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Chapters (64)
  1. Cover
  2. PRAISE FOR JANICE CANTORE
  3. Map of Rogue’s Hollow
  4. Dedication
  5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  6. Epigraph
  7. PROLOGUE
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  61. EPILOGUE
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  63. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  64. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Tami better have something useful to tell him because he wanted to wrap this up before Gage arrived and messed everything up.

Ice crushed his can and placed it in the recycle bag. He would find her—he was certain. And he’d end the threat to his friend Cyrus. Then disappear with his new wealth.

22

“Chief, I am so sorry.” A mortified Bronwyn greeted Tess and brought her into the house. “Our security is more concerned with keeping people from getting in, not people getting out. But there’s no excuse. Chevy never should have been able to walk away.”

“I understand, and I don’t really blame you.” Tess cast a glance to the living room, where Oliver, Mia, Chevy, and Dr. Peel were skyping with Agent Bass. It was heated at times, with Chevy acting thirteen and petulant. She kept insisting that she was just as much a prisoner here as she was in Mesa. If she’d truly been rescued, why didn’t she really have freedom?

“Takano should have been more involved with her from the get-go. Chevy is her responsibility,” Tess said.

“In my home she’s my responsibility,” Bronwyn countered. “Do you think Bass will move her?”

“He should. Her cover was just blown to smithereens. But I don’t think he has any place to move her to.”

Tess was the one who had called Bass to tell him what happened.

“My hands are tied. We’re waiting on the next legal maneuver. Right now, Beck appears to be stalling. I’ll know more after the next pretrial hearing.” Bass didn’t sound as confident as he had the last time Tess spoke to him.

“If I were paranoid,” she told Bronwyn, “I’d think Beck’s tactics are a purposeful stall so that he can locate Chevy and have her taken out of the picture.”

“And her walking out like she did . . .”

“Broadcast that she was here in Rogue’s Hollow,” Tess finished Bronwyn’s thought. She glanced to the living room as the conversation shifted. Mia closed the laptop, and she and Dr. Peel bracketed Chevy as a deep, quiet conversation began among the three.

Oliver got up from the couch and joined Tess and Bronwyn. “Agent Bass is not happy.” He shrugged. “But Chevy has a point. She’s young; it’s difficult to have her movements so restricted after making an escape from what was, essentially, slavery.”

He held Tess’s gaze. She knew he’d fall on the side of forgiving the girl for jeopardizing her situation. Tess was less sympathetic.