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He pulls back and slams back in.
“Yes. Yes, just like that. God, you feel so good.”
It doesn’t take long and we’re both exploding. He holds me cradled to his chest as we both come down. Then he gently washes my hair making sure he rinses it well. I wash his chest and back. Too soon he takes charge and finishes us both. After toweling us off, he sets me on the counter and helps me dry my hair. Then takes me to bed and snuggles me to his side. Safe and peaceful sleep finds me immediately.
CHAPTER 11
Hawke
I need this over. I need to know he will never get to her again. The best laid plans can go wrong. Now that she’s mine. I want him out of the picture, so we aren’t looking over our shoulders.
I want to give her back the freedom and life that was stolen from her. Wine and dine her, take her on dates to her favorite places where she no longer needs to worry who’s watching. On vacations to all the places she talked about going, like Paris and London. I want to give her all the attention she’s been missing since the first hit and run.
Over the last two days, she was able to piece together information from her college and others within a hundred-mile radius where women were attacked and raped. The name and description of the attacker was always different, but the MO seemed similar enough to match. The change in appearance easy enough to be a disguise.
The attacker would ingrate himself into their study groups, build a friendship, start coming to their home. A male student who needed tutoring. Then lover. Then the breakup. The woman has a tragic accident, moves away, or disappears and whateverproject she was working on is gone with her. Five women are missing. Laney would have been six.
He deserves to be taken out before he hurts someone else. This is my fault. I should have ended him the first time I saw marks on her throat. Someone like that never changes. They just learn to hide their actions better.
My phone vibrates in my pocket. Pulling it, I glance at the screen. Vance. “We need to take this. It’s the boss.”
She nods, taking a seat at the breakfast bar. I’ve noticed it’s her chair of choice because it’s easier for her to slide off onto her feet, rather than pushing up off the couch. I sit next to her.
“What’s up?” I ask when Vance’s image appears.
“Everything okay with you two?”
“Yeah. Something wrong?
“There’s been a break in our research and a breach here. We caught and stopped the breach, but it makes me uncomfortable.”
I stiffen. “Explain.”
“Allen isn’t the computer talent Delaney is. He left a trail a mile wide for us to follow when he accessed the hospital records. But he now knows she was moved under Halo Security protection. Someone, we think it’s Allen, has been trying to access our systems to find Delaney. He was looking for your name too, Hawke.”
“What about your research?” I ask.
“Seems Allen Riven is related to one of the city council members. Who just happens to be married to a doctor at the hospital where Delaney was taken after her latest attack.
“We believe his uncle may be in on some of Allen’s scams and rape’s or it’s vice versa. We aren’t sure who the lead is currently.”
“What do you mean?”
“We found rape accusations from years ago when his uncle, Paul Riven Jeffries was in college in another state. Most were dismissed for lack of evidence. One came close to going to trialuntil the victim pulled out and disappeared. Her car was found at the bottom of a lake a couple years after. She was still in it. He’s also had some questionable business deals and donations that gave him the money to run for office in the first place.”
They have contacts and access to information from the hospital. The massage therapist pops in my head.Give me your email and I’ll send you some videos.
“The medical massage therapist worked at the hospital where Paul Jeffries wife works. She wanted to send me videos. She asked for my email. I told her to send them to the office and they’d forward to me. I never got them. Could someone have given her information thinking she needed to contact us for medical purposes? Could she be helping Allen?”
I hear Evie in the background. “On it.”
“Send the team to get Laney. Set a trap for Riven to come here looking for her. I’ll handle it.”
“Thought that’s what you’d say. We’re double checking a couple things, but I have a team getting ready to deploy to you. Not taking any chances.
“No,” Laney speaks up. “We stay together. I want to be here when Allen comes. I want to look him in the eye and tell him to go to hell. I’m tired of running and hiding. I want this over.”
“No. I need you safe.”
