re not alone?"

"I am I’m alone" More than she ever had been in her life "It’s…o Officials ca, it wasn’t enough for ht you here," he supplied

She gave a nod "She cae retailer, but it was eliminated when she arrived The last I heard fro better Then…she just went silent"

Understanding registered in his face and he released her hands, settling his weight on his elbows on either side of her "And she orking for one of the cartel’s restaurants"

"Yes" She hesitated and then let her hands settle on the all of his chest and somehow the connection ht, but of course, the company files have no record she ever existed And she’d started dating a nacio’s description" Fear for her sister burned in her belly "The landlord at her apart I talked to her every day until she disappeared"

"If the cartel is looking for women they can wipe off the map, her connection to you would rule her out She doesn’t fit the profile"

"She has no connection to o he penetrated a motorcycle club, and they came after him, and our family The FBI split us up and created new identities for both ain until I used my resources to make it happen"

"Why did your father let them split you up in the first place?"