Anything but Mine by Linda Winfree

Author:Linda Winfree [Winfree, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Suspense, Crime
ISBN: 9781605040844
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2008-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Caitlin jogged lightly up the steps to the Albany regional FBI offices. The defendant in the case she’d been set to testify in had pled out at the last possible moment, and she should be happy that was off her plate.

Instead, lingering irritation simmered under her skin. Tick Calvert had to be the most stubborn man alive, and when he got an idea in his head, there was no changing his mind.

Or so he thought. She wouldn’t let him win this one. Since her miscarriage, he’d been withdrawn and absolutely adamant they wouldn’t attempt another pregnancy. She passed a hand over her flat stomach, the nagging little pain tugging at her heart. She wouldn’t deny that losing this baby hurt, almost as much as losing the first much later in her pregnancy had, but she refused to let fear of another loss hold them back. They’d argued over it again that morning, until Tick had stormed out to his truck without his customary “love you, precious” or even kissing her goodbye.

She was mad as hell, not hurt. That squeezing around her heart was anger. Not the ache of separation from the man she loved.

“Hey, Falconetti, we’re not running a race. Slow down, would you?” Agent Demetrius Taylor caught up with her at the top of the steps.

She shot him a cool look. “You know, if you quit smoking, keeping up with me wouldn’t be a problem.”

“You know, if you were less bitchy, we’d get along better.” He swiped his ID through the electronic lock at the back entrance. “We’re supposed to be partners. Bond and be best friends and all that bullshit.”

“Bullshit is right,” she muttered and swept into the building. Partners. Taylor was the guy she worked with, not her partner. She’d buried her partner more than four months ago, thanks to the son of a bitch standing trial in Chandler County. The shame of it was they couldn’t prove he’d killed her. Schaefer wasn’t facing charges of murdering Special Agent Gina Bocaccio.

The more Caitlin watched Tick bury himself in the evidence, the more she worried Autry Holton might work some miracle of defense and get him off. A shudder worked its way over Caitlin’s body. Schaefer, on the loose. He’d planned to kill her, to make her beg before strangling her, all in front of Tick.

She’d danced in the darkness of enough killers to know that if Schaefer walked out of that courthouse, he wouldn’t be able to resist the challenge she represented for him. Before he disappeared to begin killing again, he’d come after her. But like him, she learned from her mistakes.

This time, if need be, she’d be ready for him.

“So I guess you’re going down to Chandler County, huh?” Taylor glanced sideways at her, his face more unguarded and readable than any FBI agent’s should be. “Schaefer’s trial starts today, doesn’t it?”

“Yes.” She tugged open the office door.

“Yes, you’re going, or yes, it starts today?”

“Both.” She shrugged at the exasperated noise he made in his throat.

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