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kidnapping.  She returned to high school and graduated with the same high grades she had before.  From the outside, she appeared to be doing well.  Alexander knew looks c ould be deceiving.
    Then something happened.  It’s not clear what it was that caused the change in Kat, but shortly after she graduated high school and started working at a coffee shop , she abruptly quit.  Apparently she disappeared from sight, rarely leaving her apartment.  Did her memories catch up with her?  Alexander doubted she just one day woke up and realized she was afraid of everything.  This behavior continued for four more years until, again, Kat swung to the other end of the spectrum.
    This was around the time when she began training with Dane.  There was a gun registered to her during this time as well as a new dog, a highly trained dog.  The Rottweiler Alexander had seen her with at the gym.  She also started working again, this time as a cocktail waitress at The Garden of Eden.  If there was a sleazier casino in this city, Alexander didn’t know about it.
    What w as happening in her life every few years to cause her behavior to so drastically change?  Of course, because of what had happened to her, a case could be made for simple mental instability.  But the woman who had locked eyes with him across the gym seemed incredibly stable.
    As Alexander read on, he found the answer to his question.  Maybe not the what that had prompted her to act as she did now, but definitely the why .  Gil’s sources had relayed several reports of Kat asking questions around town.  Questions that indicated she was picking up the investigation the police had so easily dropped.
    He may not understand the motivations of women in general, but Alexander did understand the need for revenge.  Kat Rossi was looking for the man who hurt her, and he doubted she planned to turn him over to the police when she found him.
    The rest of the file contained data on her financials.  It seemed she made decent money for a cocktail waitress, no doubt because of her looks, but she spent very little of it.  Aside from the basics as well as payments to Dane for training, Kat didn’t spend frivolously.  Peering at the monthly payments to Dane, Alexander frowned.  Either he was getting shafted, or Dane had a soft spot for damaged young women.
    The one thing Alexander took away from her financial information was that she could afford to move away from the neighborhood where her pain lived and breathed, but yet she stayed.  Was that part of her plan to find her attacker?
    Alexander stowed the file in his bottom desk drawer and leaned back in his leather chair.  Dane and Luke had been right.  She was likely more trouble than she was worth.  And given her history, she was unlikely to accept the sort of arrangement he had planned on proposing.  There was no record of her dating anyone, even casually, so the probability of her jumping into a casual yet intimate relationship with him was extremely low.
    He should shred the file and forget he had ever heard the name Kat Rossi.  But there was something about her that he couldn’t let go.  The way her bright alert eyes had held his gaze, unwavering and not intimidated in the least.  Now that he knew what she had gone through and that she was seeking her own justice, she was even more appealing.  Glancing down at the drawer that held the sordid details of her short life, Alexander knew he had to know more.  To know her.
    Exactly thirty minutes after he had his calls held, his intercom buzzed.  Janice was nothing if not punctual.
    “Mr. Petrovsky?” Janice’s clipped efficient tone echoed through his empty office.
    “Yes, Janice.”
    “I need to confirm your attendance at the Mayor’s charity gala on Saturday.  Will you be attending?  And will you be taking a date?”
    Alexander paused before replying, a plan already formulating in his head.   “Yes, I will be attending.  And, yes, I will be taking a