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He
couldn't let her affect him in any way. He needed his wits about him. Needed to
concentrate on what was important here.
    "You can
tell me more about these powers of yours over dinner," he said. "And
you'll detail the dreams concerning
my daughter. Maybe I can pick up on something you couldn't."
    "That was
my thought."
    Or he'd trick
her into revealing her hand, Tyler added to himself.
    Suddenly, the
appetite that had eluded him at lunch kicked in. He felt not only a powerful
hunger, but a renewed strength that had eluded him for the past two days. A man
who was energized by doing, his sitting back and letting others handle things
had festered inside him.
    If the woman
had the power to make some otherworldly connection with his daughter, Tyler
thought, she'd make a believer of him. And if she had had anything to do with
the girl's disappearance...she would be damn sorry.
    If Keelin
McKenna were part of some con to wring money out of him at the expense of his
daughter, he would personally turn her life into a living hell.

 
 
    NEARLY AN HOUR LATER, STILL WAITING FOR
TYLER LEIGHTON to finish up business, Keelin wondered if she'd made a pact with
the devil. A dark-haired, pale-eyed, too-handsome devil. She knew he didn't
trust her, and she could hardly blame him.
    But he had
agreed, and that's all that counted.
    This time, the
story would end well, she assured herself. They'd find Cheryl Leighton and from
that day forward, her father would keep her safe. Keelin had no doubts as to
his love and devotion to his daughter. She didn't know what had driven Cheryl
to run, though she gathered the girl blamed him for some terrible lie.
    A
misunderstanding, perhaps?
    Keelin rested
her head against the chair back, her energy suddenly at a low. The dreams had
interfered with her sleep the last two nights. Added to jet lag...
    "I'm
ready."
    She started.
"And just as I was getting comfortable." She forced herself from the
chair and into close proximity of Tyler Leighton. Too close. His warmth reached
out to her, curled along her tired body.
    "I wouldn't
get too comfortable around me, if I were you," he murmured.
    "A
warning?"
    "Call it
what you will."
    Keelin stared
up at his enigmatic expression. Though she was of average height and size, she
felt dwarfed by the man. He wasn't so very tall. She judged him to be just
short of six feet. And he wasn't so very large. His shoulders were of medium
breadth beneath the tailored suit jacket. But she recognized strength in his
visage and power in his gaze when he stared at her with lids half-lowered as if
he were trying to sear her brain.
    Keelin
suspected she should be a bit afraid
of the man, but at the moment, she was too weary even to be intimidated.
"Then I'll consider it a challenge," she finally returned. "But
don't underestimate me, Mr. Leighton. I'm as motivated as you are to find your
daughter." In some ways more so. She had a lot to make up for.
    "Then
let's get started. And my name is Tyler."
    Keelin found Mr. Leighton safer. Not that she would
admit it. As he held the office door open for her, she nodded agreeably and
adapted a positive attitude.
    Seeing to
Cheryl Leighton's safety wouldn't bring back Galvin Daley, but it might assuage
a bit of her guilt, Keelin thought hopefully as they descended to the first
floor. Besides which, she certainly didn't need another soul on her conscience.
    Downstairs,
she waited in the sheltered entryway while Tyler left her to fetch his vehicle
from the car park across the street. A movement to her right caught her eye.
Her attention refocused, she watched a stocky man slide out from the protection
of a nearby doorway. Nearing middle age, he had a jowly face and salt and
pepper hair. He glanced around furtively, then crossed the street at a trot,
entering the same door that Tyler had taken.
    Keelin frowned
and her stomach tightened for a moment until a bottle-green Jaguar rolled out
through the car park exit and stopped directly across from where