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devilish giggle.
    “Any time you’re around…”
    “Well, as much as I want to torture you about this right now, I should probably get back. I left Sophie out there alone.”
    “Go be a bartender then,” I say with a sigh, smacking her delicious ass when she turns to wiggle toward the door.  “You can be my wife again later tonight.  Deal?” I ask as I open the door.
    “Deal,” she says, leaning back to give me a loud kiss before we enter the club.
     

 
    CHAPTER TWELVE
     
    Olivia
     
    Dad has always been a fan of the news. He’s going home tomorrow, so rather than excusing myself to clean up or make out my grocery list, I’m sitting with him in the living room, enjoying every minute of our last day together.
    And I’m glad that I am. Otherwise I might’ve missed the news report about the break-in at DCSS. 
    “Head of Operations at the Atlanta Department of Child Support Services, Alan Richter, filed a police report early this morning, stating that the offices were broken into. One of his employees, case worker Marla Stern, reportedly arrived to work at eight A.M. to find that one of the chairs from just outside their facility had been thrown through a window. Her statement cited what she believed to be water and foam from a fire extinguisher covering most surfaces of the lab and cold storage areas.  The scene was later investigated by local law enforcement, who believe the break-in to be a gang related act of vandalism, as nothing was stolen except for the fire extinguisher believed to be used to discharge the dry chemical in the laboratory. Richter told our correspondent that hundreds, possibly thousands of samples were compromised and that it could take weeks to sort through the records and recall donors.  Police Chief Ronald Gaines is set to hold a press conference about escalating gang activity in the area later on today. Tune in at eleven for more on this story.”
    Could it be…?  Am I crazy to think…?  Is there any possible way Sophie is capable of something like this?
    Cash said that Jason told him he’d seen Sophie returning late last night.  Where had she been?  And why had she felt the need to lie about it?
    Because she’s a devious criminal in addition to being a colossal bitch.
    My head buzzes around both fact and theory as the morning news continues on without me.
    “Something wrong sweetheart?” Dad asks, jarring me from deep inside my own mind.
    “No, no. I…no, everything is fine.  I, uh, I just remembered I need to call Cash about something. I’ll be right back.”
    I make my exit quickly, already trying to figure out how I can tell Cash about this with a little finesse. You know, so that I don’t sound like an unbalanced, psychotic conspiracy theorist.  When he answers, I just wing it, which has never really worked well for me.
    “Hey, babe.  You comin’ in?”
    “I think Sophie vandalized the DCSS to ruin the samples,” I blurt.
    Smooth, Olivia.  Very, very smooth.
    “So you think…Sophie was…now wait.  You think what?”
    I tell Cash about the news.  I don’t have to tell him about my suspicions then. The growling sigh of aggravation I hear on the other end of the phone tells me he’s on the same page.
    “I’ll call you back,” he says abruptly.
    “Cash, what are you going to do?”
    “Find Jason King.”
    I hold my cell in my hands, thinking to myself that the shit is surely about to hit the fan.
     
     

 
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    Prologue
    Jasper
     
    Seventeen years ago
     
    “What’s he gonna do, Mom?” I try to wriggle away from her, but she holds me too