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“It’s a loaner I told the owner in Las Vegas who has it up for sale that I was interested in a test drive”

“To Arizona?”

“I told hiht—and paid him handsomely”

Fuck! He’d found a car that, on the outside, looked identical to Dane’s The guards at the entrance of the property wouldn’t have batted an eye as it caates—as we did now on our way out I wanted to scream at the injustice This man drove a vehicle that was so rare, only twenty-nine people other than Dane had one

We blew right through the opening without slowing down Then he punched it, driving so fast that even if I could have found the lock on the door and had the nerve to atteht have killed me

As though he sensed I contemplated an escape, Vale Hilliard said, “If you cooperate, you won’t get hurt”

“What are you planning to do?”

“Kidnapping you is a start”

With an aggravated shake of my head, I said, “You sent the flowers, didn’t you?” Daht into his trap

He grinned again “Dane will panic when he realizes you’reI’ll call him and tell him he can have you back, unharmed—for a price”

I sed hard “You want part of the Lux”

“No My father does”

My gaze narrowed “Your father?”

“Well, I get so out of it as well” He slowed—barely—and I screamed as we took a hairpin turn onto a red-dirt road, the tires squealing as we left the asphalt behind The car splashed through a puddle, coating the car cried terrain jarred me and we slipped a bit in the mud

My heart now pounded fiercely