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Chapters (45)
  1. Also by
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. CHAPTER ONE
  5. CHAPTER TWO
  6. CHAPTER THREE
  7. CHAPTER FOUR
  8. CHAPTER FIVE
  9. CHAPTER SIX
  10. CHAPTER SEVEN
  11. CHAPTER EIGHT
  12. CHAPTER NINE
  13. CHAPTER TEN
  14. CHAPTER ELEVEN
  15. CHAPTER TWELVE
  16. CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  17. CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  18. CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  19. CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  20. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  21. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
  22. CHAPTER NINETEEN
  23. CHAPTER TWENTY
  24. CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
  25. CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
  26. CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
  27. CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
  28. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
  29. CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
  30. CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
  31. CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
  32. CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
  33. CHAPTER THIRTY
  34. CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE
  35. CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
  36. CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
  37. CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR
  38. CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE
  39. CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX
  40. CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN
  41. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT
  42. CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
  43. CHAPTER FORTY
  44. CHAPTER FORTY-ONE
  45. EPILOGUE

The elevator doors parted. Edge hurried down the hall and started pounding on Skye’s door. When she didn’t answer, he really started to worry. She was an investigator. She had enemies.

“Skye! It’s Edge! Are you in there?” And some of Daniel Henson’s goons were still on the loose. “Skye!” He hurried back down the corridor, dialing her cell again, getting no answer, cursing the elevator when it stopped on the sixth floor to pick up a passenger.

Finally, he reached the lobby and hurried over to the guard at the front desk. “I need to check on Skye Delaney. Apartment 815. I need to get in, make sure she’s okay. She’s had trouble before.”

The guard rose from behind his desk, a gray-haired guy with a paunch over his belt. “Yeah, I heard.” He ambled toward the elevator, punched the button, and whisked them back upstairs.

The guard let him into the apartment, but a hurried search told Edge she wasn’t there, and there was no sign of trouble.

Where the hell was she?

The Nighthawk office was his next stop. It wouldn’t be unusual for her to work late. Anxiety welled in his chest. Or maybe she just didn’t want to see him. Going to the party would force them together. Maybe she had decided he wasn’t worth the trouble.

Either way, he had to know. Edge picked up his pace.

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

CHAPTER FORTY-ONE

SKYE SAT ON THE FLOOR OF THE OFFICE, HER BACK BRACED AGAINST her oak desk, her legs curled beneath her, her bad leg aching. Duct tape cut into her wrists, which were bound behind her back. Her lip was cut and bleeding, a painful bruise forming on her cheek.

Klaus Mahler loomed over her, his arms and shoulders bulging with muscle. The Viking. The guy Daniel Henson had picked for Callie to marry.

Klaus’s big hand flew out and slapped her hard enough to make her ears ring. “I’m not going to ask you again. Where is she?”

Skye didn’t answer. She glanced at the other man in the office. Klaus called him Webb. Webb Rankin hadn’t been found after he’d fled the Children of the Sun compound, but there was an arrest warrant out on him for armed robbery. He was also a person of interest in the death of Sarah Simmons.

But Klaus had been arrested. How had he gotten out of jail?

Seconds ticked past. So far, Skye had refused to answer. No way was she letting this animal get his hands on her sister again.

Klaus’s wide palm connected with her cheek, knocking her into the side of the desk, and pain shot into her shoulder. “You’re pushing your luck, lady.”

“Go to hell, Klaus.”