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    With a shoulder propped against the bathroom doorway, Jacobs watched as Grace lost her fight to remain conscious. Her eyes were sliding closed now, but she hadn’t even been aware of her surroundings for the last ten minutes.
    He was amazed that she’d managed the task of showering.
    Her respiration became increasingly shallow, recalling Jacobs to the reason he was sharing her room. Moving forward, he efficiently attached a cardiac monitor to her unconscious form. Her flesh was icy cold. He pulled the blankets off the second bed and tucked them up to her chin before flipping the heater in the room onto its highest setting.
    Considering the information displayed on the screen, Jacobs slowly nodded approval. The unit had a shrill alarm that would alert him if her heart stopped. It was an assurance he needed tonight.
    He had been ignoring certain facts lately. Her solo mission was just another link in a chain. Depression caught up with the strongest of men. In a Ranger, it could nose dive into suicide.
    He just hadn’t wanted to see that Grace was so far gone as to leave her unit behind. That wasn’t a mistake. Grace simply didn’t care.
    Well, he was going to have to find a way to change that. Death wasn’t the worst thing that could have happened. A true psychic was worth a fortune on the world market. Especially one with Grace’s success rate.
    The woman was a bloodhound. She had been just sixteen the first time he witnessed her track someone down using nothing more than a wedding ring. Watching her wield that skill never ceased to amaze him. When given enough personal property, she never failed.
    Jacobs shifted himself away from the bed and headed for the shower. He’d been wrong about how deeply she was into her depression.
    His commanding officer kept a lot of pressure on them to stick to military matters. But even Colonel Turvel had suggested that taking the Heeley case would be a good change of scenery. After all, finding a kid could put a grin on the most hardened of faces.
    Jacobs had known Paige Heeley wouldn’t be enough, but it was a place to start.
     
     
    “Another night behind bars?” Sergeant Jenson asked mockingly from the cell-block desk.
    “Your concern for my moral decline is heartwarming.”
    Sergeant Jenson sent his boss a mock salute in response. Brice simply grinned on his way out of the holding area. He was spending far too many nights on the cot in this holding cell. During the Heeley case, it had almost become his bedroom. Well, he’d make it home tonight. The thought of his own bed brought a full smile to his face.
    That smile deepened into something more predatory as he considered his prime objective for the day.
    Someone had abducted one of his citizens. Brice had a holding cell picked out for the guilty party. There was no way he intended to allow another family to become the target of this monster. Especially when the means to tracking the criminal down sat twelve miles down the road.
    If that woman could find Paige, maybe she could use her methods to find the abductor.
    Beyond that, Brice was curious to see if that female was any less abrasive by the light of day. She’d bared her claws quite freely last night. That idea brought a slow smile of appreciation to his face.
    Her rejection stirred something inside him. Brice let his memory recall exactly how she’d felt under him. It had been pure pleasure to feel her nipples against his chest. It would have been better to taste them. Pull them into his mouth and lick them until she wrapped those strong legs around him in surrender.
    Pulling into the motel parking lot, Brice released the fantasy. The first order of capturing her would be to keep her in Benton County.
    Which was pretty much impossible, but he liked a good challenge.
    His sarcasm caught him off-guard. Like a lot of things about Grace. Maybe he was just enchanted by the idea of the impossible. In which case, he was being an ass.
    But he just couldn’t shake