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it. He had smelled her nervousness when she told him earlier tonight that she wanted to be the one at the termination point and not flying through the canopy on a cable. She hadn’t wanted to toss for it. She hadn’t wanted to do it period . He admired her now for giving it a go just to see if they could make a connection with the teens.
    â€œThat’s what we’ll do, then.” She was frowning, though.
    â€œWhat are you thinking?”
    â€œI’m still worried about the missing zoo cat. I hope we can catch the boys quickly, and I hope that they actually know something that will lead us to it.”
    â€œI’m going out on a limb here because I don’t really know the kids that well,” David said, “but I suspect if they believed the cat was in imminent danger, they would already have warned somebody of authority.”
    â€œYeah, but you know how teens can be. Unreliable.”
    â€œI agree. But the way they were talking in the club, how they mentioned she was safe… I got the impression they knew it for sure.”
    â€œAll right. I keep going back to the scenario of how you were following the kids. Here we are trying to chase them down, and they’re the ones making all the calls. I still want to know how they knew where we were. How your boss knew so easily where they were scheduled to be, all except their lodging. I know Martin’s got the manpower and the resources, but it seems too convenient to me.”
    â€œYou’re back to believing that this is a setup, you mean.”
    â€œYes,” she said. “That’s exactly what I was thinking. That they somehow let your boss know where they were going to be.”
    â€œIt’s possible,” David acknowledged.
    â€œI don’t believe this all has to do with fun and games,” Tammy continued. “The boys seem too smart for that. Yes, they’re playing with us, but I think they’re also afraid of a real one-on-one confrontation. They don’t know if they can trust us.”
    â€œBut I protected them from the bouncer at the shifter club.”
    â€œRight. But you’ve been following them, and you were suddenly teamed with me to track the zoo cat I’ve been looking for.”
    â€œSo without knowing why we were teamed up, maybe they thought I was called in to deal with them more harshly if they had committed a more serious crime than underage drinking, like stealing the zoo cat.”
    â€œMaybe.”
    â€œWhat if they did steal her from the Oregon Zoo?”
    She didn’t say anything for a few minutes, mulling it over. “Why would they? I checked out the exhibit where she was being housed. Plenty of space to run in. Nicely treed. Running water in a man-made creek in the enclosure. If they did, it wasn’t out of vigilante justice for an ill-treated jaguar.”
    â€œI don’t know. I’ve let Martin know what we’ve found so far,” David said.
    She smiled a little. “Did you tell him about the condoms?”
    He just grinned at her.
    She yawned. “All right. I’m exhausted. Let’s call it a night.”
    â€œGood night.” David closed his eyes, but he couldn’t stop taking in deep breaths of her jasmine soap and she-cat scent mixed into one delightful fragrance. He couldn’t ignore the beat of her heart—or his—that told him he was way too turned on, and that she was feeling the same way. He couldn’t help feeling the heat of her body and wanting to ratchet it up a few degrees, starting with a kiss.
    A kiss. Hell, he’d never gone to bed with a woman when it meant total hands off. But lips…they didn’t count, did they?
    She’d closed her eyes, but she wasn’t sleeping. She hadn’t pulled away from him, giving him her back. That meant something. Didn’t it?
    He could ask. And she could say no.
    He could kiss her, and when she got ready to slap him, he’d tell her