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lure him inside, far away from the distraction of Elizabeth. Yeah, he would shit a proverbial brick if she even tried.
    Taking her coffee to the floor with the baby, she kissed his toes and tickled his chubby little legs, trying to forget that she was irritated. As he smiled up at her, the cell phone in her purse began ringing , and he cooed and sucked on his fingers. Digging for it, she hoped it was Callen calling to talk to her, but surprise surprise. It wasn’t.
    Damn it!
    “Hi Grand'mere, how are you today?”
    The older woman spoke into the phone, “Not good Desdemona. Your sister is missing.”
    Her heart started pounding in her chest. “What do you mean she’s missing?”
    “I left to go pick roots and my herbs for the season two weeks ago. I was staying out at the root shack in the deep woods while I was working. I just came back yesterday and there’s no sign of her.”
    “Did you call the police?”
    “I filed a report. I just wanted to tell you.”
    “I’ll come home and help look for her,” she answered, quickly.
    Morgana Adare refused. “You’ll do no such thing. You know how your sister is, and she may just be off with a man.”
    Just like everyone said her mother had done.
    Desdemona knew how that ended. Twenty five years of questions and never to see the woman again. “I’m coming, Grand'mere, and that’s the end of it. I’ll catch a plane and be there later today.”
    “What about your job?”
    “I’ll call in sick today and then I’m scheduled off this weekend. I worked last rotation in the lab. Doctor Leonard will be on call this time.”
    There was hesitation. “Okay, I’ll be back and forth into the swamp. I have to harvest for the fall.”
    Desdemona couldn’t believe her Grand'mere was so calm. It felt like her world was shifting and rotating upside down. The hairs on her neck were standing. The stalker tried to get her back to Cypress Grove in his last note, and now her sister disappears. This screamed bad all around. “See you in a few hours, grand'mere.”
    She went online on her phone and booked a flight and called work, telling them she wasn’t feeling well. It wasn’t exactly a lie, she felt sick to her stomach over all this. The other thing was how she was going to not tell Callen? She was intentionally going to disobey his direct order to not go home alone. He’d made her promise months ago when the stalker had left them the last vicious death threat. Desdemona pinky swore to him, and now she wished she hadn’t. Maybe in the back of her mind, she always knew she never intended to be bossed around into keeping the promise.
    While he was on assignment as Liaison to the Native American Community for the FBI, the last thing he needed was to freak out and find out she was doing exactly what the stalker wanted. The nutjob demanded she come home or the people she loved would die, and here she was doing it. But she had a perfectly good reason…
    Desdemona loved her sister; she and her grand’mere were all that she had left. Well, other than the surrogate family she now had because of her fiancé- a family she didn’t feel like she fit into at all. Her mind was made up, she wasn’t going to even tell Elizabeth, but sneak off like a thief in the night.
    Elizabeth came back downstairs and was dressed.
    “I have to get going,” Desdemona stated, calmly. Hopefully she could go and be back before Callen Whitefox returned next week, and she was due back into work. “Duty calls,” she added, cautiously. Here she just called in sick and was lying to the big boss right to her face. Yeah, she better not get caught. There was so much more on the line now.
    “BBQ on Sunday?” Elizabeth inquired, scooping up her son and kissing him lovingly. “I’ll make you a killer veggie burger,” she offered, knowing her friend was a vegetarian and wouldn’t like the ribs they were planning on making.
    “I can’t . I have some errands to run while Callen is away. But I promise the