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    While they were waiting, Boyd gave Drake his cellular phone number. “For now, I’m going to stay in the background. I’ll let her contact you when she hears from her aunt, then you contact me. Because my cell phone isn’t a secure line, ask me out to dinner like we’re old friends. That will be my signal to contact with officer Polinari.
    â€œYou’re not going to tap her phone and try to trace Leona’s call when it comes in?” Drake asked.
    â€œNo. I figure Garduchi will already have her place wired by now and I don’t want him to know we know she’s been contacted. I want him to think she’s keeping her aunt’s call in the family, so to speak.”
    â€œGood idea.”
    Entering with the file, Rebecca eyed Boyd with open curiosity.
    â€œHave you told anybody about the FBI visiting me?” Drake asked as he accepted the file.
    â€œJust Katrina,” she replied, her gaze shifted to the file. “You think she’s involved somehow?”
    â€œShe’s Leona’s niece. She might be contacted.”
    Good. Drake was playing this one close to the belt, Boyd noted. The fewer people who knew what was going on, the better.
    â€œI don’t want you to say anything about the FBI being here or about them talking to Katrina or taking a look at her file,” Drake ordered. “You got that?”
    â€œI wouldn’t have been your secretary for ten years if I couldn’t keep my mouth shut,” she snapped back, clearly upset about being accused of possibly gossiping.
    Boyd also noted that the secretary didn’t say anything in support of Katrina. In fact, there had been an edge in her voice that suggested she thought the lady cop could be right in the middle of whatever was going on.
    And she’d be right. He just wished he knew which side Officer Polenari was really on. Thanking Drake for his help, he headed back to the hillside.
    Lewis had seniority but Boyd wanted this assignment. He’d always thought of Lewis as being somewhat naive where women were concerned, and that could prove dangerous in this situation. By the time he joined his partner, he’d planned out his argument for being the one to pick up Leona.
    â€œThey’ve already verified my identity,” he said when he finished filling Lewis in on the details. “Besides, as senior officer, you should be here to coordinate the teams keeping an eye on Garduchi.”
    Lewis grinned. “She even prettier up close?”
    Boyd scowled. “Pretty as a copperhead basking in the sun.”
    Approval showed on Lewis’s face. “Ever the cynic. Good. That’ll keep you alive.” His expression darkened. “But I don’t like the idea of you going alone.”
    â€œThat’s one of Leona’s stipulations. We don’t want her to balk.”
    â€œAll right,” Lewis agreed grudgingly. “But watch your back.”
    â€œI always do.”
    Lewis still didn’t look happy. “I’m counting on your mother’s Apache blood to give you an edge.”
    â€œI’ll be fine,” Boyd assured him.

Chapter 3
    A lthough Boyd’s original plan was to stay away from Officer Polenari until contact with her aunt was made, the more he thought about this, the less he liked it. Not only was there the possibility that Garduchi’s protection wasn’t enough to keep money-hungry bounty hunters away from her or that outside talent might not even get the word that Garduchi didn’t want her touched, but Garduchi might decide that he should keep her by his side.
    Or, Katrina Polenari could have a plan of her own. When she discovered he was on to her, she could have made up the story about her aunt wanting to come in. She could be planning to disappear just like her aunt and join up with Leona so the two of them could enjoy the money Leona had skimmed from Garduchi.
    Or, maybe inside she was cold as ice like her father