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and whispered, “She loves you,
    Rafe. She’ll always love you so much, just as I love my
    Tye. Give her a chance when she grows up.” Tears
    had washed her face as he rocked her, his own
    cheeks damp as he realized he was losing her
    forever. “Promise me. Take care of Cami.” Then
    Jaymi had looked over his shoulder and smiled
    before whispering, “Rafe, it’s Tye.” Her lips had
    trembled as such joy flooded her face, her dying gaze.
    “He’s finally come for me, Rafe. Tye finally came for
    me—”
    And she had died. With the greatest joy that Rafe
    had seen on her face since the day she had married
    her precious Tye, he watched Jaymi slip from life as
    he screamed out her name.
    But the sheriff hadn’t believed the men.
    The sheriff and his deputies had arrived ahead of
    the state police. Immediately he and his cousins had
    been handcuffed and arrested as Jaymi’s murderers.
    And now they were trying to pin the five other murders
    that had occurred that summer on Rafe and his
    cousins.
    The black-masked serial killer had been caught
    on surveillance taking Jaymi outside the pharmacy the
    night before. Her sister, Cami, had reported Jaymi’s
    disappearance hours later when Jaymi didn’t return to
    the apartment with the medicine she had gone for.
    That morning when the pharmacist went to unlock
    the back door he had found the medicine, Jaymi’s
    key, and the door unlocked.
    When he had pulled up the camera footage for
    the sheriff, they had seen the abduction, which had
    been taped just hours before Logan made that
    desperate 911 call. She had been taken at the same
    time witnesses had seen him and his cousins getting
    gas in town several blocks away.
    Ryan Calvert, the recruiting officer who had taken
    an unusual interest in him and his cousins, had
    managed to get a copy of that security footage before
    the sheriff had gotten to it. Gunnery Sergeant Calvert
    hadn’t rushed to the jail to bail them out, or to hire the
    nearest lawyer. The minute he’d heard the report over
    his radio and remembered seeing the Callahan
    cousins in town as he drove to his hotel, he rushed to
    the combined truck stop/gas station and restaurant
    and made nice with the manager, Missy Derringer.
    Thankfully, Missy was a friend. Perhaps not a
    friend that publicly claimed the Callahans, but a friend
    nonetheless. They did have a few, sometimes.
    Being the owner’s daughter had helped. She’d
    quickly copied the security footage before her father
    could order otherwise and gladly gave it to the
    brooding Marine demanding it.
    It hadn’t helped.
    They were still sitting there in a damn jail cell two
    days later wondering how the hell it had happened.
    And Rafe couldn’t get the memory of it out of his
    head. The sight of that smile, so filled with love as she
    whispered Tye had come for her. It sent a chill up his
    spine, even now. The sense that she had only been
    waiting, always been watching for him to come for her
    had swept over him.
    Jaymi had made Rafe swear he would protect
    Cami. She was sick, alone in Jaymi’s apartment,
    according to Jaymi’s friend and neighbor. Cami cried
    continually. She was begging for Jaymi, and Cami’s
    aunt and uncle were considering having her
    hospitalized due to the severity of the bronchitis.
    Rafe could still hear Ryan screaming about a
    vagrant who had been found with Crowe’s knife in his
    side, his pants undone, and Jaymi’s blood on him.
    Ryan was yelling furiously about taking his own
    samples to a Denver lawyer and having them
    analyzed. He was demanding the sheriff release his
    nephews now, by God, before he sued the county for
    an illegal arrest. “That fucking security tape is all you
    dumb shits need,” he raged. “Now let them the hell out
    now.”
    Rafe shook his head.
    He and his cousins knew Ryan Calvert was a
    Callahan, but no one else had, until now. Their
    grandparents had given Ryan up for adoption, when
    they couldn’t afford to feed their children any