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isn’t turning her back. She isn’t doing anything against you at all. She’s just trying to move on with her life.”
    He studied her, his emotionless eyes boring intoher, through her. “On the day you get married, I want to see you in your wedding dress. Sylvie denied me that privilege, but you won’t.”
    â€œI’m not getting married.”
    â€œYou might change your mind once you find someone worthy.”
    â€œI’ve worked too hard to control my own life. I’m not giving it up for a white satin dress.” She wasn’t giving it up for the opportunity to visit her serial-killer father in prison either. She pushed up from her chair. “It’s time for me to go.”
    â€œAre you going to cut me out of your life as well?”
    She had to remain firm. She couldn’t let him push her around. “I have to get on with my life, too.”
    â€œYou need your father, Diana.”
    â€œGoodbye.”
    â€œIf someone like that professor ever threatens you again, I want to know about it.”
    She paused, memories of Professor Bertram holding her hostage for days, stripping her and hunting her in the forest swept through her mind. “Why? What would you do?”
    â€œWhat any good father would do. I would protect you.”
    â€œFrom prison?”
    He lifted one shoulder in a shrug. “I’d find a way.”
    What was he going to do? Sic the Copycat Killer on anyone who crossed her path? Was heforgetting he was the reason Professor Bertram had kidnapped her in the first place? That the man was desperate to avenge Kane’s brutal murder of his daughter? “I can protect myself.” Taking a deep breath, she turned away from Kane and took a step toward the door.
    â€œHe has another one, you know.”
    The tremble in her legs spread through her body, centering just under her rib cage. She turned back to face him. “What did you say?”
    â€œHe took her last night. After stopping in at your sister’s wedding reception to pay his respects.”
    â€œThe Copycat Killer?”
    â€œOf course.”
    â€œHow do you know this?”
    â€œI know a lot of things, Diana. Like the desperation a parent feels when kept away from a child. Especially when she needs you most. I could tell you all about it if you would visit me.”
    â€œWhere did he take her?”
    â€œI’m not asking you to do anything a good daughter wouldn’t do anyway.”
    She didn’t have to close her eyes to see the nightmare she’d gone through in the professor’s cabin play out in front of her like a movie. But where the professor was a grief-crazed father after revenge, the Copycat killed for pleasure. And partof his pleasure revolved around torture and humiliation. “You can’t let him kill another woman.”
    â€œCan’t I? What am I going to do about it? I’m in prison.”
    Her stomach swirled, with anger, with nausea. As much as she wanted to walk away, as much as she needed to retain control over her life, she couldn’t let an innocent woman suffer. She couldn’t let an innocent woman die. Not if she had a chance to save her. “What do you want me to do?”
    â€œVisit. Like a good daughter.” Thin lips pulled back in an icy smile. “I’ll see you again tomorrow. We’ll have a nice chat.”

Chapter Four
    â€œI told you not to promise him anything.” Reed paused behind their prison escort’s broad shoulders to let the barred door slide open in front of them. He couldn’t wait to get Diana out of this damn prison and as far away from Dryden Kane as possible. He knew allowing her to talk to Kane was a bad idea. He’d been right and then some. Now it was all he could do to keep himself from throwing her over his shoulder and hauling her off somewhere the killer would never find her. Door fully open, the three of them stepped up to the next barred