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“You’re very fond of her,” Reeanna co way if I say she wasn’t at all what I expected when I learned Roarke was to ined his spouse as a woman of polish and sophistication A homicide detective ears her shoulder harness as another woht an heirloom necklace wasn’t ether, suited One ht even say,” she added with a smile, “destined”

“That I can agree with”

“Now, tell ?”

“Oh, well now” Happily, Mira settled down for a lively busman’s holiday

At her desk unit, Eve juggled the data she’d coh, Mathias, and Pearly She could find no link, no coround The only real correlation between the three was the fact that none of them had exhibited any suicidal tendencies before the fact

“Probability the subject cases are related?” Eve demanded

Working Probability five point two percent

“In other words, zip” Eve blew out a breath, scowling autoy“Probability of ho currently known data”

With currently known data, probability of hoht point three percent

“Give it up, Dallas,” she told herself in a o”

Deliberately, she swiveled in her chair, watching the air traffic clog the sky outside herPredestination Fate Genetic imprint If she were to believe in any of that, as the point of her job—or her life, for that le to save lives or stand for the dead when the struggle failed?

If it was all physiologically coded, had she si her way out of the dark todecent out of herself? And had it been a smear on that code that had blocked out those early years of her life, that continued to shadow bits and pieces of it even now?

And could that code kick in, at any given moment, and make her a reflection of the monster who had been her father?

She knew nothing of her other blood kin Her randparents, they were all lost in that dark void in her enetic code on but the hout childhood until in terror and pain she had struck back

And killed