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Chapters (63)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter One
  4. Chapter Two
  5. Chapter Three
  6. Chapter Four
  7. Chapter Five
  8. Chapter Six
  9. Chapter Seven
  10. Chapter Eight
  11. Chapter Nine
  12. Chapter Ten
  13. Chapter Eleven
  14. Chapter Twelve
  15. Chapter Thirteen
  16. Chapter Fourteen
  17. Chapter Fifteen
  18. Chapter Sixteen
  19. Chapter Seventeen
  20. Chapter Eighteen
  21. Chapter Nineteen
  22. Chapter Twenty
  23. Chapter Twenty-One
  24. Chapter Twenty-Two
  25. Chapter Twenty-Three
  26. Chapter Twenty-Four
  27. Chapter Twenty-Five
  28. Chapter Twenty-Six
  29. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  30. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  31. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  32. Chapter Thirty
  33. Chapter Thirty-One
  34. Chapter Thirty-Two
  35. Chapter Thirty-Three
  36. Chapter Thirty-Four
  37. Chapter Thirty-Five
  38. Chapter Thirty-Six
  39. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  40. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  41. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  42. Chapter Forty
  43. Chapter Forty-One
  44. Chapter Forty-Two
  45. Chapter Forty-Three
  46. Chapter Forty-Four
  47. Chapter Forty-Five
  48. Chapter Forty-Six
  49. Chapter Forty-Seven
  50. Chapter Forty-Eight
  51. Chapter Forty-Nine
  52. Chapter Fifty
  53. Chapter Fifty-One
  54. Chapter Fifty-Two
  55. Chapter Fifty-Three
  56. Chapter Fifty-Four
  57. Chapter Fifty-Five
  58. Chapter Fifty-Six
  59. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  60. A letter from Charly
  61. Acknowledgements
  62. About the Author
  63. Also by Charly Cox

Cord chuckled and then almost instantly paled, and Alyssa knew he’d momentarily flashed forward to his own future, if he and Sara were to have girls. She tugged at his sleeve. ‘Let’s go check out Addis’s room.’

It was a typical teenager’s room with a hastily made bed and jeans and blouses draped over the footboard, as well as the chair in the corner which also happened to be harboring five mismatched shoes beneath it. Photographs tucked into the mirror’s frame drew Alyssa’s attention. Moving closer, she studied each image. Most were of Addis and Emerson, but what she found most telling was the series of professional eight-by-ten glossies consisting of Grace, Gabriel, and Addis arranged in a floral pattern on the wall. Missing from all of them – and in fact from any picture in the room – was Lydia Kensington. She pulled out her phone and opened her camera, hitting record as she slowly captured a video of all the pictures, unable to stop wondering if she was wrong, if it was Lydia who’d been the intended target.

Regardless, there was one thing Alyssa kept coming back to. Based on the macabre scene in the kitchen, it was clear Addis and Emerson were likely in the hands of an unpredictable killer, meaning it was imperative they find the girls before the man snapped again.

If he hadn’t already.

Chapter Four

Thursday, October 3

Adam Campbell paced from one end of the bedroom to the other, alternating between pulling at his hair, wringing his shaky hands, and wiping the sweat rolling down his neck and soaking the back of his shirt, all while trying to ignore the throbbing pain in his swelling wrist where he’d caught it on the table in Gabriel Kensington’s office. From the second Alex had dropped him off with the order to shower and go to bed, he’d fought back against the rising, suffocating panic.

He was a football player with a promising career in front of him, not a criminal. Now, he wasn’t just a criminal, he was an accomplice to a double homicide.

Alex had insisted over and over that there was nothing to tie either one of them to the crime, but what Adam hadn’t been able to confess was that he was missing his favorite red beanie, the one with the initials A.C. sewn into the front right next to the university’s howling Lobos logo. For the life of him, he couldn’t recall if he’d been wearing it at the Kensingtons’, or if he’d left it in Alex’s truck, or if he’d just managed to misplace it somewhere completely unrelated.