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She’d glanced at him when he sat down, then went back to her phone. But she was alert. Wary. Studied everyone who walked into the restaurant. Everyone who walked out. Was that the look of someone innocent?
He wouldn’t bet on it.
He’d studied up on Alex Conway.
She was an operator. Had all kinds of tricks up her sleeve.
And her reputation in court? Once she had an advantage, she didn’t hesitate. Went straight for the jugular and took her opponent down.
Most people from normal families never developed that hyper-awareness. That killer instinct. In Gideon’s experience, that generally happened when the individual had gone through hard times. Walked on the dark side.
Conway had been squeaky clean since her undergraduate days at the University of Washington, through law school at Northwestern and in her law practice. Before that? Nothing but a black hole.
No high school records. No family history. He hadn’t been able to find a single mention of Alex Conway anywhere before she started college.
He’d looked. Dug deep, using FBI resources. But no matter how deeply he’d burrowed, he hadn’t found a damn thing about her until she started college at U Dub.
The only conclusion he could draw? Whatever devils she’d fought, whatever had put that steel in Alex Conway’s spine, had come far earlier in her life. Her darkness must have begun when she was a kid.
She’d married Jeremy Trotter after she graduated from law school. Did dark call to dark? Was she part of Jerry’s money laundering scheme? Had Trotter simply decided he didn’t want to share?
Wherever she went, he’d be right behind her. She might discover the tracker he’d dropped in her bag at the Mexican restaurant. But, like always, he had a back-up plan. And he’d already attached another tracker to her new Subaru.
