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“You know me that well, do you?”

“You’re the one who just told me all about how much you love routine, but I know plenty more about you than just that I know you love your fa And I know that if you'd ever let anyone close enough to scratch your anal-retentive surface, they'd find there's so anizational skills”

Sam concentrated on the empty road ahead of them much more than needed He had no clue how to r

espond to her declaration On unsure eround, he resorted to the best self-defensea prick

“Whatto help you find the treasure? Maybe I' to turn you and that buffoon Linc over to Hank as soon as I get back to town”

For once, Josie didn't have a s Sam didn't realize he'd miss until it wasn't there

The fallow, snow-covered fields whipped by as they sped down the highway, clocking in at fifteenthe sheriff's brother in a s tickets from the state patrol wasn't one of theas and settled back into a more professorial pace Much more like him

“Are you going to tell Hank?”

Her soft question thrummed his conscience “No, I won't tell him”

“So you'll help me find Rebecca's Bounty?”

“No” He was going to find the treasure on his own At this point, getting her any deeper involved than she'd already er, and he wasn't willing to risk that—even if they did have to go their separate ways Josie had burrowed her way into hi a place for herself in the nooks and crannies of his soul that had stayed vacant for far too long If he wasn't careful, he'd never be able to get her back out Hell, it was probably too late

“Then what is your plan?” Her cheeks had turned beet red

He parked the car in front of the only guest cabin at O’Neill’s where the s hadn't been shuttered for the winter “Not to see you until I have the treasure”

Chapter Thirteen

Under the cover of darkness, Josie inched up theto Sam's house Her held breath burned in her chest as she strained to hear the slightest noise—or the blaring of an alarm system After two break-ins in two days, if anyone in this small town needed a security system, it was him But instead of an alar of blood in her ears