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the placement of the furniture, the insides of their closets, their personal belongings. Keeping to the finite details helped the process once he got inside.
    But then the difference in locations suddenly came to him, like a fog lifted. The redhead’s townhome on Sedgwick Way didn’t have a hot tub. Confident he had the right address now, he forced his attention back to his target.
    Of the three roomies, Julie was the one overdrawn at the bank. He considered that fact for a moment longer and decided he was probably doing poor Julie a favor by putting an end to the financial struggle she’d been having for the past six months.
    He would take care of her monetary woes tonight—along with a few other things he considered essential. He certainly had that urge to take it up a notch. The timing seemed right. The stars had lined up just so. But the idea of harmony converging and him being a part of that made him chuckle. He was more into delivering chaos bordering hell than anything harmonic. Besides, the same old thing became boring after so many years.
    When Tracy’s bright yellow bug pulled into the driveway, a grin spread across his face. Oh yes. When opportunity presented itself a man would have to be an idiot not to kick in the door. Tonight, he would give the media a little something special to put on the front page of their newspapers.
    As always, he had the option of adding a different spice to the punch. It would make for an interesting night.
     

     
    There was no doubt about it. Julie Freeman’s life had taken a turn for the better. For the first time in months, she could almost see the light at the end of a dark tunnel. Okay, so maybe she was still having a few money problems. But she was employed now. She’d been trying to catch up on her bills. And she couldn’t believe her luck in the roommate department. She’d really hit the jackpot when she’d found Erica and Tracy. It wasn’t just the hot tub either, although who in their right mind would turn down a nice soak on a rare starlit summer evening like tonight? Certainly Julie Freeman recognized a good thing. Maybe it was all those years she’d struggled to catch a break back in her native Los Angeles that had her appreciating things now.
    No more worries. Things were definitely looking up.
    With her eyes closed, Julie slid farther down into the bubbling froth of the heated water. She let the stress of the day fade away. Unwinding, she moved her shoulders up and down and let her head fall back on the cement lip of the pool.
    After she’d finally made the decision to relocate from the crowded, smog-infested confines of her hometown to the much friendlier city of Seattle, she’d managed to nail down a customer service job. It wasn’t much but it had taken her almost nine tough months to find anything that paid more than minimum wage.
    Since last January there was no denying she’d had a tough time of it. But after all that, she’d found a position that at least paid her enough to cover the bills. Finding an affordable place to live had been an equally challenging ordeal. For the first three months in Seattle, she’d lived out of her car. But now she had two kickass roommates she’d found on Craigslist.
    Erica wasn’t even around all that much and when she was here in town, she spent much of her time with her long-time boyfriend. Same with Tracy, only Tracy went through men pretty fast. Sometimes it was like a revolving door and Julie had a difficult time keeping up with all of the men Tracy brought around. For the past few weeks it had been Kyle, a guy who couldn’t string two sentences together without talking about himself.
    At the rustle of leaves in the alleyway, Julie’s eyes popped open. She brought her head up to scan the darkness beyond the pool lights. Except for the soft sway of the row of tall evergreens surrounding the backyard, she saw nothing out of the ordinary.
    She settled back down in the water. It was silly to be this jumpy. But