she hacked into my computer.”
Jenna asked, “You know for a fact she had them?”
J.D. nodded. “We know she sent the first page to Zendaris as proof. We confiscated that computer, but that’s all she had on there—the first page.”
“So where’s the rest?”
“While you two head off on your European vacation, I’m going back to D.C., where Abby lived before she took up residence in her twin’s life.” J.D. hoisted up to his elbows. “I’m going to find those plans, and then Gage is going to find Zendaris.”
Cade laced his fingers with Jenna’s and kissed her pursed mouth. He wanted to kiss away her worries forever. “If anyone can do this, Prospero Team Three can.”
“Look, Daddy!” Gavin was dangling by one arm from the top of the slide like a monkey.
Cade knocked J.D.’s legs from the bench with a well-aimed kick. “You look too comfortable. Go do your duty as an honorary uncle.”
J.D. eyed him and Jenna through half-closed lids as he hoisted himself off the bench. “I can take a hint.”
While J.D. loped toward the slide, Cade turned to Jenna and cupped her face in his hands. “I can’t wait to start our lives together, even if that life begins in Europe.”
She cinched his wrists with her fingers and met his gaze. “That life began the moment I met you, Cade Stark. You were always the man for me.”
“Even when you lost faith in me?”
“I never lost faith in you—could’ve strangled you for doing the right thing when you left us to keep the secret of Gavin’s birth from Zendaris, but never lost faith in you.”
“You’ll teach me to be a good father.”
Turning her head, she laid her lips against his palm. “You don’t need lessons. All Gavin needs is your love and protection, and you’ve provided that over and over.”
And then, even with his son hooting and hollering at them, Cade took his wife in his arms and kissed her long and deep.
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Chapter One
Three months later
“Dugan is out.”
Miles’s fingers tightened around his cell phone as he wheeled his SUV around and headed toward the station. “What?”
His superior, Lieutenant Hammond, didn’t sound happy. “Based on the Kelly woman’s murder and some technicality with the chain of evidence when they’d searched the man’s place, Dugan’s lawyer got his conviction overturned.”
The past few weeks of tracking down clues and false leads day and night taunted him. He released a string of expletives.
Hammond cleared his throat. “If we’d found evidence connecting Dugan to a partner, maybe things would have gone differently, but...”
Hammond let the sentence trail off, but Miles silently finished for him. If he and Mason had found such evidence, Dugan would still be in a cell. And the world would be a safer place.
But they’d failed.
The day Dugan’s verdict was read flashed back. Dugan’s threat resounded in his head—you’ll pay.
“Now that he’s back on the streets—”
“I know. He’s going to kill again,” Miles said. And he’s probably coming after me.
His cell phone chirped, and he glanced at the caller ID. Marie’s number.
Damn, she was probably on his case for working again last night and missing dinner with Timmy. He’d thought he might have found a lead on the copycat, but instead he’d only chased his own tail.
The phone chirped again.
You’ll pay.
Panic suddenly seized him, cutting off his breath. Dammit...what if payback meant coming after his family?
“I have to go, Hammond.” Sweat beaded on his neck as he connected the call. “Hello?”
Husky breathing filled the line, then a scream pierced the receiver.
He clenched the steering wheel with a white-knuckled grip. He had to clear his throat to speak. “Marie?” God, tell me you’re there....
But the sudden silence sent a chill up his spine.
“Marie, Timmy?”
More breathing, this time followed by a husky laugh that sounded sinister, threatening...evil.
Dear God, no...
Dugan was at Marie’s house.
He pressed the accelerator, his heart hammering as he sped around