Intrusion

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entertainment center had been ripped off, the contents of the cabinets strewn about her living room.
    “Oh, my God.” She pressed her hand to her mouth.
    Strong hands gripped at her arms to steady her. Cameron drew her body against the solid wall of his chest.
    “Jeez.” His whisper blew against her ear and he gave her shoulders a gentle squeeze. “Stay here. Don’t move until I get back.”
    She nodded. Her stomach heaved and her legs shook. He released her, picked his way around the living room and disappeared down the hall.
    Someone had broken into her house. Her lovely, beautiful house that she’d taken great pains to decorate in a way that radiated happy and positive vibes. Her throat constricted and her breath couldn’t find its way up from her lungs. Whoever did this had destroyed the one place she’d finally called home.
    Cameron returned, jaw rigid and brows drawn into a frown. “They hit every room. But they’re long gone.”
    She tried to nod, to respond, but spots swam in front of her vision.
    Rough hands gripped hers. “Hey, look at me.”
    The tightness in her chest squeezed itself into an iron fist. She forced her gaze to meet his and blinked his features back into focus.
    He cupped her jaw. His thumb brushed across her cheek. “Breathe. Come on, Audra, give it up.”
    A great gulp of air quivered up from her toes and rushed past her dry lips. “The cops?”
    His hand dropped away from her face. He moved farther into her living room and bent down to sift through a pile of organic chemistry texts. “No, the cops wouldn’t do this. Did anyone know you kept a copy of your research here?”
    “No. Charlie is real prickly about taking data out of the lab. But I didn’t feel comfortable with having only a single backup copy at Nanodyne.” She stepped around a pile of papers and moved to her trashed brocade sofa with its lively floral print. The cushions had been stripped. Exposed. Just like her. “It’s the one thing I kept from Charlie.”
    The slap of a book against the carpet echoed behind her. “Where?”
    “In—in that drawer.” She pointed to the cracked bookcase. “Top left.”
    He yanked it open. The empty drawer came out in his hands. “It’s long gone.” He dropped the drawer to the carpet. It hit the floor with a loud crack. “Damn it!”
    “No.” Her heart sank. “They’ve taken everything from me!”
    He grabbed the back of his neck. “You know what I don’t get? If the surveillance images caught you and I together, did they also show the security guard who was in your lab that night?”
    “You saw a security guard in my lab?” Her pulse jumped, but she forced it back to its normal rhythm with one deep breath. “He may have been caught on camera, but it wouldn’t raise any red flags. He’s paid to do rounds.”
    “Even if he was lifting fingerprints off your mug, messing with your computers and sniffing your hairbrush?”
    She turned, shock dropping her jaw. “Sniff—”
    Cam cut her off with a wave of his hand. “He had to have been after the armor.”
    Why? That seemed to be the question of the day. It clambered through her brain in an endless rhythm. Why, Why, Why?
    “But it was still in the vault when I came in.”
    He shrugged. “Then he must have gone back for it later. Could he have been tipped off about your arrival?”
    “I don’t see how. I hadn’t planned on going in.” She shook her head in confusion. “What did he look like?”
    “Black hair, bulky build, kind of a cross between Brad Pitt and Frankenstein. Ring any bells?”
    Brad Pitt and...Frankenstein?
    Tension sprouted along her temple and she reached up to rub the throbbing spot. Now that he mentioned it...
    “I...It could’ve been Joe Walker. He’s been a guard at Nanodyne since before I started there. But why would he want to steal my prototype?”
    “For the hefty sum it would acquire on the black market.”
    She frowned and caught a glint of something shiny in her peripheral

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