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echoed.
    She smiled and quickly nodded.
    “Where are we going, anyway, and where’s the fire? I thought we were scheduled to be in New York a few more days?”
    I didn’t miss the way her eyes darted nervously toward me and then back to the road. “Oh, it’s nothing. Just want to get started on the project!” Her tone was an octave too high.
    “Listen up, kid. And yes, I can call you that because I’ll be thirty in less than twenty-four hours. I know when you’re lying. And you, Morgan Justice, are lying to me right now.”
    She stiffened her arms and sucked in a deep breath. “Well, there was a slight complication, but Shane is all over it. Riley’s helping out now, and we’re going to figure everything out. There’s no need to worry.”
    “What complication?” I asked, turning my legs toward her.
    Morgan tucked her dark hair back behind her ear and smiled for a second. “So, I went out to get coffee and bagels yesterday and when I came back, there was something waiting outside the door.”
    “A severed head?” I laughed.
    She shook her head. “A note and some sort of coin with a weird symbol on it.”
    “Why didn’t you tell me?”
    “Shane said not to scare you. You’ve been so out of sorts, Brook, and I didn’t want you to know he ’d found you.”
    And he had. He had found us both. Tears clogged my throat. It was one thing for this son of a bitch to threaten me, but it was entirely another for him to threaten Morgan. “What did the note say?” I asked cautiously.
    She glanced toward me. “It was different; definitely angry and more unstable, I’d say. I think he was mad that you left Vegas.”
    I’d shown her the other notes so she would know what was going on in case something happened to me. Hell, I’d given her copies, just in case.
    “His tone was…frightening. It’s like he sees you as a possession, Brooklyn. Not as a person.”
    It took me a few minutes to process things, but after I thought about it all, I looked at my best friend. “I want a few things, Sin. I want the letter and coin, and then after your shoot, I want you to take me somewhere he can’t find us. Then I want you to go home.”
    She began to protest about leaving, but I stopped her. “You need to go home. Just make sure he can’t find me. We’ll find somewhere small, in the middle of nowhere. Then, you leave. And give me your phone.”
    “But I need to call Shane . . .”
    Holding out my hand, I waited. She finally gave it up and I found mine in the bottom of my purse. Pushing the button on the console, I waited until the window was down and chucked them both into rush-hour traffic, earning honks and curses from the drivers beside us.
    Good riddance, New York . My namesake sucked. It was such a huge city, but he found me there anyway. I had to change tactics. Smaller, no name town. Somewhere everyone knew everyone else, where little old biddies sat on their porches and gossiped until the sun went down, and would make sure they knew if any outsider encroached on their turf. Bigger wasn’t always better, after all.

 
    Dressed as a maintenance worker, I watched from down the hallway as Morgan lifted the rose, the coin, and the note that I’d sealed. The coin belonged to my late father, a prominent attorney in the city of Las Vegas. He gave it to me the day I graduated from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, earning my Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice. He thought I was going to law school, just like him, and that I was following in his footsteps. But I didn’t want to be like him. He thought Mother was ignorant of his affairs, but she knew of every woman he took into his bed, or on his desk, or in his car. And she grew bitter and tired of confronting him with his behavior, only to have the fact that she would be left penniless thrown into her face. Mother had grown up in poverty and had no intention of returning there. I couldn’t blame her for that.
    When Peter began seeing Kate behind Brooklyn’s