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man for so long, but he seemed to have tipped her hormones into overdrive, and she just wanted to reach over and press her lips against his.
    OK, so maybe he secreted some kind of pheromone that lured women into his arms. She had, after all, seen him lean in and kiss the neighbor. How many other women let him kiss them?
    How many let him bed them? Lots, she had no doubt. No doubt at all.
    “You could drive a little faster,” he said, rudely jerking her out of her daydream.
    “Oh.” She looked in her rear view mirror, and saw the snarl of traffic that had impatiently built up behind her as she drove down the street. Head in the game , she reminded herself.
    “So, you want to tell me everything you know?” he asked, once they were cruising along the highway.
    “Not a lot to tell,” she said. “The debriefing, is very … brief.”
    “Tell me anyway.”
    “OK.” She took a deep breath and tried to focus. This was the bit she hated, recalling the night Sam’s mom had died. “I met Angela a month ago. I was assigned her case; she was about to enter protective custody. You know, the whole change your name, change your appearance thing. Anyway, my boss, Mr. Anderson, the guy you met...”
    “Oh, I remember him, Princess ,” Joel said. He wasn’t teasing her; his expression said he hated the way Mr. Anderson had spoken to her.
    “He’s a good man. He’s worked hard to help a lot of vulnerable people.”
    “Doesn’t give him the right to speak to you like that.”
    “He has nicknames for everyone. It’s his thing.” She sighed. He was good at helping people. So they gave him some leeway with the pet names, always knowing he would have their back whenever he was needed. “She was in a safe-house, but up until that point there had been no threat to her life, so no police protection. Krieg had put her in the hospital with his fists, but she never gave us any reason to believe he would have her killed. She used to brag about him being willing to do anything to get the baby back, but he never made contact, didn’t even try, once they had left. And she liked to brag a lot. A lack of self-worth left her craving attention, I learned to listen to what she said with a filter.”
    “And it’s definitely tied to Krieg? The murder?” he asked.
    “What do you mean?” Chrissie turned to frown at him before fixing her eyes back on the road.
    “Well, is there any other motive?” He shook his head. “Any other person in her past it might have been. Her father? You haven’t mentioned him.”
    “She never knew who her father was. I’m thinking Krieg, because who else is going to break in, kill Angela and then take the baby?” Chrissie asked, trying not to sound defensive.
    “I’m looking at all angles,” Joel said.
    “Krieg beat Angela up. More than once, both while she was pregnant and after Sam was born. He used her, brainwashed her into being his drug mule. But once she had Sam, she wanted a normal life. She didn’t want Sam to experience the life Krieg imposed on them. When she tried to leave, that was when she wound up in hospital, and we got her to safety.”
    “Only it wasn’t safe.”
    “No. She stayed in mostly, followed the rules, dyed her hair, used a different name. No one visited, it was just her and her mom.” Chrissie thought back to the day they moved in, she had gone over to help, Angela had been so excited to be starting again. Unpacking all the new stuff they’d bought for the baby. She was so thrilled with her new wardrobe, she had completely made herself over, even talked about getting a proper job.
    “Spill.”
    She looked at him sharply. “Spill what?”
    “Your expression changed. Something just occurred to you. So tell me.”
    “It’s nothing.”
    “Tell me anyway. Sometimes it’s the nothing that becomes the thing .”
    Chrissie went back over it again, and Joel didn’t push her. “OK. So Angela’s mom didn’t have much money. Waitress by day, occasional prostitute at