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Authors: Karin Tabke

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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN S iren worked the crowd. The woman who’d slipped into her skin was not Phil, hell, she wasn’t even Kat, she was Siren, queen of the dance floor. Seductress extraordinaire, undercover cop on the hunt for a kidnapper. She used reverse psychology on the stage. The kidnapper wanted her to dance for him, he’d commanded it. What if she danced for another? Could she anger him? Draw him out of the crowd? Or would he turn on her? Take revenge by snatching another dancer? He’d gone outside of his regular MO. Now he was taunting. Two notes in less than a week? Siren bet he was close to losing control. She went with her gut and turned her full attention on tormenting her boss. Swaying her hips to the grind of the music, Siren extended her arm and pointed right at Ty. She smiled beneath her mask and danced to the edge of the stage. She crooked her finger and bade him to come to her. It was so easy. Like a string was attached to his chest, she walked backward and he floated towa

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT T y drove like a fiend possessed, his flight instinct strong, his fight instinct gone. When the going got tough, Ty got going, as far away from emotional entanglements as he could get. He could still see Phil’s tragic dark blue eyes blinking back tears. Son of a bitch! The feelings battling inside him were enough to make a sane person crazy. If this was love, the world could fucking have it! Love? Holy shit. He slammed on the brakes and pulled to the side of the road. Not love. He didn’t know the meaning of the word, just that he was sure as hell he’d never felt it and no one had ever expressed it to him. He thought of life without Phil. His gut twisted, the thought more than unpleasant. It was downright depressing. No one had ever mattered enough, only his mother, and after a while her memory faded and he stopped wishing for what could have been. He gunned the truck back onto the road, continuing his flight path. He couldn’t go back, he had a case to work, and whi

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

EPILOGUE

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