“Maybe you won’t ever. Who better at learning to disappear than a cop? Anyone else?”
“Blade D’Angelo, maybe.”
“And where is he at the moment?”
“I never kept tabs on him. We thought we had the case wrapped up with you.”
The large smile returned. Chad mocked her. “No others come to mind?”
She slowly shook her head.
“Certainly not your darling Marcus.”
Her face heated. Her ears burned. “He had an airtight alibi. Remember?”
“How could I not,” he scoffed. “That case would have secured my next election.”
“That’s what it’s always been about with you, isn’t it? The next election. Never mind you would have sent an innocent man to prison for a crime he didn’t commit.”
“Touché.”
His arrogance nearly unseated her. Had she had her gun, surely she would have pulled the trigger on the bastard and been sent behind bars herself. But who would blame her?
“Well then, LeAnne, somebody must have done it. If not me, then who?”
LeAnne nearly shook with the knowledge of Jillian’s killer still walking free. If Chad had not killed her, then who? And if the same person who killed Jillian, and possibly the caretaker, had spray-painted the grave marker and her windshield…
His smile split his face, almost as though he could read her mind. “That’s right, babe. Your life is still in danger. It was never me you had to fear, at least not until the night you spread your—”
She covered her ears. “Shut up, Chad!”
He leaned back in his chair and folded his cuffed hands over his taut stomach. “The truth hurts…doesn’t it? I’m not the only one who wishes you harm.”
Tears pooled in her eyes.
“Someone wants to send you…Straight to HELL.” A trembling hand covered her mouth.
“Maybe you won’t have to worry about me ever getting out of here.”
No, it couldn’t possibly be true.
“Maybe someone else will get to you first.”
LeAnne stood abruptly, sending the plastic chair rocking on all fours, her tears making treks down her cheeks.
“You killed all of them—I know you did!” Her voice trembled.
“Are you so sure?”
“You won’t do this to me.”
“I won’t have to, LeAnne, because in your mind, you already think I might be right—that I might not have killed those other two.”
Not wanting to give free rein to anything he had to say, lest it make it more true, she ran from the room. Chad Baker had concocted an artfully spun web of lies to scare her. Nothing more. He was responsible for all of the women’s death and the caretaker’s.
…Or was he?
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Grayson “Gypsy” Gabor loves the ladies. As a matter of fact, the more the merrier. Life is good. That is until a mishap with a sexy-as-hell redhead leaves them mated. The eldest of vampires, Vlad Tepes, gives him a choice: Keep her or give her up for all eternity to his one-time best friend, Anton.
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Other Novels
Love You to Pieces
Deadly Obsession
The Hour Before Dawn
Kiss of Deceit
Eyes of Betrayal
Facade
Novellas
Spirit Me Away
Heat Wave
Fear the Dark
Sanitarium
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A daydreamer at heart, national bestselling author Patricia A. Rasey resides in her native town in Northwest Ohio with her husband, Mark, and her lovable Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Todd. A graduate of Long Ridge Writer’s School, Patricia has seen publication of some her short stories in magazines as well as several of her novels.
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