Dangerous Attraction: Part Two (Aegis Group) Read Online Free

his last wife.
    Wendy.
    He’d reclaim her someday, but not today.
    A metallic clang interrupted his giddy daydreaming.
    He frowned and picked up the pace, kicking up snow as he closed in on the Winnebago.
    The girl.
    She was bound to be a problem. Nothing like her sweet sister.
    He tossed the cans down and jerked the door open. The bench top to the cage rattled. Bliss. No, he had to stop thinking of her like that. She was an object. A thing.
    His newest test subject had her feet pulled up, as if to kick the lid. No doubt that’s what he’d heard.
    Daniel stomped into the RV, leaving clumps of snow on the floor in his wake. It was beyond time to get her settled and out of his way. It would be interesting to see how she survived in this weather, what she could stand.
    He unlocked the lid and grabbed a handful of her hair.
    “No! No, wait!” She grunted and clutched his wrist as he hauled her to her feet.
    The nice thing about being out this far was that there was no one around to hear her scream.
    She scratched at his gloves and kicked his ankle, but otherwise she was too weak and clumsy from multiple doses of tranquilizers.
    He scooped a length of chain out from under the passenger seat before dragging the female subject outside.
    “The air smells fresher here,” he said, pausing for a second to appreciate it.
    “Kill me already,” the subject said.
    He glanced at her but didn’t respond. Her name was already fading from memory. She was no longer a person, or even a thing with feelings. She was part of his experiment. Part of his great test to figure out just how much a human body could withstand.
    Daniel led the subject all the way back to the A-frame and secured his latest pet to the tree and then to the subject by way of a pair of handcuffs. He pointed at the shelter.
    “Do your best to not die.”
    Yet.
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    3.
    “T ravis, man, you gotta eat something.” Ethan plopped a bag of fast food down on the hotel room desk.
    Travis glanced at it.
    He’d had burgers with Bliss yesterday. They’d talked about sex and vibrators. He hadn’t cared they were in a crowded, family establishment. One day with her and now it felt as if he were missing a crucial part of himself.
    “Not hungry,” he said.
    Travis tossed his clothes into his suitcase and carefully gathered his files while his Aegis Group co-workers, Ethan and Mason, ate. They had their own adjoining rooms, but hadn’t let him be since returning to the hotel.
    “Where you going?” the kid, Mason, asked. He was the newest Aegis recruit, barely out of the SEALs.
    “Don’t know yet.” Travis zipped the duffel bag and pulled his phone out.
    “Where do you think he’s gone?” Ethan asked.
    “Not sure yet, but he’d have somewhere outside of Vegas to run to if he needed. Some of the bodies they identified were from as far away as Flagstaff, so we know he travels. I just don’t know what the Vegas connection is.”
    “What Vegas connection?” Ethan had forgotten his food and now leaned forward.
    “The women. Every one of the women he picks are blonde, born and raised in Vegas, and until Wendy, they’d never had a child. We know he impregnated them, kept them alive until they had the kids, and then killed them. From what Bliss saw, we know he kills and keeps the babies. I’m thinking since he dumped the last two before they carried the babies to term, he just wanted to make sure the women could carry a child.”
    “I think I’m going to be sick.” Mason’s lips curled, but he didn’t go anywhere.
    “Why not set up here? Wait for him to come back, if Vegas is that important to him?” Ethan suggested.
    “No.” Travis shook his head. “He’d keep those women for a year or more if they survived childbirth. If he escapes with Bliss, I don’t think we’d find her.”
    “Okay,” Ethan brushed crumbs off his jeans and gestured to the files on the bed, “So saying he—”
    Travis’ phone lit up, vibrating and ringing on