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Chad had set up shop in Jack’s living room and he, Jack, and Andrew were working every angle possible to locate Kelly and get her back but there were virtually no leads. Kelly’s family had been brought to the house and Mrs. Poole was doing all she could to comfort them but there was not much comfort for them – and there wouldn’t be – until Kelly was found. Her mother was as white as a sheet, sitting there surrounded by her husband and Kelly’s siblings but she was as strong as Kelly and was holding herself together as they waited for news.Jack didn’t think he had ever felt so afraid in his life. Or so angry. He had just found Kelly. They had just started their life together. He hadn’t even told her that he loved her or that he wanted their marriage to be real. He needed time with her. He needed her in his life. If he got his hands on the people who’d taken her from him, he really believed he would rip them apart with his bare hands. It was a level of anger and hate he never imagined h
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By eight o’clock that night, no ransom call had come in. Sam had set up a computer to play 911 calls for Chad as they came into the system. Chad and the others had sat for hours listening, searching for any hint of the kidnappers’ whereabouts, but so far there was nothing.Searching for something to do, Jack turned to check with Andrew on the status of the money.“I’ve got ten lined up. I can get you about three million more from one of my accounts in the morning,” Andrew answered.Jack held his friend’s eye for a moment and both men knew there was no need to thank Andrew for the money. No way a ‘thank you’ could, or would ever be enough.“Boss,” Sam said to Chad. Chad paused the playback of the 911 calls and turned to Sam. Jack felt as if everyone in the room was moving in slow motion. He wanted to shake them, to scream and yell until they produced something to lead to Kelly but he knew there was nothing more they could do. There wasn’t a damn lead in sight.Sam spoke to Chad in a hu
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Jack and Chad huddled in the stairwell of the third floor and watched the door to the apartment while they waited for the FBI to arrive. Without warning, they heard a door open in the hallway. Chad and Jack pressed their backs up against the wall. Chad leaned forward and peeked through the narrow glass window in the stairwell door and saw two men coming toward them. He held two fingers up to Jack who nodded and knelt down to cross under the window to the other side of the door. With Chad on one side of the door and Jack on the other, they could take the men down as soon as they entered the stairwell.The door opened and Jack and Chad acted quickly. Each of them struck one of the two men. It was a quick, silent takedown and they had the men subdued in under a minute. Chad pulled zip ties out of his back pocket and they bound the men’s hands behind their backs.“Let’s get them downstairs before they wake up. I don’t have anything to cover their mouths and the last thing we need is for t
Dangerous Attraction 2 : Love and Suspense 30 : DEATHSCAPE
The fox behind the hundred-year-old Pennsylvania farmhouse inched forward in the withered grass as it stalked the meadow vole. Gray winter clouds rolled above, forcing their way across the sky, large brutes that had been twisted into violent shapes by the winds of the troposphere. The fox paid little mind to the weather, its eyes on its prize.At the other end of the farmyard loomed a dilapidated barn, filled with the scent of moldy hay and rotting wood—the sweet scent of decay. A man crouched in the shadows of the hayloft, looking out through a gap in the boards to watch the fox.Some hunters stalked their prey; others baited their trap, then lay in wait for the ambush. He preferred the challenge of setting up the right trap, drawing his victim to him. He liked to think his way, since it required more finesse, was the nobler way.Anyone could follow a guy into a dark alley and shoot him in the back. But a quick death was not what he had in mind for today. Detective Sullivan had dogge
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the empty road, and the barren, snow-covered fields that lined it on either side. She blinked hard a couple of times, then stepped back inside, suddenly cut off at the knees. No feeling in the universe compared to that of a mother watching her child being taken away.She turned the old-fashioned brass key in the lock. She used to love its warm patina, the way it perfectly complemented the deep color of the hundred-year-old oak door. Braided wool rugs covered most of the wide-paneled floor that matched the door. The narrow stained-glass window above the door painted the walls with color and light in the foyer.When they’d first moved in, she’d spent hours walking around the house, drinking in the colors and textures, the play of light and shadow, absorbing the visual feast through her skin. Maddie and she had giddily sketched every interesting nook, their way of taking possession of their new home.For a moment, she could clearly remember that deep sense of contentment, the pure joy. T
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Ashley picked up the brush again and lifted it to the canvas, except now the colors seemed all wrong. The light had changed too. She looked through the row of oversized windows that stretched from floor to ceiling, taking up the whole north end of the loft. Moody snow clouds had drifted in, casting a fatigued gray tint on everything.Her hand jerked, leaving an angry slash in the middle of the canvas. A headache drummed to life in the back of her skull.It’s not going to happen today.She ignored the shiver that skipped down her spine.This is a normal day. I’m painting a normal composition.But it was too late. It was happening already. She squeezed her eyes shut against the images flooding her brain, but no resistance would help now. She couldn’t escape.This time, the body—a man, midthirties—lay in a shallow grave surrounded by low brush. A distinct rock loomed nearby, blocking the view of a creek beyond.The image stirred faint memories that refused to come into focus. Her headach
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Jack Sullivan stared at the bright light at the end of the tunnel. He looked straight into the damn light, walked toward it, and was so glad to be rid of the pain, he couldn’t have cared less that he was dying.Time stood like seawater trapped in a tidal pool, disconnected and unmoving.But after a while, he realized he wasn’t alone in the void.Shannon?No, not his sister. But someone definitely there. And the fact that he wasn’t alone brought him some peace.Until he was yanked back—by the cold and the pain and his unfinished business—and realized that he wasn’t dead yet after all, but close to it. He couldn’t lift his hands. He tried to blink and got an eyeful of dirt.Something heavy sat on his chest, on his whole body. Seconds passed before he understood that he’d been packed into some cold, tight space—then another second before he realized he was buried.If there’d been anything in his clenched stomach, he might have thrown up and choked himself to death. As it was, he only hea
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A naked, possibly dead man lay in her foyer. Now what?Ashley peeked from the kitchen, shivering against the cold that poured in the open front door. When she’d rushed off to save him, she hadn’t thought this far ahead, what she would do once she found him. She hadn’t thought he would attack her.Maybe she hadn’t been supposed to save him. Maybe he was the same kind of man as whoever had put him into that shallow grave, one criminal taking out another, eliminating competition.She held on to the broom she’d grabbed as the first possible weapon she could think of and inched toward him. When she reached close enough, she poked him in the side. He didn’t move.Whoever he was, he was well built, had seen either plenty of physical labor or regular exercise. He had a well-proportioned body she might have been tempted to paint another time and place, under different circumstances. He hardly looked ready to be painted just now.His face was swollen and bloody, like the rest of him. An arrange
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