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rest in peace along with the bodies of the
    grandparents that had set the events in motion.
    He’d killed them. He’d been forced to kill their
    sons and their sons wives that snowy day as they
    returned from Denver. He hadn’t wanted to, but he’d
    had no choice. What they had been doing, and what
    they had found in that safe deposit box no one had
    known JR and Eileen Callahan had rented, could have
    destroyed them all.
    Him included.
    He couldn’t let it happen. He couldn’t let them
    destroy everything he had killed the cousins’ parents
    for.
    And it could have ended there.
    It should have ended there.
    And it would have, if only Jaymi hadn’t realized
    who was calling. And if he wasn’t certain she would
    figure out he was killing as well.
    All for the greater good, of course, he told himself
    as he had been telling himself since that first life had
    been taken. It was all for the greater good.
    But this time, with this woman, he knew the lies
    were catching up with him.
    It wasn’t for the greater good.
    It wasn’t for his own good.
    It was for the good of a man that only gave the
    orders and refused to bloody his hands.
    It was for the good of a family that would throw
    him to the wolves if it meant saving their own asses.
    And he had no intentions of taking that fall.
    At least, not alone.
    CHAPTER 2
    Rafe sat in the jail cell, silent, staring unblinking at the
    stone wall across from him, trying to ignore the blood
    that stained his clothes nearly two days after Jaymi’s
    death. The sheriff refused to allow them to change
    clothes or shower. Swabs had been taken for DNA.
    But despite the tech’s request for the clothes, it had
    been refused. Sheriff Tobias commented that he
    needed to wear Jaymi’s blood a while longer to
    realize what he had done to her.
    He could hear his recruiting officer in the sheriff’s
    office yelling. Ryan Calvert had a strong, booming
    voice. It carried through the jail and caught attention,
    but for Rafe, Logan, and Crowe there was very little
    that could penetrate their shock, even now.
    “I know I killed him.” Crowe repeated again. “I put
    that knife straight inside his kidney. It was a kill blow.”
    At twenty-two Crowe shouldn’t even know how to
    make a kill blow with a hunting knife.
    But he had. Unfortunately, the blow had come too
    late.
    They had come too late.
    Rafe was yanked back, hours before, to the
    memory of Jaymi’s screams echoing through the
    forest, jerking the cousins awake as they camped at
    the side of the lake and sending them crashing
    through the forest to find her.
    They had followed the glow of a fire higher up
    Crowe Mountain. Followed her screams which were
    agonized and enraged. They had rushed into the
    clearing as her attacker’s knife plunged into her side.
    Crowe hadn’t been able to save her.
    After the black-garbed figure had jumped from
    her, his pants still pushed below his hips his round
    eyes filled with fear as he ran. Crowe had crashed
    after him, tackling him to the ground as Rafe ran for
    Jaymi. He’d been aware of Crowe struggling with
    Jaymi’s attacker. Crowe’s knife had gleamed in the
    moonlight before a high-pitched scream had sounded
    and the assailant had managed to grip a stone and
    slam Crowe in the head with it, before escaping.
    The knowledge of her death shadowing her grayblue
    eyes, Jaymi’s last thoughts were of her sister.
    She was sick. “Take care of Cami,” Jaymi begged,
    crying. As he held her, as her blood soaked into his
    clothes and Logan made the desperate 911 call.
    “Please, Rafe, swear it.” The harder she had
    sobbed, the faster her blood had flowed from her
    body.
    “I swear, Jaymi,” he vowed hoarsely knowing she
    was struggling to hang on. “I swear I’ll always watch
    out for her.”
    There was no saving her.
    Rafe had applied pressure on the wound. He
    held her. He screamed at her and demanded she live.
    And still, she had reached up with one hand shaking,
    touched his cheek