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She was busy discovering she had no clean underwear and didn’t notice the iced edge of his voice “Maybe, ns of forced entry He could have shoved it under the door That’s what he did the first ti under surveillance”
Resigned, she pulled slacks over bare skin “He either knew it or sot the discs, all three of them He kneas primary almost before I did”
She searched for socks, got lucky, and found a pair that ie Castle’s murder scene e of the bed, pulled on the socks “He planted a weapon, made sure it was traceable To you Not to knock how inconvenient a e would have made your life, Roarke, if I hadn’t had the commander behind me on this, I’d have been off the case, and out of the departoes on inside Cop Central He knohat’s going on in my life”
“Fortunately, he didn’t know that I wasn’t even on the planet”
“That was a break for both of us” She located her boots, tugged the to stop hi to try to get to me, and you’re his best bet”
Roarke watched her auto it on “Why you?”
“He doesn’t have a high opinion of wo the investigation It lowers his status” She shrugged, raked her fingers through her hair to whip it into place “At least that’s the shrink’s opinion”
Philosophically, she pried the cat free when he started to cliht toss to the bed where he turned his butt in her direction and began to wash
“And is it the shrink’s opinion that he could try to eliminate you by more direct means?”
“I don’t fit the pattern”
Fighting back the slippery edge of fear, Roarke fisted his hands in his pockets “And if he breaks the pattern?”
“I can handle myself”
“It’s worth risking your life for three women who are already dead?”
“Yes” She heard the fury pulsing in his voice and faced it “It’s worth risking my life to find justice for three women who are already dead, and to try to prevent three h He’s left a note under each body He’s wanted us to know, right fro us to stop him One of six, two of six, three of six I’ll do whatever it takes to keep hi the fourth”
“Full-out guts That’s what I first admired about you Now it terrifies me”