Stalked by Allison Brennan

Author:Allison Brennan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Thrillers, Azizex666, Fiction
ISBN: 9781250005960
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2012-10-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

Georgetown, Washington, D.C.

Hans stopped by Kate Donovan’s house Saturday on his way home.

“I’ve left you two messages,” Kate snapped when she opened the door.

“May I come in?”

She opened the door wider and he stepped in. “I spent all afternoon in a meeting with Chief O’Neal, then went to visit Shannon Presidio.”

Kate softened a bit. She would never be a soft woman. But before meeting Dillon Kincaid she was on the fast track to an early death through recklessness. Now she was everything Hans had always believed she could be: smart, focused, dedicated. She still had a reckless streak, but it was tempered by experience.

“Is Dillon here?”

“Sleeping.”

It was just past nine. “This early?”

“He has to be up at three to take a military transport to talk to one of those damn serial killers you want him to profile. It’s not as easy on him as you think it is.”

“I never thought it was easy.”

“I’m not sleeping.” Dillon came downstairs in sweatpants and a T-shirt. He shook Hans’s hand. “What brings you here?”

Hans glanced at Kate. She scowled and said to Dillon, “I didn’t want to worry you.”

Dillon put his arm around her and steered her toward the family room.

“Did you come to see Kate or me?”

“Both,” Hans said.

“Don’t drag Dillon into this,” Kate said.

They sat at the kitchen table where Hans had often found himself enjoying a meal with the Kincaids and nearly as often talking to Dillon about work. Though Dillon was a civilian consultant, he spent the bulk of his time on FBI cases. He’d been offered a permanent position when he first moved to D.C. but had declined.

“Hans.” Dillon didn’t have to say anything else. He took Kate’s hand but focused on Hans.

“Did Lucy tell you?”

“That she went to New York?” Kate snapped. “I’m furious with her. I told her to keep her head low and focus on her studies. I suppose I should blame Sean, but Lucy is responsible for her own actions.”

“That’s not what I was talking about,” Hans said. “I asked Sean to go to New York. I assumed Lucy would join him.”

Dillon eyed him closely. “What happened?”

“Six months ago, I knew the second hiring panel was going to reject Lucy’s application. A friend told me confidentially that Fran Buckley still had a lot of friends who thought either she was innocent or she shouldn’t be in prison even if she was guilty. I went to Stockton and told him I wanted to overrule their decision.”

“That’s not done,” Kate said.

Hans smiled sadly. “Not often, but it wasn’t the first time. Stockton agreed. We sealed it, but the three panelists all knew. They were told it was confidential and no one was to be told. But now Lucy knows.”

“Shit,” Kate said.

“I want to know who told her.”

“I didn’t know,” Kate said. “Dillon?”

He didn’t say anything.

“You knew?”

“Not for a fact. I suspected.” He caught Hans’s eye. “Why would someone tell her?”

“To force her to quit. Which of course she did. I simply didn’t accept it. She gave me her Quantico ID.

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