Don't Look Back by Joanne Rock

Author:Joanne Rock [Rock, Joanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Category
ISBN: 9780373793099
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

THANK GOD SHE kept her cell phone on.

Donata resisted the urge to wear a parka to the precinct to fill out a report. But she did indulge the desire to wrap herself in a chenille throw she kept on the back of her office chair for the days when the door to the street was opened too often. Now, as Mick finished taking her statement, it was all she could do not to bury her head under the blanket and lean on Sean, who sat in a chair beside her.Thank God he’d seen the link. Thank God he’d called before she was naked. She’d started a litany of thanksgiving the moment she’d gotten his phone call early that morning and she hadn’t let up the thankful prayers since she found a handful of tiny webcams around her home and not at the bed-and-breakfast where they’d tried to make someone fall into that trap.

Whoever had done this was easily staying one step ahead of them.

“And how long were you surfing the Web after Donata left your apartment last night, Sean?” Mick had leaned back from his computer, his haggard, handsome face showing every night he hadn’t slept in the past week as he turned his attention to Sean.

“I was probably online for about twenty minutes before I found the video streaming images.”

“But Donata said she’d been home for almost half an hour when you called her.” Mick’s gaze narrowed and she wondered what he was thinking.

“I picked up the loft a little before I sat down at the computer. I flipped the TV on and off maybe. I don’t know.”

“Did you call her as soon as you found the feed?”

“Jesus, Mick.” Donata sat up straighter, unwilling to let her partner run down the person who’d saved her from exposing herself to the whole world.

Or, at least, a whole online community full of sexual deviants.

“It’s okay.” Sean didn’t look pleased, but he glared at Mick with the same angry intensity Mick sent his way. “I’d ask the same thing. And yes, I called her apartment the second my brain processed what I was seeing. The first frame I saw said 1:18 a.m.”

Donata couldn’t help but remember that hadn’t been long after they’d been naked together and she’d been vividly reminded how rewarding it could be to give up control now and then. She warmed just thinking about the way she’d forgotten the ten-minute time limit thanks to Sean’s incredible means of distracting her.

“You have to admit, Beringer,” Mick continued, “you spend a hell of a lot of time checking out Web sites that sell sexual images.”

Sean’s fist hit Donata’s desk, scattering her pleasant remembrances of their time together.

“If you think I enjoy the sickening shit I have to see day after day in order to track these dirtballs after what happened to my sister—”

“Yeah. I figured. I know.” Mick nodded. Closed his eyes. Looked like hell. “This case is pissing me off and it’s got so many spirals and tangents I can’t even feel like we’re doing our job if we only take down a couple of these bastards.

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