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It dawned on me. "Wait. You're the man that took her from the motel? You're the man that has been helping her in hiding!? The man she's been sleeping with?" I asked him even as the puzzle finally fit in my mind. No wonder Tanner is here.

Tan snorted, "Sleeping with Jasamina? I've been helping the girl, Xax, but we sure as hell have not been sleeping together. That sonofabitch did a number on that girl that she's so afraid of men. I'm the only man that comes close." His voice was hard and anger radiated from him in waves.

Tan was confusing me. "Did a number on who? The girl has been feeding you lies. She ran away from home with the poor man's child. She's crazy in the head."

But Tanner shook his head hard. Instead of replying, he started hurriedly for the house.

"I have to find her and stop her, if not she'll be running away again!" He said as a way of explanation, already several feet away from me.

I hurried after him. We entered the house just in time