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passenger side of the car. He’d known that Lex was there, so he unlocked the door and let the guy inside.
    “Huh…kind of figured you’d be doing the surveillance from
inside
her apartment,” Lex said as he handed Chance a burger from the local fast food joint. “Guess you struck out tonight, huh?”
    “Screw off,” Chance told him as he tossed the wrapped burger onto the dashboard. “I want to know how the hell you lost that van.”
    Lex winced. “The clubs are all letting out, man. Traffic two roads over is a bitch. The guy knew that. He planned it. He disappeared in that maze and there was no catching him. At least…not yet.”
    Chance waited.
    “I’ve got some connections we can use. I’m already pulling strings to get access to the traffic cams in the area. We might get lucky and spot the guy on video. If we do, we’ll find him. The guy only slipped away for the time being. He’s not gone for good.”
    He’d better not be.
    “So are we still looking at the ex? Ethan Barclay? You think the guy got obsessed and can’t let go?”
    “Ethan has a history of obsession.” And violence. “Three years ago, his ex-fiancée was killed in a car crash, one week after she’d broken up with him. Then he had another girlfriend, Marjorie…she wound up in the hospital, with broken ribs and a concussion. She filed charges against him, but then…hell, I don’t know what happened. She dropped the charges and vanished. He got away clean.” His fingers tapped against the steering wheel. “So, yeah, I think it’s safe to say the man may have one serious problem with rejection.”
    Lex whistled. “Sounds like a serious asshole.”
    “Ethan has had plenty of brushes with the law, but nothing has stuck. The guy has been in and out of jail more times than I can count. Or at least, he was, until he turned eighteen. Since then—”
    “He’s gotten smarter about avoiding arrest,” Lex guessed.
    Chance nodded. “That’s what I figure.” The guy sure hadn’t gone legit.
    Gwen’s lights turned off.
    Chance tensed.
    “Um, man, are you sure he’s the only one obsessed?”
    Very slowly, Chance turned his head to stare at his friend.
    “What I mean…” Lex rushed to say. “What I mean is that until we have proof that Ethan is our guy, we have to keep our options open.”
    Damn straight they did.
    Lex bit into his burger. “And I also meant…” He mumbled around the food, “that you’ve got it bad for her.”
    Tell me something I don’t know.
    He stared back up at Gwen’s window.
    ***
    Her phone rang. Gwen turned in her bed, moving so that her gaze fell on the phone that rested nearby. The phone was on the nightstand and when it rang again, it vibrated, moving slightly against the wooden surface.
    She reached out and her fingers curled around the phone. She swiped her finger across the screen. Gwen didn’t recognize the number. She shouldn’t answer it—
    She did.
    “Hello?” Gwen put the phone to her ear.
    Nothing.
    Another one of those damn calls.
    “This isn’t funny,” she snapped. “Stop calling me. I’m sick of this game, got it?”
    She heard the quick exhalation of breath and then… “Never said it was a game.”
    The voice was a low, rough rasp. Her heart actually stopped when the man spoke.
    “Who is this?” Gwen demanded.
    “You smelled good tonight.” He was still talking in that low, raspy voice, as if he wanted to disguise himself. “Like vanilla. You use that vanilla lotion, don’t you? Put it all over your body.”
    She pulled the covers closer. She did use vanilla lotion. She kept it on the vanity in her bathroom.
    “Scared?” He laughed then. “Are you going to sink under the covers and wish this monster would go away?”
    Sink under the covers…
    She had sunk beneath the covers.
    “Too bad, princess. I’m not some bad dream you can wish away.” His voice roughened. “You’re not going to escape from me.”
    “Who is th-this?” She hated that her voice