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“I got a call from the woman I met the night I was taken,” she whispered.

“What?” Vinnie pulled back to look at her.

She worried her lip and nodded.

“Who is she? What did she want?”

“I don’t know her name. I know she was someone I’d spoken to more than once, but I don’t know her name. She asked if we could meet tonight.”

“Tonight?” Vinnie barked. He jerked his emotions back. Lorelei was an FBI Agent. She was strong and smart and tough. His desire to protect her was because he loved her, but she didn’t need his protection, and he needed to remember that.

Lorelei nodded and looked at the phone in her hand. “In an hour.”

“Are you going to meet her?”

Lorelei nodded. “I have to. She said she has information for me.” She looked up at him, her eyes wide as though really seeing him for the first time since he walked in the door. “Will you come with me?”

Vinnie nodded quickly, fighting the relieved sigh that filled him. “Yes. Of course. We should probably call Adam, too.”

Lorelei shook her head. “No. She’s easily spooked. If she even sees you, I think she’ll take off.”

“What’s her story?”

Lorelei stared off at the coffee table. “I don’t know. From what I remembered, she is paranoid and always thinks someone is after her. The night I was taken, she thought someone was following her.”

“She called you about that?”

“No, she called me because she saw Edie at a house down the street from her apartment.”

“She what?” Vinnie gasped. As far as he knew, Edie Warren as at Adam and Raina’s wedding the night Lorelei disappeared.

“She said it was months before, but that she didn’t know it was Edie until after she was out. There were other women there, Vinnie.”

“Adam needs to know about this. Do you know where that was?”

Lorelei nodded. “She told me the address. It was in my phone, but obviously, they didn’t let me keep that. Apparently, it wasn’t backed up before it was destroyed.”

“Neither was the woman’s contact information, or they would have talked to her. No one ever knew who you met that night.”

“Then I think it’s time we go find out.”

Lorelei drove, not wanting the woman to know someone was with her when she arrived. Vinnie hid in the backseat when they pulled into the parking lot, making sure he wasn’t seen by anyone who might be there.

Lorelei’s heart raced as she got out of the SUV and made her way around the building to the bench under the trees. The plan was for Vinnie to follow her after two minutes and to hide in the shrubbery that surrounded the building. It would give him a view of the meeting but would also keep his location concealed.

Five minutes after Lorelei sat down, the woman came out of the darkness like she did before. Her jeans and black tee were similar to what Lorelei remembered before. Her dark hair was tied up in a ponytail. Her face was pale, almost ghostly in the darkness.

“Are you here alone?” the woman asked.

“I made sure I wasn’t followed. I want to protect you.”

“But you don’t remember me?”

Lorelei shook her head. “Not entirely. What new information did you have to share with me?”

The woman didn’t speak for a moment, staring at Lorelei with her head tilted to the side. Studying her. “Where were you taken?”

Lorelei sat up straighter. “Excuse me?”




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