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"He’s "

"Don’t lie to ie!"

"Hey, Sean!" Jack warned softly

Sean realized that he was out of control, thoroughly frustrated, andthe walls, he was jealous, irrational--and suddenly scared to death for Maggie

"Maggie!" he barked out, ignoring Jack

"An old friend, Sean--that’s all We metin Europe He’s just arrived recently" An old friend? Or an old lover?

"How did you coie?" he deer She glanced down at Maht that he saw Mahtly

Maggie set her hands on her hips "Gut feeling I was suddenly nervous about Mamie I hadn’t heard from you I came down to the bar and Sam said that Mamie had just left, so I ca and "

"Sean, you’re grilling her like a hardened criminal!" Jack said softly

He tried to ease the stiffness in his shoulders, the steel that seeht She was lying through her teeth

"What about your friend?" he demanded

"I don’t know Ask him!" she snapped

Sean crossed his arms over his chest "Well, now, I can’t actually do that--since he’s disappeared right along with the killer" He swung around suddenly, realizing that one of the officers in charge of the unifor for his attention

"Sergeant Meeks"

"Lieutenant, I’m damned sorry, the men are everywhere, but we haven’t found him yet We’ll keep it up with all the ht--we’ve got to keep every available ood one Make sure it’s plastered everywhere But hly dangerous, highly dangerous, and that the population is not to try apprehending him"

"Yessir"

"If you needstateie and Ma Jack and Mike to drive the woht his own car in

Two hours later, he let Mike Astin escort Maiven her state the killer had said, nervously rubbing her neck There were little scratches, but nothing that had broken the surface She still didn’t want to go to a hospital, and she’d see her own doctor if she felt the need She told Sean that the killer had been angry with her for selling him out--he had lain in wait to attack her, and he had told her that he liked chocolate, and nearly given her heart failure He would have killed her if Sean hadn’t corateful She didn’t know anything else, though, there was nothing uard on her place all night That didn’t seeave her statearlic and olive oil, and a salad--with garlic cloves

She’d relieved Mike Astin of a tiny gold cross he wore, then smiled sweetly when Sean quizzed her

"Honey, it’s just one of those nights when I want to feel closer toon your breath, Mahed uneasily She’d insisted on seeing Maggie, and the two of theether for aat Sean as if he were an evil creature, about to pounce on poor Maggie

Well, he was about to pounce on Maggie That was for certain

She sat in his office, irritated now She’d been restless at first, crossing and uncrossing her legs, pacing

Now she just sat back and stared at him

"What is it you want out of one by then The cops were still searching the streets; they hadn’t found the killer

"The truth"

"I told you the truth"

"The whole truth"

She sighed "Honest to God, that’s the truth I felt a strange gut feeling that I needed to see Mamie"

"You two are awfully chummy all of a sudden Especially," he pointed out, "since you were the one who reminded me that she did deal in huie said with a shrug "And no matter what she does, she surely doesn’t deserve to die at this killer’s hands!"

"Right But you should risk your own life?"

"I didn’t mean to risk my own life I just saw that he was about to attack you and " Her voice trailed

He felt a wave of heat sweep over hiht the desire and the emotion she kept so alive within him

"Who was the man? Name, address, if you would, please"

He looked doard at the paper on his desk, pencil in hand, and waited patiently

She didn’t speak

He looked up

"Lucian," she said after a ht now I hadn’t seen him in years before he stopped by the shop the other day"