Midnight Vengeance

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Author: Lisa Marie Rice
probably have followed young Mick around, trying to steal his very expensive camera with about a yard of lens, hung by a leather strap around his neck.
    “I, ah, I have—” Her mind shorted. What did she have? What was best? Sudden onset of blinding headache? Stomach flu? Uncle Elmer just passed away? “A headache. Migraine. I think I’ll say goodbye to Suzanne and grab a taxi—”
    “No,” Jacko said. His deep voice, his dark eyes were calm.
    Lauren blinked. “I beg your pardon?”
    “You’re not taking a taxi, not if you don’t feel well. I’ll drive you.”
    “But...” Lauren waved her hand at the scene in front of her. The show was in full swing. Everybody who was coming had arrived and nobody had left yet. It was the best moment of any successful exhibit, people talking, eating, drinking. Happy. “I can’t take you away from the show. That wouldn’t be fair.”
    “I’m driving you home.” It was as if he hadn’t heard her. He was impassive, as if stating some kind of universal law. The only sign that there was some emotion was the slight Texan accent that became stronger.
Draaaah-vin.
    Fighting him required more energy than she possessed. And a tiny part of her was glad. She was walking away from a life she loved. Her world had flipped in the space of a minute. It would have been almost more than she could bear to cut all the ties to her life here in the time it took a taxi to arrive.
    At least on the drive home with Jacko she could pretend she still lived here, just a little longer.
    “I need to say goodbye to Suzanne.” Lauren looked up at him, trying her best to keep her face expressionless when the idea of it was ripping her insides. “Then we can go.”
    He nodded and this time took her elbow instead of offering his arm. Thank God. Her legs felt rubbery, her head light. Her heart was pounding so hard it was a miracle nobody heard. She felt as if the noise should be bouncing off the walls.
    Suzanne was near the north wall, which contained Lauren’s sketches of Suzanne’s corporate interior designs, including the Lo Corporation’s glass lobby. Lauren had loved sketching it—all grace and light.
    Her heart gave another huge painful thump when she realized that she could never do this again. Never draw public buildings. Never, ever have a show, not even anonymously. That door had suddenly closed shut with a bang.
    She swallowed. Saying goodbye to that and to Suzanne suddenly seemed like too high a price to pay. Like saying goodbye to life itself.
    But it was what it was.
    Suzanne was talking to the corporate spokesman for the Lo Corporation, a young, spiky-haired woman dressed in black, head to toe. The woman said something and Suzanne threw her head back and laughed. Even her husband, who was standing with his arm around her, smiled.
    John Huntington, smiling. Wow. He was another one of the grim-faced brigade, the founder of Alpha Security and, like Senior and Jacko himself, a former SEAL. He was tall and broad and good-looking, in a slightly dangerous way, his dark hair silver at the temples, making him look like a distinguished pirate.
    Lauren had been astonished when she first saw the Alpha Security International website with its photograph of a dark-haired John, without a trace of white in his hair. John never spoke of his military service, but presumably as a SEAL he’d been in battle many times, which he’d apparently taken in his stride. He said that all the white hair came from being a husband and father.
    Oh God. Suzanne’s little girl, Isabel. The most beautiful baby on the face of the planet, absolutely adorable. She gave a huge toothless grin every time she saw Lauren.
    Lauren would never see Isabel again. Never watch her grow up. Not get to watch John freak when she started walking. He’d be snow white by the time Isabel started dating. It would have been so much fun to be a part of all that.
    But she’d be far away. In another world, another life. Mourning this
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