Dangerous Attraction: Part Three (Aegis Group) Read Online Free Page A

the transient murders were a year later, after his accident. The women represent who he really is, the men are his way of expressing his rage. It’s in how he disposes of the bodies. The women are left. He wants them found because they’re special. The men? They’re trash. He tosses them out. He’s going to zero in on Wendy, and there isn’t an army out there that will stop him.”
    “What about what Wendy said? That he’s copying someone?” Bliss glanced between them, her nose scrunched up.
    “If he’s copying someone, it’s obscure enough we can’t place them.” Jade sighed and glared at the floor.
    “Where is Wendy?” Bliss turned to Travis. “You know I’m right. She’ll listen to me. Remember how scared she was?”
    Connor glanced from Bliss to Travis.
    “I’ll take you,” Connor said.
    “I’m riding with you.” Travis wasn’t about to let her out of his sight.
    “If we do that, we’re putting everything he wants in one location.” Ryan scrubbed his hand across his face.
    “He hasn’t yet taken on more than two people.” Jade gestured to another list scrawled on a dry-erase board. “Ones and twos, he’ll attack one and use them to control the other. We saw that with Don, and preliminary reports on several identified remains support that theory. Don’t go off on your own and he won’t attack.”
    “Let’s go then.” Connor grabbed his jacket.
    Travis didn’t like it, but he was completely biased. Still, he grabbed Bliss’ jacket, borrowed another that wasn’t soaked with blood, and joined the small team heading to waylay Grayson’s hideout.
    “Do I want to know how you guys found her?” Bliss asked. She sat between him and Dimitri, about as safe and protected as he could make her.
    “The baby.” Travis stared out of the passenger window.
    “Paul?”
    “Yeah. He gets some kind of frou-frou fancy baby formula. Lali and Gavin looked for recent purchases. Then they followed the money.”
    “Someone’s getting in trouble,” Connor said from the driver’s seat.
    “Why?” Bliss’ brow wrinkled.
    “Because a CIA agent in the field should be harder to identify. His guy nailed the fella doing the buying.” Connor thumbed at Travis.
    “Oh. Then...if it was that easy for them to find Wendy, it’ll be just as easy for Daniel?” Bliss wrapped her hand around his and squeezed. She was holding it together so well, it was hard to remember this was all new for her.
    “Not as easy, but yeah, that’s what we’re afraid of. We know he’s got mad technical ability, but Lali was never able to track down where his stuff was kept or where the cameras transmitted to. He had another location, somewhere not at his house.” Connor merged onto the highway and headed south.
    Twenty minutes later they pulled into another gated, upscale community. Connor flashed his badge to gain entry and navigated them around to a sprawling, three-story abode that was just slightly less opulent than the home Grayson already owned.
    A man trimming perfect hedges turned around and stared at the minivan. Security. They weren’t that discreet. But they had protected Wendy from another kidnapping. Maybe that’s what Bliss needed. Round-the-clock watchdogs, but that wasn’t any way to live. They had to stop this, soon, before someone that wasn’t Daniel got killed.
    Bliss pushed past the man stationed at the door and glanced around the sparkling marble entry.
    “Bliss?” Wendy’s voice echoed, intermingled with the sounds of a TV and other people speaking.
    “Where are you?” Bliss peered into the two rooms on either side, but they were empty.
    Wendy strode through a grandiose arch leading to the rest of the home, baby Paul perched on her hip. Bliss stared, blinked, and couldn’t believe her eyes. It was a subtle transformation, something a casual observer or a stranger wouldn’t notice, but Bliss did. It was Wendy’s smile, the color of her cheeks, a slight bounce in her step.
    “Oh, Bliss!”