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“Skylar, right?”
I licked my lips, wondering if I should answer. She didn’t look like a psycho, though she was dressed in all black. I was no expert, but from where I was standing, she could be a killer.
“Who are you?” I went with.
“My name is Rae. You’re looking for Jack.”
“Wow. You deduced that just from me being in his house?” I snapped. Yeah, I was terrified, but I also felt irritated by yet another person’s presence. “Where’s Pete?” I asked suddenly.
“He’s out in the car.”
“No. He wouldn’t allow you in here with me.”
A smirk spread across her lips. “Yeah, I’m really good at my job. The whole point was that he wouldn’t see me come in here.”
“What do you want?”
“I’m here for Jack.”
My face flamed as I realized that while I was falling for Jack, he was with someone else. “O—oh. Um…”
“Not like that,” she chuckled. “I’m happily married as of a week ago.”
“Then what do you mean that you’re here for Jack?”
“I work with him.”
As far as I knew, Jack didn’t have a job. Then again, I’d only knownhim for a few weeks. It was very possible he had a life I knew nothing about. But still…wouldn’t he have mentioned…something?
“And where is that?”
“OPS.”
That was vague as shit, and didn’t help me at all with my current problem. “Well, that’s great, but I have to go.”
I walked past her, but she stopped me with just one sentence. “To find your son?”
I spun around, my heart hammering hard in my chest as I stormed over to her. “What do you know?”
“I heard about it on the police scanner.”
“And you just happen to know that it’s my son?” I asked. This was too suspicious. Her showing up here, my son going missing, and somehow it all led back to Jack?
“I don’t know where he is, but when I saw you drive up, I figured you were here for Jack’s help.”
“Yeah, well…he’s not here.”
“That’s because he’s gone missing. He went out for a run this morning and he hasn’t returned.”
“How do you know that? How do you know anything about me or?—”
“Like I said, I work for OPS.” When I still didn’t say anything, she continued. “Owens Protective Services.”
“Protective—” I rolled that around in my head, trying to put the pieces together. Granted, I was a little jumbled after everything that happened, but that most definitely did not make sense. Jack couldn’t work for them. He was just in prison.
“I know what you’re thinking. I can explain, but there’s a lot going on that you don’t know about.”
“And you expect me to go with you?”
