Without a Trace by Mari Hannah

Author:Mari Hannah [Hannah, Mari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409192381
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Reluctantly, Hank handed over her keys. They left the pub without seeing their drinks off. There was no changing Kate’s mind. God knows, he’d tried reasoning with her. She was on a mission … again. Her rebelliousness had landed them both in hot water more than once, but where she led, he followed. Until she’d exhausted all possibilities, she wouldn’t rest. Although he didn’t voice his opinion, Hank thought that going off-piste during an undercover operation was bordering on suicidal. If Torres found out, Kate could kiss goodbye to the most high-profile investigation she’d ever work on.

It bothered him that everyone at base was now rooting for Jo, unaware that he had unequivocal proof that she was gone for good. Kate had forbidden him from contacting them. Investigating the call from Jo’s phone was her sole focus. The rest could wait.

What was the harm? Hank thought. They had twenty-four hours to kill. Given that they were leaving the area, at least he would have the opportunity to keep tabs on her and cover her back so she didn’t blow her cover. Already, Kate was in the zone, concentrating on the road ahead, a very different woman now that Carmichael had stuck her oar in. He couldn’t help but admire Kate’s ability to keep the faith, however misguided, and decided to let her follow her nose until she met a dead end, then support her afterwards.

As the miles flew by, she shared her plans to make enquiries at Blenheim Palace, the Duke of Marlborough’s ancestral home.

‘Why there?’ He couldn’t imagine.

‘It was on Jo’s bucket list, a stone’s throw from Woodstock.’ She grinned at him, the weirdness continuing. ‘If her phone was switched on, pound to a penny that’s where she was when she made the call.’

‘If she made the call.’

‘She made it.’

Crossing his arms, Hank wound his neck in, his thoughts turning to Jo. Offender profiling for the MIT had only been part of her job. The rest of the time she’d spent at the Regional Psychology Service, diagnosing and treating people whose mental health was skewed in some way, offering them alternatives to medication through psychotherapy. A few days ago, he’d been prepared to believe that she’d recognised this in herself since the breakdown of her relationship with Kate and was trying to heal herself through meditation or by taking spiritual guidance, but not now. She might disengage at times of stress, curl up and read a book, but any more than a few days of turning her back on the world was a stretch to anyone in their right mind. Unless she’d taken a temporary vow of silence, surely she’d have turned on a TV, picked up a newspaper or called her kids. When he pointed out that she’d done none of those things, Kate bit his head off.

He yawned, exhausted with the whole affair.

Acting on a single phone call lasting twenty-seven seconds, Kate’s self-deception had returned. Even though he didn’t share the view that her destiny wasn’t quite

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