The Setup by Carol Ericson

Author:Carol Ericson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-01-07T20:16:40+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Kyra dropped her key chain. Despite her weak knees, she did a quick dip to retrieve it. Her brain whirred for several seconds as she gathered herself. She knew it was pointless to deny it, but years of self-preservation kicked in.

She faced him, one side of her mouth quirking into a smile. “You’ve got the wrong person. I’m Kyra, not Mimi.”

“You’re Kyra Chase now...” He squared his shoulders as if ready to do battle. “Twenty years ago, you were Marilyn Monroe Lake, a frightened eight-year-old girl who’d just lost her mother to a killer.”

“So sad for Marilyn Monroe Lake.” Turning her back on him, she shoved her key into the dead bolt and clicked it. What else had he discovered about her? Quinn had been right about J-Mac. She shouldn’t have tried to play him.

As she thrust open the door, she felt Jake’s presence over her shoulder. And now she couldn’t get rid of him.

“Are you going to invite me in to discuss this? Discuss why you lied to me?” He placed his hand flat against the door, holding it wide.

“Do I have a choice?” She floated inside her apartment, dropped the keys into a basket on the low wall that separated her small dining area from the entrance hall and placed her purse next to the basket. “You can close and dead bolt the door behind you.”

The door was shut, and the gentleness of it caused her more dread than if he’d slammed it. Would he kick her off the task force? She couldn’t allow that to happen. She’d use every favor, every tool in her arsenal, to keep her place on the task force.

She spun around, her fists clenching at her sides. “Why are you snooping into my background? Do you do that for every task force member or just the ones you don’t want to work with?”

He clasped a hand on the back of his neck, and for the first time she noticed the weariness in his handsome face, the lines on the sides of his mouth etched deep, the hazel eyes, dark and unfathomable. “Is that what you think? Have I really shown you that I don’t want you on the task force? Don’t want to work with you? I invited you to survey the video footage with me today. I drove you to the murder scene last night.”

She blinked her eyes. And she might’ve just messed up. She should’ve listened to Quinn. When had he ever steered her wrong?

“Besides,” he sighed, and sank onto her couch, grabbing a throw pillow and dragging it into his lap, “I didn’t discover you were Marilyn Lake by looking in your background, although I tried. Your name and ID change are pretty thorough. There is nothing online that links you to that little girl.”

“I hired the best to clean my background.” She perched on the arm of the chair across from him. “Then how’d you find out and why were you digging into my past?”

“You raised my suspicions. You couldn’t have worked with Quinn on any of his cases.

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