so sure.
Roxy smiled. “Then you’re a dead man.”
Marin wrenched and yanked at the cuffs, all the
while trying to hold his chest still. “You said you
wouldn’t kill me. You said!”
“Likeyounever tell a lie?” Roxy laughed. “Who’re
they looking for, Marin?”
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He was breathing faster, his chest rising and falling
in a frantic rhythm. “Some woman.”
“Her name?”
“They’ll kill me.”
“I’llkill you.” She scored his skin an inch above the
first cut, just deep enough to draw blood. The scent
teased her, copper sweet. He gave a choked sob.
“They’re far away,” she continued. “You can hide from
them, but not from me. Her name.”
He swallowed. “Kelley Tam.”
No. Effing. Way.
“Kelley Tam,” Roxy repeated, careful not to betray
even a flicker of emotion. “You certain?”
“Yeah. Yeah.”
“You know why they’re looking for her?”
“No.”
“You know where she is?”
He shook his head. “Nah. Couldn’t find much. Her
dad was from Jamaica. Mom from Chicago. She was
born there. Grew up there. Then disappeared, leaving
two kids behind. She pulled off one hell of a vanishing act. I couldn’t find even a breadcrumb to mark the
