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of anger swelled in Mira’s chest, distracting her from thoughts of her soulless father and all the damage he’d caused.
    Adam wasn’t going to trick her so easily. She wasgoing to collect proof that he wasn’t the man he pretended to be, and once she had that, Bella would have no choice but to send him away and find Mira a partner who didn’t remind her of just how gullible she could be.
    She gathered her coat and purse and headed for the door. Only when she was halfway there did she stop. After several long seconds, she turned back to her desk and pulled out her revolver. There was no way to know how Adam would react to her discovering his lies, and she needed to be ready for anything.
    A few minutes later, she drove by his house. Through the plain, functional blinds covering his windows, she could see his shadow moving as he ran.
    All that anger trickled out of her.
    She’d been wrong. He really was still here, not slinking around out in the night, torturing kittens or whatever it was he liked to do in his spare time.
    Her head fell back on the headrest with a thump.
    At this rate, she was never going to find proof that Adam was evil all the way through.
    Which made her wonder . . . what if he wasn’t? What if she was the unreasonable one, hoping to see what she wanted? If that evil streak wasn’t there, she was wasting a hell of a lot of time looking for it.
    She had to remember her real goal. Adam was simply a distraction from finding and helping the people her father had hurt. Even now, while she sat in her car outside of Adam’s house, Corey Lambert was in pain. Suffering.
    She had the power to help him, or at the very least tell him why he felt the things he did, why he couldn’t seem to get his life under control. Maybe the simple relief of knowing that he wasn’t alone would be enough for him to get himself back on track.
    It had worked for others. The lucky few who hadn’t fallen too far to be saved.
    What if tonight was the night Corey cracked? What iftonight was the night he gave in to the urge to do that one unspeakable act for which he’d never forgive himself?
    Mira wasn’t going to sit around and simply hope it didn’t happen. She was going to
do
something.
    Bella would have told her to go knock on Adam’s door and drag him along with her. She would have lectured her that it wasn’t safe to go alone.
    But what Bella didn’t yet realize was that it was far safer to walk into a bad situation alone than it was to go into one with a devil by her side. For all she knew, Adam would turn on her the first chance he got.
    He’d done it before.
    Mira had spent her life trying to prove herself to others. First to her father, then to Bella. It was time to start proving things to herself.
    She was smart. Strong. Determined. And armed. She could handle a conversation with one broken man who couldn’t even manage to keep a job.
    And if she couldn’t, she had no business being in the field at all. Better to know now before she got someone she cared about killed.
    She pulled away from Adam’s house and headed across town. At the first stoplight, she made sure her phone’s tracking system was on and the panic code that would dial her best friend, Clay, was partially keyed in. All she had to do was hit one button, and Clay would come running.
    Now,
he
was a man she could trust. Too bad she’d never felt more for him than she would have for a brother. He was happily involved with Dr. Vaughn, and Mira could not have been more pleased with his choice.
    She doubted it would be long before the wedding invitation arrived.
    With that happy thought in mind, Mira pulled into the run-down neighborhood where Corey Lambert lived.
    A lot of trailer parks were really nice, filled with shiny,well-kept homes inhabited by people who took pride in where they lived.
    This was not one of those places.
    The mobile homes here had seen better days. Patches of long, winter-brown weeds grew everywhere. The most prevalent