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"Which hotel?"

"The Royal Blue," she said "If you’re thinking about staying there, I’e block of rooms You should check around quickly before everyone is sold out"

"Understood," Luke said "Thank you" He turned away and started walking The airline wasn’t the only one with a Royal Blue contract Airport administration and security had one as well, and he had a security clearance badge that gave him priority reservations He was headed to the Royal Blue and he wasn’t giving Julie a chance to run away to a different hotel

He’d see her when she arrived

Chapter Two

An hour and a half after she’d left Luke behind in the airport, Julie was off the plane and inside a hotel, rolling her bag toward the registration desk She wondered about Luke and where his flight and the night had taken hi The temptation to call him would have been extreme if she actually had his nu that charter flight to get out of here quickly But she didn’t have his nu to call Lauren and Royce and freak theht well be on an early ht If not, well, she’d find her own charter if she had to, and ignore her oarning issued to Luke to be careful She’d walk home before she’d miss Lauren’s rehearsal dinner

Julie stopped at the roped-off area to wait in line for registration, noting that there were a good ten people in front of her, ht the first shuttle to the hotel or the line would probably be longer already

With a sigh, she leaned on her suitcase, feeling the ache of the long day, and as time ticked by without any movement, she let her lashes lower Her oodbye to Luke To that day in the airport when she’d dropped him off The end of their affair had come far too soon She told him the world needed more men like him "What do you need?" he’d asked in response It had been all she could do not to say, "You, Luke I need you"

A sudden shiver of foreboding swept down Julie’s spine with such intensity that she straightened and cast a furtive glance around the lobby Her attention was drawn instantly to threewith their backs to her near the door to what looked like a restaurant or a bar They weren’t even looking her way and yetthere was so about them

Elizabeth Moore’s words played in her head "He won’t kill me He won’t kill you But there are others who’ll kill us all if they find out what he’s hiding" Julie rubbed her aret the best of her