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two.”
    “How do you know so soon?”
    “Because nobody uses them anymore. It’s an old style gun, revolver, single action type, with old style bullets. The shooter used two guns, on the last case with the two druggies. But, on this one used the same, single shot type revolver as one of the guns on the last crime.”
    Lainey felt her eyebrows arch. “The same gun?”
    “Won’t know for sure until it gets processed. But, seems that way.” He turned around to face the crime scene, putting himself side by side with Lainey.
    She was starting to enjoy this perk to the job, seeing him on a regular basis. It felt good, almost like a relationship.
    She could smell him, some hint of cologne, yet an all male scent underneath it. “There’s something else,” he said. He eyed her from the corner of his eye, his gaze sweeping down her body.

Chapter Four

    A flash of heat and awareness swept through her. It had been hard to eat this week, with a heightened sense of expectation that she might see him at any time.
    A call could come, from him or dispatch, in the day or in the middle of the night. His voice might ease down the phone line telling her to meet him somewhere.
    She’d slide into jeans and disappear into the night to rendezvous with this attractive male.
    Who’d check her out from the corner of his eye when he thought she wasn’t looking.
    Every nerve ending tingled, alert to his presence.
    Brice half turned toward her, angling his body so that he was just inches from her left arm. The hair on her arms stood up, as if reaching for him.
    An aching desire rose from deep within her, a need for him, to touch him, wrap her arms and entire body around him. Feel his skin, his hands, his mouth on her.
    Damn, she had a bad case of it.
    “The revolver that shot one of the first two guys was the same gun we took off Sean Moseman when we picked him up for Simone’s murder.”
    “What?” She turned full toward him, grabbing one arm. “Are you kidding me?”
    “Nope.” He glanced down at her hand on his arm. A dark sizzle of sexuality sparked in his eyes. He glanced back up to meet her eyes and she felt the connection as a warm heat flowed through her.
    She released his arm and he continued talking as if nothing had just passed between them.
    “The gun was used once before in a robbery. Got a bullet from a convenience store wall. Sean swore up and down he paid a hundred dollars for the gun from some guy who’s since been picked up in Florida for armed robbery. Sean had a witness to the buy of the gun. We couldn’t place him at the scene of the robbery. And he had an alibi. So, the most we could charge him with was concealing a weapon without a permit.”
    “Emm,” Lainey murmured. “And the judge just smiled at us when he was released after Simone’s death, refused to hold him on firearms charges. I remember how the judge said he wasn’t gonna get named in a frivolous lawsuit against a guy who just got let off for murder.”
    Fiery anger erupted through her at the memory of how Sean Moseman had walked out of the jail, getting off on murder.
    “Do you think this is him doing this?”
    “We’ll have to see if we can get a signature of him getting the gun back from the property department, check the video cameras, see if they recorded him picking it up.” He smiled. “If so, we got our man cold.”
    A grin spread across her face, warming her with the expectation of putting Sean Moseman away for good. “Oh man, could he be so stupid?”
    The smile slipped from Brice’s face. “That’s one thing he’s not is stupid. Let’s just hope he was careless, thinking we wouldn’t put two and two together.”
    A gnawing desire chewed at her insides, with the need to finally put that bastard away.
    Brice’s eyes narrowed. “We’ll get him one way or the other.”
    “Why would he be killing these people?”
    Brice shrugged. “The two guys I would say maybe they’d hit on Simone, ticking off Moseman. The woman?” He