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with Shriver.”
    “And you’re not the least bit prejudiced.”
    “I know my sister.”
    “Your loyalty is commendable, but it’s clear you have a huge blind spot where your twin is concerned. Look at the evidence. Cassie has romanticized Shriver and she’s picturing herself living some kind of outlaw, movie star lifestyle.”
    Okay, so he was sorry he’d ever recruited Cassie. But he wasn’t going to let Maddie dream up some fanciful scenario that ignored the truth in favor of exonerating her sister. If he expressed regret, she might seize upon that as a loophole she could exploit.
    Maddie shook her head. “You’re wrong. Shriver has kidnapped her. I feel it in my bones.”
    “All I want is to see justice done. If Shriver kidnapped your sister, then you’ll be the first to receive an apology. In the meantime, you’re delaying me from my flight. If you’ll excuse me.” He turned back toward the security scanners.
    She marched right along behind him. He stopped and she plowed into his back. He took her by the wrist and pulled her around to face him.
    “You cannot come to Grand Cayman with me. Got it? The matter is not open for discussion.”
    “It’s a free country, bub, I can go anywhere I want.”
    “And I could have you arrested for interfering with an officer of the law.”
    “You wouldn’t dare.” She jerked her wrist away from him and sank her hands on her hips. Her steely-eyed gaze challenged him to make good on his threat.
    Dammit. Why did he have to admire her spunk and the open way she defied him? No covert sneaking around for this woman. If she was half this feisty in the bedroom, look out.
    Ah, but then a slight quiver of her lower lip gave her away. She wasn’t nearly as self-confident as she wanted him to believe, but she was sure giving it hell.
    “Look,” he relented. “I understand your concern for your sister. I promise I’ll give Cassie the benefit of the doubt.”
    “I’m coming with you,” she repeated, enunciating each word clearly as if speaking to a particularly slow child.
    “You’re not.”
    “I am.”
    “Please don’t make me go over there and ask those security guards to detain you. Neither one of us needs the hassle.”
    She didn’t say anything for a long moment. Finally she sucked in a deep breath and whispered, “Okay, fine, have it your way.”
    Maddie spun around, but her heel must have caught on something. She teetered precariously, then stumbled against him, reaching out with both hands to grab his jacket lapel to keep from falling.
    The brim of her hat smashed him in the chin. Her firm, high breasts grazed his arm.
    At the feel of her palms against his chest, instant heat pricked his groin. His body’s inappropriate response to their physical contact irritated him. He battled against his lust.
    It was so weird that she turned him on when her identical twin sister did not. What was that all about?
    “Sorry,” she mumbled, quickly righting herself, and then without another word turned and sashayed off.
    Watching her go, he was unsettled to discover he felt disappointed and it took him a minute or two to figure out why. It was because she’d given up so easily. He’d been looking forward to more of a fight.
    Flustered, he shouldered his carry-on and moved once again toward the scanners. The line had grown longer since his encounter with Maddie. Impatiently, he glanced at his watch. He had less than ten minutes to board the plane.
    He shifted his weight from foot to foot and rolled his eyes when a lady with tons of gold jewelry kept setting off the alarm. Finally, his turn came.
    Just as he went to remove his duty weapon from his shoulder holster and check it in, an armed security guard tapped him on the collarbone. “Excuse me, sir, if you could just step over here.”
    What now?
    He followed the guard to a small, enclosed area where two uniformed Dallas police officers stood, guns drawn.
    What in hell . . . ?
    “Hands on your head,” one of the