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“She’s a beautiful little girl. ”
Brent felt as if his throat was constricting again. His eyes stung, and he didn’t bother trying to blink back the tears. Would he ever see her again?
“Yes, she is,” he agreed quietly. His fingers tightened around the remote, but he made no move to stop the video. “I shouldn’t be standing here, doing nothing. Thinking about eating. Thinking about—” His voice halted abruptly as guilt washed over his face.
“Thinking about what?” Callie half expected him to say something about killing the man who’d done this horrible thing.
She was caught completely by surprise when he quietly confessed, “You. ”
Racing Against Time
Marie Ferrarella
MARIE FERRARELLA
earned a master’s degree in Shakespearean comedy, and, perhaps as a result, her writing is distinguished by humor and natural dialogue. This RITA® Award-winning author’s goal is to entertain and to make people laugh and feel good. She has written over one hundred books for Silhouette, some under the name Marie Nicole. Her romances are beloved by fans worldwide and have been translated into Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Polish, Japanese and Korean.
To
Helen Conrad,
still wonderful
after all these years
Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Prologue
He sat in his car and watched them.
Just as he had yesterday. And the day before that. And the day before that. Watched them and memorized their movements.
He didn’t want there to be any slipups.
That was what had gotten him in trouble before. Thinking he hadn’t made a mistake when he had. He’d been too confident, too sure that he was smarter than the people around him.
This time he knew better.
Knew that he couldn’t allow the fact that he was more intelligent than the people he was dealing with to blur his caution, his inbred sense of survival.That had gotten away from him before, caused his downfall.
Pride went before a fall.
He still had his pride. And it was that pride he meant to avenge.
His pride and his life.
Because the man who lived in the house he was watching, whose comings and goings he had quickly committed to memory, had taken it all away from him. Taken away his life, his pride.
His daughter.
Payback time was finally here.
Very carefully he turned the key in the ignition. The vehicle he was sitting in purred to life, ready to do his bidding.
He smiled to himself as he moved the transmission shift lever into drive.
He was through waiting.
It was time to act.
Chapter 1
Brenton Montgomery didn’t generally oversleep.
Quite the opposite, in fact. Former decorated Aurora police officer, former respected A. D. A. and presently, highly regarded criminal court justice, he had been blessed with an inner clock that went off anywhere from two to five minutes before the alarm clock on his nightstand. It had been that way ever since he’d had a need for an alarm clock.
