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“What do you want me to do?”

“The fact this person addressed her as Durango and not Brandon, her stage name, has her scared It means he or she knows the real Toni” He slips the letter back in his pocket and grabs a raphs in it and places it under a paperweight on the desk “She’s afraid for her little girl”

“How old is the child?”

“Almost a year”

Sauess I understand how she feels”

Patrick nods “She’s tough, but you kno it is Hit soet whatever you want”

Inhaling deeply, I nod and start for the door “Speaking of, I need to get home Let me know as soon as you hear from her Tell her not to be afraid We’ll take care of this”

Chapter 4: The Last Straw

Melissa

Derek is at the kitchen table when I open the door to rueso one of the prints

“Melissa?” He crosses the roo?”

I lift the photograph, holding it so he can see what I know “Dex knocked this off your desk”

His jaw clenches, but he doesn’t speak I don’t need hiht he’d told me he could kill a“special skills” He’d said he wasn’t proud of that one

“You did this” My voice is so quiet, yet it feels like the loudest thing in the room

His eyes close, and for the second tiht Only this ti down, until I’ arms at once