"What do you have?" Hayden asked Dorian anxiously. "He used the same IP address to send both emails. The police couldn't find it because their tech team didn't know how to get through the smoke screens. Now just let me trace it back to get a physical location." They watched as Dorian started typing again. After a few more minutes, he looked up with a smile. "He's at a hotel not far from here. Do you want me to go there, or do you want the police to go?" He asked, looking at Hayden. "Can you go there and see what you can find out? Verify he is there and see if you see anything else that may help the police?" Hayden wanted the man dead but knew some things were better left being played by the book. "Alright. Let me make a few calls, and we'll check it out." Natalia watched the large man walk to the other room. "He's impressive." She said quietly. When Hayden didn't respond, she looked at him. She saw how he was watching Dorian, and she laughed. The man was jealous of the sm
Hayden was in a rage when he saw the message Jon left for Natalia. There was no way that man was getting anywhere near his woman. He picked up his phone and called Dennis. "It's Hayden. Can you come over to the penthouse? We have something you need to see." Dorian looked at his cousin in a panic when he hung up the phone. "What are you doing? I could go to jail for breaking into his room and setting up the cameras." Hayden shook his head. "Don't worry, Dennis won't say anything. We're going to see how we can use this information to get him. That way, if the police get to him before you do, they can lock him up and throw away the key." Hayden looked at Natalia, and she was still staring at the computer screen. "Why does he think I made him sick like this? I don't understand. What did I do to him to make him a monster?" She couldn't get the images of that woman out of her head. Natalia didn't miss the fact that the woman resembled her. Hayden wrapped his arms aroun
Cliff was sweating profusely, sitting in the interrogation room waiting for the detective. He knew he shouldn't have trusted Jon from the beginning. Now he was going to go down in flames while that rat bastard got away. He decided he would be as truthful with the police as possible. Honestly, he didn't know much, and Jon had clearly left him in the dark on purpose. When the detective in the grey suit came in, Cliff's pulse was beating so fast he thought he was going to have a heart attack. Dennis sat down across from Cliff and looked at him with fury in his eyes. "You've already been read your Miranda rights and declined an attorney. So now, why don't you tell me what you and Jon had planned for Natalia." Dennis saw the man across from him swallow nervously. "I...uh...we...uh...we planned to pay her back for how she did each of us wrong," Cliff said as though it made perfect sense. Although now that he was sitting handcuffed in a chair, he was beginning to realize how r
"I guess he thought that would scare me. If anything, it makes me angry that this young woman died because of his misconstrued beliefs. You need to stop him before he kills anyone else." Natalia looked at Dennis. He couldn't believe she wasn't crying and acting terrified that Jon might get her next. "We're doing everything we can. I was hoping to get more information out of Cliff, but it seems like Jon was using him as a pawn. I don't want you going out for anything. If you have doctor appointments, make them come here. Let as few people in as possible. I don't know if he has any others he's using, but he already got to Linnette and Cliff. We need to consider everyone around you a suspect." Dennis looked toward Dorian, who was on the computer, and Hayden let out a small laugh. "You don't need to worry about Dorian. He's like the Peter Pan of the cyber world. He is one of the few people I trust with my and Natalia's lives." Hayden was looking toward his cousin, who l
Jon had pretended to go toward the kitchen but snuck out a side door. He was angry. He'd been so close to Natalia, and his rage had almost gotten the better of him when he saw her sitting in Hayden's arms. She had never been like that with him. He never understood when people said you could feel how much two people love each other, but he now understood after being in their presence for a few minutes. He may be unable to feel anything himself, but their love for one another was so strong it almost choked him. He walked across the street and sat at an outdoor table at a small restaurant. Even if Jon had been unable to touch them, their food had already been poisoned. Nothing too intense, just enough to make them sick. He wanted to get them out of the hotel where they would be more vulnerable. As he waited, he began getting nervous. Did he use too much? Were they lying up there dead? After about thirty minutes, he was getting worried that he had accidentally overdosed h
Natalia, Hayden, and Dorian ate their dinner in silence. They were all lost in their thoughts about how close Jon had gotten to them, with no one realizing it. Hayden had called Dennis and told him what had happened. He also told him what Dorian had found on the cameras. By the time Dennis had alerted the officers in the lobby, Jon was long gone. At least they now knew how he was able to hide so openly. Natalia felt ashamed that she had once loved him and thought he had loved her. She was angry at herself for shedding one tear over how he had hurt her. Hayden was angry at everyone, including himself. Jon could still get into the hotel and their room with all the security they had set up. He looked at Natalia and saw the worry on her pretty face. He took her hand, and she looked up at him. "It won't happen again." He said to her seriously. She instantly knew what he was talking about and nodded. "At least now we know he's wearing masks to hide his identity. Do you think Denn
Andy got to Dennis' within thirty minutes. The detective had everything set up in one of the conference rooms. He had two dry-erase boards covered with pictures. One had photos of the murders, and the other had the pictures taken from Hayden and Natalia's home. "Wow, this guy is sick. He's a cocky son of a bitch because he doesn't even care if people know who he is." Andy studied the murder pictures, and a few things were clear. He was murdering women who looked like Natalia. He enjoyed the dismemberment of the bodies, and he was escalating. "Are Natalia and Hayden in protective custody?" He asked, looking at the pictures of them in their apartment. Andy had seen the video of Natalia being hit by the car and was amazed she was still alive. "They are staying in a penthouse at a hotel. We have officers there, and they have their own security. However, with those precautions in place, Jon was able to get into their hotel room. He wore a prosthetic mask that looked like
When Natalia was sound asleep, Hayden slid out of bed and went to the other room to talk to Dorian. He knew his cousin would still be up. When he was working on something important, he got very little sleep. He looked up when Hayden sat next to him. "I thought you went to bed?" Dorian asked him. "I did, but I wanted to talk to you. Do you think you and your men can find Jon's current location? I will pay you whatever you need to find and get rid of him. I'm done playing his games. He's terrifying Natalia, and she's already been through enough." Hayden spoke quietly in case Natalia woke up. "I've been trying to find him, but I can get some of my men to help. Don't worry about the money. We want to get this man off the street so he can stop terrorizing these women." Dorian went to his chat screen and typed a message. "Men, it's time for hunting." "They'll know what that means and start working even harder, digging in the depths of the internet to find him. He had to have left a