Chapter Fifteen: Kat

Kat

A warm smile crossed his face that made her knees tremble. Again, he took another step forward. He was close now. So close that she could smell beyond his aftershave, she could smell him. Masculine and wonderful. He smelled even better than she remembered. It was a smell that froze her.

“I had the hotel torn apart to get that note. Here is all they found,” he said, handing her his phone.

She took a look at the torn letter in her handwriting, framed against a white background.

Dear AJ,

I had an amazi

I want to see y

I wish I coul

I hope you unde

Please call me. 5

Yours Truly,

Kat

She laughed as she looked at it, raising her hand to her mouth. All the ink had washed away, and there was a giant red stain across the top half of it. It looked like they had lit the paper on fire just to get this much out of it, but the rest was either washed or torn away. There was just enough to show how crazy she was for him, but not enough to find her.

She wanted to respond, but couldn’t remember how