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Falling for His Suspect,
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“Wait,” he replied and frowned thoughtfully. An idea blossomed in his head, an idea that might give Simone what she wanted and still keep the integrity of the investigation.
She sank back down in the chair and looked at him hopefully. God, she was so attractive. There was something about her that drew him in a very unprofessional way and that was the last thing he needed or wanted.
“I suppose if you want to come in tomorrow morning around ten, I could share with you the interviews we’ve already done with Garner,” he offered.
Immediately her eyes brightened. “Oh, thank you. That would be wonderful. Then I’ll see you at ten tomorrow.” She jumped out of her chair, murmured a goodbye and then practically ran from the room as if afraid he might change his mind.
Even though he could think of all kinds of reasons why what he’d just offered her was probably a bad idea, he only hoped it helped in some way to ease her grief and come to terms with her uncle and father’s murders.
Yes, for some inexplicable reason Simone’s grief hit him much harder than any of the other Colton family members’. It was her sad eyes that haunted his dreams, her tears that had pushed him to try harder.
If he was perfectly honest with himself, he’d admit that the reason he’d just made the concession to allow her to see some of the interview recordings was because he’d pretty much failed her. He’d failed them all.
He’d worked dozens of serial killer cases in the past. In each case he had successfully worked up accurate profiles that had led to arrests in almost all of them.
In the past two months he’d done what he’d always done...tried to profile the kind of person the killer might be. Then two weeks before, a private investigator had shone a light on two nineteen-year-old college kids, proving that all of Brad’s theories about the killer had been wrong.
He was now even more determined to prove that Jared Garner and Leo Styler had not only murdered Ernest and Alfred Colton in cold blood, but two other older businessmen as well. More than anything, he wanted to prove himself to all the Coltons, but particularly to Simone.
And that worried him. The last thing he wanted was any kind of tangled relationship with a member of the victims’ family. Besides, hopefully it was now just a matter of days before they got Leo Styler behind bars and the case would be closed.
And it was probably just a matter of days before he would be back home in DC. After two months of living in a hotel and being immersed in murder, he should be looking forward to getting back to his life in DC. It worried him just a little bit that he wasn’t.
When the case was over, he wouldn’t mind hanging out here in Chicago for a little while longer. When he tried to identify why he would want to remain, it worried him that Simone Colton’s beautiful face filled his mind.
There was no way he was going there. He was thirty-six years old and married to his work. Besides, no matter how attractive he found Simone Colton, he knew he would probably always remind her of one of the very worst times in her life.
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