It didn’t matter that she didn’t believe in coincidences. She didn’t believe in love either yet, like yesterday’s trash, it was littered all around her.
The pound against her skull mushroomed until she thought her head would explode.
She’d make Chase see sense. Self-preservation aside, she had an obligation. If the police were looking at her, it left the killer free to kill again. If that was his plan. Something she didn’t doubt. She’d researched enough psychopaths to know gratification killers rarely stopped at one. It was her responsibility to change that. Fast. Whatever the consequences.
Which meant a visit to Chase’s precinct and a long conversation. The thought of seeing him made her skin burn. The burn lower and deeper she chose to ignore.
Luck dangled the entire weekend before her. Time enough to prepare for their confrontation, and time enough to stew. Still, come Monday, only one more exchange and she’d sever him from her life forever. Like the sharp, clean rip of a scab from a healing wound.
It wasn’t as if she’d done anything wrong, so what on earth could he do?
Arrest her for mannequin murder?
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Cold Case, Warm Heart
About Cold Case, Warm Heart:
Three deaths, one clue and twenty-four hours before it’s too late. . .
Homicide detective Calamity Dresden has twenty-four hours to catch a killer before he kills again and disappears underground. Estranged lover Sebastian Rourke wants justice for his murdered father and every other victim of Melbourne’s sadistic Trifecta Terror.
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But when the two are forced to team up and danger closes in, can they keep their minds on the case and their hands off each other?
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