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half step closer to Cusack and jealousy, white-hot and primal, tightened a band in his chest. He recognized the feeling, though very few women had ever stirred the emotion so fiercely inside him. Maybe he shouldn’t be so hard on Cusack for the way he had been so invidious when he had been dating her, considering he was having the same feelings now. Insurmountable needs, familiar hungers, and alien sensations were starting to add up in his system, forming a potential conclusion he wasn’t quite ready to face. It didn’t seem possible that a few years of knowing her, of wanting her, coupled with scant moments of physical contact could touch places inside him no other woman had ever been able to reach.
    Drake couldn’t hear the conversation between Megan and Cusack, but he knew whatever he was feeling for Megan was the least of his worries right now. He didn’t need an FBI decoder ring to know he was the primary suspect in a probable homicide.
    “Have they found anything else?”
    Drake glanced to his left as Brandon stopped beside him. “Nothing that I know of.” All around them, a team of investigators were picking through the room, looking for more evidence that had been missed last night.
    “I spoke with one of the cops in the hallway. The security cameras didn’t pick up a thing. Surveillance was set to bypass this room, the hallway, and the back door for a good forty-five minutes, shortly before the attack until several minutes after.”
    “So whoever did this knew how to work the security system, how to program it to skip certain areas for a specified time.” Drake knew it could be done, but he didn’t have a clue how to do it himself. His skill with computers was laughable at best.
    “It looks like it.” Brandon raked a hand through his graying hair. “I was at Marie’s when you called me back here.”
    “Does she know?”
    “That Paul’s death wasn’t an accident? Yes, she picked up on it from my end of the conversation with you. She went from the grieving widow to the ice bitch in a blink.” He laughed, but there was no humor in the tone. “It was pretty amazing to watch.”
    “I take it she jumped to Robert’s defense.”
    “Are you surprised?”
    “Not a bit.” Marie Colton protected her nephew at all costs, always turning a blind eye to his capriciousness.
    “Debbie was still here when I left last night. You let me out, and Paul was in here. There wasn’t anyone else in the building.”
    Drake leveled a hard glare on Brandon. “Someone was. I don’t know who. I don’t know how they got in. The back door is only accessible from the inside. What I do know is I didn’t kill him, and I doubt seriously Debbie did either.”
    How the hell he was going to prove that was an entirely different story.
     
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    “You can’t arrest him on circumstantial evidence, Jerry.” Megan kept her voice low, but her tone was unyielding.
    “A murder weapon carved with his initials is hardly circumstantial,” Cusack argued.
    Megan gritted her teeth. “It is when the knife wasn’t in his possession at the time.”
    Cusack scoffed. “So he claims.” He ticked off points on his fingers. “He was one of the only two people here at the time of the attack. You found the knife, and we’re both certain when the lab results come back they will confirm that was Paul Colton’s blood. Back that up with an autopsy that will likely reveal a stab wound in addition to the shark bite, and we have an open-and-shut murder case.”
    Megan sighed. “It’s nowhere near that simple, and you know it.” She prayed it wasn’t that simple. She was defending Drake, putting herself on the line when a part of her wasn’t sure she believed in Drake’s innocence herself.
    “What I know is I have the facts staring me in the face.”
    “And the most obvious answer is usually the wrong one. Every cop with an ounce of investigative experience knows that.” She had been telling herself that almost since the moment