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someone is downstairs.”
    “I’m staying with you,” Ally said.
    “You’re definitely staying with me,” Jake agreed, arguing with her the furthest thing from his mind. “I don’t think anyone should go anywhere alone until we have some idea where Pritchard is. He could be anywhere.”
    “Agreed,” James said. He glanced at Sophie for confirmation. If anyone was going to put up a fight, it would be her.
    “Okay,” Sophie said, giving in. “I’ll call Peter and set up a meeting. Let’s get all of this stuff packed up. I want Emma safe in her apartment as soon as possible. The best defense is a good offense, and that building is a fortress. That’s the safest place for her.”
    No one bothered calling her on the assertion. They were all thinking the same thing.

Three
    “Grady, I want cameras on every single inch of this building,” James instructed, checking the monitor on his office desk. “Most of it is covered now, but I want backup locations in case someone finds one of the cameras and disables it.”
    “I’m on it,” Grady said, moving toward the storage room. “How many cameras do we have in here?”
    “Plenty,” James answered. “I don’t care if you think you’re going overboard. Put cameras everywhere. I want you to take a monitor home, I’m going to do the same, and we’re going to make sure someone is watching this building at all times.”
    “We should get Maverick down here,” Jake suggested, referring to Hardy Brothers Security’s computer guru. “He might know a few tricks we don’t.”
    “That’s a good idea,” James said. “Get on that. Tell him to get his scrawny butt down here. I don’t care what video game he’s playing today. I’ll make it worth his while.”
    “He’ll probably come just to see the women,” Jake said, pulling his cell phone out of his pocket. “You know how he likes to drool over them.”
    “I don’t care how you get him down here,” James said. “I want him here in twenty minutes.”
    “Speaking of the women, how do you expect to keep them upstairs while we handle all of this?” Grady asked, walking out of the storage room with an armful of cameras. “Sophie is enraged. She’s going to be hard to wrangle.”
    “No offense to you, but I’m not particularly worried about Sophie,” James admitted. “Pritchard is going to go after Emma first. That’s a given. When he realizes he can’t get to her, he’s going to try to grab one of the other women and use her as leverage. Sophie is the last one on that list he’s going to want to risk going after. He’s not an idiot. He’ll figure out who she is and exactly who he’d have on his tail if he tried to touch her.”
    “I hope Peter can help us,” Grady said, his face somber. “If Peter’s men could get their hands on Pritchard before the police … .”
    James knew what he was insinuating. “No one is going to cry if Lance Pritchard shows up dead in the Detroit River,” he said. “We have to find him first.”
    Jake shoved his phone into his pocket as he walked back into the office. “Maverick is on his way,” he said. “He’s not happy about it, but he’s coming. I told him it was an emergency. I wasn’t sure how much you wanted him to know about Pritchard … and why he’ll be coming after Emma.”
    “We’re going to have to tell him everything,” James replied, grim. “He’ll be more likely to work his ass off if he knows the real stakes. He’s not so tactless he would say something to Emma. If he does … well … I’ll thump him for good measure.”
    Jake smirked. “Do you want to leave Finn upstairs with the women while we do this, or do you want him to come down and help?”
    “Leave him up there,” James answered. “Emma is a mess and Finn is the only one who can make her feel better. The women will do their best, but they can’t understand Emma’s terror. They have no basis for extrapolation because they never dealt with the horrors she did as a